My family comes from a very tradition values system, so there isn't my room for my 'free' thought around most of them. Now some would disagree that the folks are very tolerant to new ideas, but it also must be said that to change their opinion on any array of topics, they are "pretty set in their ways"... Conservative, Christian, fundamentalist, family values, pro-life, pro-church, fag-bashing, right to lifers, and on and on. So there aren't terrible things in that, just sometime, {almost always] they take it to the extreme.