The Trans Movement Just Hit Home.......

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(05-05-2023, 12:29 AM)michaelsean Wrote: But the same person could very well have been in favor on one and opposed to another. So are they they the progressives or the conservatives?  An abolitionist during the Civil War would almost certainly identify with the religious right.  The whole abolitionist movement was based on religion and the Second Great Awakening

Progressive or conservative can only be judged relative to the time and culture. In the Civil War times, there were relatively few people who would not identify as religious in some way simply because that was the norm of the time. But abolitionists were unambiguously progressive (a person working towards implementing some sort of social reform, generally aimed toward equity among different groups of people) in the very least in regards to the topic of slavery.

Progressives in the civil rights era were likely just as homophobic as the conservatives in that same era. The people are flawed, but the momentum of society, at least in America and similar first world countries, has generally been shifting left for hundreds of years.