hm. my mom's sort of the same way, about tattoos and homosexuality both. she's a little more lenient about it, though, in that she (mostly) realizes i don't share her views and that's not the end of the world. she still sends me "get right with god" chain mails though, which annoys the shit out of me. but i guess that's why they invented the delete button.

i dunno. i've always tried to be pretty tolerant of people - just because they don't agree with me doesn't make them wrong. even in cases like that, where their beliefs really piss me off for the most part. unless they directly have an impact on myself or someone i care about, i generally just try to let it go. and vent my frustration with the shortcomings and failures of the human race in ways other than lecturing people about their empty fucking heads. which, translated to simpler terms, means: i drink a lot and try not to beat the shit out of people

yeah. i'm sure that's healthy as hell.