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@Curiosity
“Being a kofer is against halacha – thus being a liberal, as defined colloquially, is against halacha.”

Your conclusion suffers from the faulty Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc premise: after this, therefore because of this.

I am a Liberal, therefore I am Kofer and against Halacha.
Not every Liberal agrees with the items you post. There is no Liberal manifesto to which all Liberals subscribe. These items you call ideals, are not considered ideals by all who call themselves Liberal.
I am far more Liberal in terms of Civil and economic rights than abortion and Toeiva.
I was a Justice of the Peace until 2018, I never performed a Toeiva wedding ceremony and CT courts do not compel us to do so. I also never performed an intermarriage between a known (to me) Jew and an non-Jew. The few marriages I performed over the years with non-Jew to non-Jew, usually one participant having been a Catholic who had been divorced and was not free to marry again within the church.