"Sometimes around here I get flamed for believing that. Yet I still do. I'm stubborn."
Good for you. I happen to believe, as you seem to, that respect for our fellow man does not require that we agree all the time. It makes me happy when someone shares the same principles, but is not a requirement for their existance on this planet.
Well, as Dennis Prager so eloquently puts it: "Clarity over agreement." And to put it not so eloquently...it's a free country.