No Common Ground?

I belong to a few email groups. For the most part, they are Christian Bass-playing groups. As with any US Christian group, you get a preponderance of politically conservative people on the lists. I get, being the Christian Leftist that I am, some Left-leaning newsletters. Sojourners posted one the other day that I loved. It is here: http://go.sojo.net/ct/01_fv7s1bzdE/.

Now I found nothing either Left-leaning or even particularly political about this article. In fact, the writer is just what he says he is. Leaning left on some issues, right on others. And this was an amazingly insightful way of seeing Jesus as the bridge between Right and Left so that we could find common ground.

So I posted this link to one of my Christian Bass email lists. And it was immediately squelched by the right-leaning moderator of the list. I was hurt at first, since I didn't mean to put political leanings on the list (which are forbidden), but then baffled. What could possibly be controversial about finding common ground between left and right? Wouldn't that actually help the country, and even the church. Isn't there some kind of common ground we could agree on. And actually, we do. I got a similar private response from another conservative friend. Both the same. Something to the affect of "it was asking me to agree with gay rights". Read the article. It isn't saying that at all. It doesn't take a stand.

Which leads me to wonder...do conservatives not want to find common ground with liberals? Is the mere mention of common ground between people a "liberal" stance? Is there no room at all for conversation between 2 sides?

This troubles me greatly. I do not agree with my conservative brethren most of the time. But there are things on which I can agree. And I can be friends with those who don't agree with me. And I can even listen to their point of view. I would WANT to find common ground. That seems the Christian thing to do.

Sometimes I just don't understand which bible Christians read.....