Oct 30, 2013
Staying at the table
http://www.theamericanmag.com/lead_stories.php?feature=law&article=4003&p=2
Voice of sanity from another U.S. ex-pat (in Italy). I understand the necessity for facing down our differences and addressing them straight-on with honesty, evidence, openness, reason.
But it is oh, so hard, especially when you're looking in the eyes of an otherwise beloved sister-in-law or son or those precious friends who've been through the valleys of hell with you... but whose values on these points, whose affiliations and loyalties, whose sympathies and emotions live in different realms than yours.