More and More an Outcast, I Feel!!!

So, I know my title here makes me sound like Yoda, but here's my point. While at my clinical rotation for nursing yesterday, I made a comment about how a company put something on their chip bag about buying energy credits. I basically said it was a farce (which it is). Little did I know what a stir that would cause. I was confronted and what I would call attacked on every side. There were 7 other student nurses there and my instructor. I felt demonised for not buying into the garbage fed to us by Al Gore and his cronies. My clinical instructor from what I can tell called me an idiot (she denies it) and not one person agreed with me. I must say they got the best of me and I ended up calling somebody else an idiot as well. I felt like such an outcast and that I was being attacked on every front. I felt like they were trying to silence me, the opposition. I think that is something Jonah Goldberg was talking about in his book, "Liberal Fascism". For me it is hard enough going into nursing being a man, but then to add conservative values on top of that is even harder. In the beginning of the semester I was harassed about my wife and I having 4 children. I was told to get a hobby among other interesting things that don't need to be repeated. I remember telling somebody a couple weeks ago how I still believe in the goodness of people and how there was still so much hope. The more I am confronted with the "weirdness" of people I talk to, the less hope I have. I fear that we are entering an age when it is going to get extremely hard to be somebody with conservative values and even a belief in God. Maybe the hearts of men are failing them. I pray that is not the case and I hope I can reach out and love others in spite of our differences. I feel like I try to do that on a daily basis. I hope that I have left that impression on most people I encounter. If that is not the case then I am deeply sorry and will try to show my love for my brothers and sisters more fully. However that does not override the fact that some things cannot be compromised. There is no grey line with good and evil. It is black and white. I know that we have a loving Father in Heaven who loves all his children, but even he cannot tolerate wickedness. He wants us all to be free to choose to be good for ourselves. That is the only way we will learn and grow. Let it be known, that I have my own faults (many in fact), and I am beyond grateful for my Savior who has given me the chance to repent and be clean in spite of those weaknesses. I pray for the strength to be a better example in ALL that I do and say. I apologize ahead of time for a different kind of post on our family blog, but I just wanted my thoughts about life and recent events to be on record.