And I am becoming convinced that certain things claimed in the Coffee Room as “halachic positions” are actually untenable from the point of view of Orthodox halacha. But that is neither here nor there.
Abelleh, a main tenet of modern Western thought is pursuit of truth, intellectual vigor and the open analysis of ideas, not the stifling of ideas because it might offend those who don’t understand the process of questioning and examining. Ahavas chinam means loving each and every Jew as a child of G-d, not accepting beliefs which are in contradistinction to your own. The gemara in Yevamos (13b, iirc) makes it clear that the talmidim of Beis Shammai and Beis Hillel would respect each other’s beliefs, and let them know which of their children would be incompatible based on the others’ beliefs. Let the debates continue.