socially liberal   The article states Bush held many positions that would today be considered socially liberal He was involved with the American Birth Control League as early as  and served as the treasurer of the first national capital campaign of Planned Parenthood in  Bush was also an early supporter of the United Negro College Fund serving as chairman of the Connecticut branch in  italics added  Looking specifically at that would today be considered socially liberal this is ambiguous in its meaning and appears to be OR anyway Is the reader meant to infer that Bush was socially liberal for a republican or that republicans were more socially liberal then  I am removing the first sentence because of the OR nature and ambiguity but if the idea behind it can be clarified and supported by a citation or two it would be worth exploring a little further