This is a right-wing conservative trait in general. We've been a "progressive" society for as long as everyone on this planet has been alive, and the only "sin" we acknowledge is the refusal to "progress". Which means you have to apologize for not going along with whatever the "progressive" cause of the day is.

"Conservatives" inhabit that frame and therefore are subject to those rules. Fortunately we seem to do a bit better here.