Be part of the solution rather than part of the problem. When you disagree, whether it is a person, a position, a law, a practice, or anything else, it is irresponsible and immature to stand on the sidelines and protest, shout, pout, cast aspersions, or denigrate. Any time you disagree, FIRST sit down and think it through. If you think about it for a bit, you will find that you can have a difference of opinion with less chance of harming that relationship, than if you go in “hot”. A mature and responsible person pauses to think before speaking, AND presents a solution or an alternative along with their opposition. Most “hot topics” would disappear if this was common practice. For example: if you are anti-abortion, work on ways that prevent the pregnancy in the first place, like cherishing yourself and your future spouse and practicing abstinence. It is 100% effective at preventing pregnancy and STD’s. Think of it and teach it in the positive; as a gift, rather than as a restriction or prohibition. Tend to the unwanted, uncherished, and mistreated people -- foster care, adoption, shelters, even anti-bullying. Talk is cheap. DO something. Work to make the thing you disagree with disappear. Returning to the example: the solution to abortion is not banning it, it’s making it irrelevant. If you can’t present a solution to a difference of opinion, keep your mouth shut until you can!