"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

Do you really believe that?  I very much hope you do, because it is critical to the point Kos is trying to make - not that abortion needs to be set aside as an issue, but that it is not the only issue.

The issue of abortion is critical, yes.  However you're missing the point Kos is trying to make.  The Right is not fighting with some people over here fighting for Roberts, and some people over there fighting for prayer in public schools, and some people way over there fighting for more "tax reform."   To slightly overgeneralize, they are fighting for everything, all at once, all the time.

To restate it:  There are no unimportant fights to the Religious Right.

Every fight that progressives lose, makes the efforts of all of us that much less effective.  Every fight where different interest groups go "that's not my fight," or "my fight is more important," we ALL lose.  Every fight that they win, makes it that much easier, establishes that much more of a precedent for their next win.

This is what we as a group are not understanding. That there are no unimportant fights, and that there are no "most important" causes.  To continue to hammer those who disagree with you with rhetoric is to make enemies within your own house, and alienate your own cause by revealing a lack of empathy for the issues that others hold dear.

Other people have other priorities, and some even choose to share them.  I would submit, however, that people who treat their causes as somehow greater than all others are doing a great disservice to everyone.  Women's reproductive rights will be fought for, make no mistake.  It's part of the ideal of progressivism (and I realize not all of y'all are progressives, but this is the viewpoint from which I can speak knowledgeably), and therefore it must be included, or we are no longer what we think we are.

The mental exercise of denigrating the ideals of those who do not agree with us is one which we, no matter what our focus, have much experience at being on the receiving end of.  The fact that we are handing this treatment out to others that are our philosophical kin is unsupportably wrong, and gives great comfort to those who find our ideals repugnant.  This is not about abortion, this is not about overtime, this is not about child care, this is not about the right to organize, this is not about Social Security, this is not about freedom from religious interference in Government, and vice versa.  This is about all of those things, at once.

Find a group that you agree with, and that is NOT a supporter of one of your pet causes.  Learn about them and their arguments, and lend them a little support.  Think about it, and discover how support for this cause supports your own, and be surprised and gratified at the results. Businesses call it cross-training.  I call it unified action.  I also call it our only chance to kick these bastards in the teeth.