As I said in personal apology a few posts below:

I do care about others' opinions, in the sense I don't want to offend anyone, especially of my "A's Brethren", due to rudeness or impoliteness etc.  Maybe I stated my view too strongly.

What I don't think is wise, though, is to automatically interpret difference in political philosophy as closed-mindedness per se.

The Right also views the Left with the same suspicion as you expressed here.  Conservatives feel that unelected left-leaning judges, activist judges, tend to usurp the legislative branch of government to impose their social agenda on the people against their will.

For example, polls show that the majority of people still oppose Gay Marriage.  Even Giuliani, whom you mentioned, favored Civil Unions but he did not go so far as to support radically changing the traditional understanding of the institution of marriage.  And the Governator {Schwarzenegger} also opposes Gay Marriage.

I do not think that makes Conservatives automatically closed-minded on social issues.  It just makes them "different" from you.  Not everyone accepts that homosexuality is genetically based.  People differ from you on social issues, it does not make them bigoted or closed, just different.

One thing that I have felt is intolerant or "closed" on the Left is their hostility to religion and to its free expression.  I think it is dangerous.  One pastor in Sweden was arrested simply for quoting the bible from his pulpit concerning the moral stance that his scriptures take concerning homosexuality.

That I find downright dangerous.  I hope we never reach the point in this country where the Left has so taken over the debate of social issues to the point where we have no religious freedom to express differing points of view on moral and social issues.  

You may not like what a pastor preaches from his pulpit, say, if he thinks certain behavior is sinful, but he darn well has every right to say it and God help us in this country if we ever reach a point where religious leaders can be arrested simply for preaching their convictions ..

You might call it bigotry, closed-mindedness, intolerance -- I call it freedom, protected speech.  The whole point of free speech is that someone can say things that you may strongly dislike but they still have the right to say them.  The whole point of religious freedom is that someone can believe things that you may deeply, profoundly differ with -- but that is their right.

I am not talking about proclamation or practice of violence as in the case of the extreme {distorted} form of radical Islam.  I am talking about, for example, the redemptive message of the Christian Gospel.  A pastor's goal in preaching such gospel is to proclaim what he intends as a redemptive message.  So long as he is not advocating violence, but rather redemption, he has the right to call homosexuality "sin" even if you profoundly differ with him and think it is wrong.

The so-called "religious right", and conservatives in general, don't want the Left imposing their values on them. That is what bothers me about Political Correctness, and yes it mainly deals with speech that offends the Left.  Honestly those on the Right view the extreme Left with the same suspicion and fear that you are expressing here.  It works both ways .. Conservatives fear impingement upon freedom {of religion/speech} from the radical Left just as much, or more, as the fear of the Right that you express here ..

Not just Christians, I could have as well said Orthodox Jews, or anyone who takes their scriptures seriously -- have problems with the Left and the tendencies to label them, say,  Homophobic Bigots, just because they have moral and religious convictions that may differ .. To label anyone who may have personal moral or religious convictions on these issues, for example, as Homophobic Bigots -- well it is your freedom to do so but it is also dangerous and I dare say, just as closed-minded as the opposite extreme ..

Take Care, and I do hope we can soon return to talking about the A's and baseball and lighthearted things we all agree on my friend ..

My Brother in Green & Gold,
Warmly, Ran