@skeeter:
Great advice... but I really want to tell my cousins and my best friends, the ones who I think will have the best chance of listening to me, the ones who are really hurting because of WT policies. My family will go ballistic! I have around 30 cousins, aunties, etc on my mom's side who will be absolutely shocked...
She seems very calm about things... no shunning, no nothing.
I think blocking out the elders is a great idea, but it will be very hard. I am living in their house, so I can't tell the elders off... If they come, I can't ask them to leave... I can at most just tell my parents to tell them that I don't want to meet... but my mom will force the issue and will force me to meet with them... that or I leave the house... which won't be good.
Dad vaccilates between knowing I am right and wanting to please my mom still... It's been tough on him.
She's the type that reasoning is not really possible, except for microseconds.
About the e-mails: Are you saying I should call them over the phone? I guess that is a good idea...