Many believe it is impossible to be a liberal as well as a Christian.  I, however, see it JUST  the opposite.  For me the question is, "How can one be a Christian and NOT be a liberal?"

ZACCAEUS:

Remember the story of Zachaeus, who climbed into a sycamore tree to watch Jesus pass by.   According to chapter 19 of the Gospel of Luke,  he was a superintendent of customs; a chief tax-gatherer (Latin: publicanus) at Jericho (Luke 19:1-10). Tax collectors were hated by many of their fellow Jews, who saw them as traitors for working for the Roman Empire.
Because the lucrative production and export of balsam was centered in Jericho, his position would have carried both importance and wealth.^[2][3]
In the account, he arrived before the crowd who were later to meet with Jesus, who was passing through Jericho on his way to Jerusalem. Described as a short man, then Zacchaeus climbed up a sycamore fig tree so that he might be able to see Jesus. When Jesus reached the spot
he looked up into the branches, addressed Zacchaeus by name, and told
him to come down, for he intended to visit his house. The crowd was
shocked that Jesus, a Jew, would sully himself by being a guest of a tax collector.
Moved by the audacity of Jesus's undeserved love and acceptance,
Zacchaeus publicly repented of acts of corruption and vowed to make restitution for them, and held a feast at his house.
But the point of the story is not so much that Zacchaeus repented, but that Jesus in his humanity singled out one of  the most reviled people in Jerico as his host for the evening.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zacchaeus)
THE WOMAN AT THE WELL:

Then, there's the story of the woman by the well.  First of all she was a Samaritan, detested by Jews because they practiced a corrupted version of the Jewish law. Secondly, she had been married five times and currently was living with a man to whom she was not wed.

It was high noon on a hot day. Jesus, tired from
traveling, chose a sensible rest stop—Jacob's well outside the town of
Sychar—while waiting for his disciples to go into town for food. When
our unnamed woman appeared with clay jar in hand, Jesus made a simple
request: "Will you give me a drink?" (John 4:7).

Uh-oh. (1) Jews weren't supposed to speak to Samaritans.
(2) Men weren't permitted to address women without their husbands
present. And (3) rabbis had no business speaking to shady ladies such as
this one. Jesus was willing to toss out the rules, but our woman at the
well wasn't. "You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman," she reminded
him. "How can you ask me for a drink?" (John 4:9).

Jesus told her, "Go, call your husband and come back"
(John 4:16). Not an odd request, since women couldn't converse alone
with a man in a public place. But Jesus' request was more about
uncovering truth than about following society's rules.

When she confessed, "I have no husband" (John 4:17),
Jesus affirmed her answer, then gently exposed her sin: "The fact is,
you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your
husband" (John 4:18).

Five marriages didn't make her a sinner. Due to warfare,
famine, disease, and injury, men in those days dropped like flies. A
widow became either a beggar, a prostitute, or another man's wife. Each
time, this Samaritan woman had chosen the best option.

But sharing her bed with a sixth man who wasn't her husband? That was a sin.

Again, Jesus chose to speak with someone his fellow Jews would not have because of their prejudice against Samaritans and a woman alone at the well.
(b)(https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+4&)version=NIV

OTHER EXAMPLES:

And who can forget Mary Magdalene, a prostitute, who become beloved of Jesus second only to his love for his mother, or James and John, simple fishermen--two of the disciples, in all probability illiterate.  Makes one wonder how they could speak and write so eloquently, doesn't it?  Then, there was yet another disciple, Matthew, also a tax collector, or Paul, who originally persecuted Christians and later referred to himself as chief among all sinners..

Gosh!  I just can't see any of these people being conservative.

Finally, I remember Jesus admonishing his disciples, also in John, when he stated, "I come to save the world, not to judge it."