Why do colleges and universities seem so liberal?

I just started college a couple of weeks ago and I love it; I've made some cool friends, joined some interesting clubs, and obviously attended cl, and studied. Overall, I think it is a much better experience than high school. However, what I don't like is that my university (and many others) seem so liberal politically. For instance, when filling out some paperwork on orientation, they had asked for my gender. The options they gave me were male, female, trans-gender, or other. Needles to say, I was beyond angry over it; God created man and woman, man created trans gender and this "other" category. Further, the school (which is a state school by the way) doesn't seem to recognize government holidays but has no problem in giving us off for Jewish holidays. My school does not give us off on Election Day, Veterans Day, nor Columbus Day. I'm a Catholic and have gone to Catholic school my entire life so not having holidays like the Immaculate Conception off is a new experience for me. However, I'm not asking for Christian holidays off, I'm only asking that the STATE SCHOOLS recognize GOVERNMENT holidays rather than religious ones. Like it or not, Americans share one religion: the religion of democracy and faith in out democratic government. That is what we as Americans should be celebrating universally. Why should we be given a vacation for holidays of a minority religion rather than for government holidays. Did I mention that this is a STATE SCHOOL? To further add to my distaste, I was looking for the campus dining office to resolve an unrelated issue when I walked ped the school mosque and what they called the "inter-religious chapel" or something like that. Why should the Muslims (who attacked this country) get their own place of worship in a school that should be abiding by the constitutional mandate of "separation of church and state" while every other religion is crammed into this smaller "inter-religious" chapel? Not to mention the school seems to be obsessed with "diversity;" obviously they used a status quo to maintain such diversity. Anyway, I could continue ranting, but I'd be here for hours, so I'll let the Yahoo Answers community take it from here.