Was that a merely cynical attempt by political liberals and conservatives to hide behind a generally admired figure?

My only quibble is that he does not mention political liberals who are also devout Christians.

Indeed, many who are orthodox are also political liberals.

Hollin Hills is known for attracting artists, politicians, and political liberals.

Those factors were important to the environmental school of behavior, whose adherents are generally political liberals.

On the other side, we have political liberals who think marijuana should be legal, hospitals free and cats afforded basic human rights.

And yet many people do-most of them political liberals.

Both were erstwhile political liberals but they now insisted on getting back to 'basics'.

In general though, college graduates and political or religious liberals appear to be somewhat less civil religious.