I left Oregon when it was growing in liberalism in the early 70's.   I have found it surprising that liberals often cut short converstation or expect passive acceptance.   This from a generation that took on the military industry comples over the Vietnam war, that experimented with all kinds of drugs and all kinds of difference relationships, sexual and non sexual?

How did value of free speech get flipped to what some people now call 'appropriate' speech?   Best I can tell is that apparently that kind arrogance that comes with power.

The only thing we would probably have intractable disagreement on is that I would never let my children go to a school that uses religious text in place of science.  It's not that I mind that others have a different opinion and I have dozens of Christians friends who chose to believe the creation myth.   But it not central to my Christian beliefs, nor is the denial of rational thought a part of my theology.   That doesn't make us enemies.