“If you base your self-image of yourself as a good person on your fight against injustice, if there is no major injustice around you’re forced to elevate minor injustices to such status.”
Outstanding insight. That is what the author was saying. Progressives want to have a cause bigger than themselves and which make them feel important and good about themselves and morally superior to others. Since they have rejected god and Christianity, they have to search for something else, like gay rights, global warming, abortion rights, etc.
Right. The civil rights movement of the 60s was the last major issue on which the Left was indisputably on the right side.
That’s why the issue du jour is always the “civil rights issue of our time.” Doesn’t matter how little it has in common with actual civil rights.