Can you be a liberal without conforming to the standard of political rectitude?

I call myself a liberal because I fall on the traditionally liberal side of most political issues (and I am defining this by a US standard of liberalism).

I support multiculturalism. I believe that religious minorities should be protected. I believe racial minorities, particularly African-American young men, face unfair treatment by police and the justice system and that this should be reformed. I support abortion rights. I believe in immigrant rights and want a pathway to citizenship for people here illegally now. I support gun control and a single payer healthcare system.

That doesn't seem to be good enough to the in-crowd here, who have on several threads here pointed out angrily that I am not really a liberal Sure... there are a couple of places where I disagree with liberal orthodoxy, particularly where I believe that feminism has gone too far.

The truth is that I don't really care. I apply the label "liberal" to myself as a shorthand. I don't see it as carrying any obligation. I amuses me that Setanta, Izzy and all see it as some sort of defining label that demands lockstep conformity. I respect people who consider each issue independently rather than boxing themselves in to an ideology.

Of course, the interesting case is Free Speech. Traditionally, liberals were the champions of Free Speech. Somehow that has gotten all twisted around. Go figure.