I can’t wholly agree.
Maybe it is due to the way my screen reader reads, without differentiation between normal text, quotes, italics and the like, but it certainly sounds like you think Progressives are the problem, if not the enemy. From what I have read, the only person who devalued the events in Charlottesville was Pres. Trump.
For myself, it is difficult to respect anti-abortion activists because so many of them either commit or condone violence. That seems hypocritical, especially to someone like myself who believes in nonviolence. Also, anti-abortion campaigners apparently think the righteousness of their cause justifies lying, as witness the faked Planned Parenthood video. To my understanding of the Gospel, these are not Christian acts. Unquestionably, they do detract from “pro-life” credibility.
At the same time, someone who, like myself, believes that abortion should be legal, as safe as possible for the pitiable woman who finds herself in the position of feeling such a dreadful step is her only remaining course, and rare is not necessarily godless. I myself am a sincere Roman Catholic, even if labeled a ‘cafeteria Catholic’ by some. Indeed, to my way of thinking, Progressive values and Christian values are one and the same.
For that reason it is very hurtful, not to say disturbing, to hear a pastor apparently equating Progressives )who in U.S. usage are on the Left) with Nazis. I hope I misunderstood; because, you and I are on the same side, the side of good, the side that deplores evil and tries to counter it in every way possible.
