“The main site always took a far more liberal POV in both the content of the articles as well as in the approved comments.”
In the religious sense, definitely. I wonder if there’s a discrepancy between the readers of the home page and the users of the CR too. Maybe the silent majority of readers fall in line with the bias of the homepage more so than that of the CR, which is swayed by a relatively small number of overly-active posters such as myself and Joseph.