Again, a sweeping generalization. I suppose that my views on individual rights and liberties would qualify me as "left." Yet I do not demand that rights be tip-toed around, just protected and respected. That includes the rights of christians. I hold neither great affection nor great animosity toward christians or any other group. Really, the only problem I have with most any group comes into play when they start trying to "legislate morality" by forcing their beliefs into my private life. It is no more anyone else's business whom I choose to marry, than it is my business whether they masturbate right- or left-handed. It just simply should be a non-issue. If it is in private, between two consenting adults, it just is not the government's (or the church's) business.

So, not all us "leftists" are out there disparaging christians. Some of us actually are practicing what we preach.