Liberal family that is very open being very judgemental with Meredith...

I think that dilemma is intentional. Even the most politically/socially "liberal" can be the most closed-minded when they encounter those who are different from them.

In my experience, the further one is on either end if the conservative-liberal spectrum, the more closed-minded one is. I think the entire family realized this, which is why they softened up in the end.

That was the point, they judged her before they really knew her and it caused the conflict. Think a lot of families do this don't they? So many in-laws misjudge and dislike their future DIL/SON because of assumptions.

I see it as bad writing.

The Stones may be described as a liberal family, but they never act like a liberal family. They prejudge others for no reason, abuse strangers invited to share their hospitality with no incentive other than causing a scene, and attack others trying to articulate an alternative point of view, no matter how imbecilic the viewpoint they are defending may be. (And a mother claiming aloud she wished all her sons had grown up gay, is about as imbecilic a viewpoint as I ever heard outside of a Marx Brothers movie.)

And then there is the mother’s undisclosed (yet thrice revealed) terminal cancer sitting like a cherry on the top. (As opposed to her daughter’s broken cherry which the mother shared conversationally as one of the movie’s many low points.)

People don’t act like this. No point is made by a writer having his characters act so unrealistically. They don’t even entertain.

I feel sorry for the audience who paid to see this dog (even sorrier for them if they enjoyed it), but I feel sorriest for the actors who wasted their time, talent and effort in bringing this dog to the screen. I hope they were all very well paid, because their satisfaction at seeing the results must be close to nil.

apparently "amy" was hard on the brothers husband at first as well because he said something about it "taking years" for her to like him

I thought they were a caricature of a Northeast liberal family, frankly. Their nitpicking over Meredith's attire extended to Everett, too, with his wearing a tie. They saw her as "corporate," so obviously she must be part of the problem.

I'm a northeasterner born and bred, and am politically left of center, and I found most of the Stones insufferable, with Sybil and Amy the worst. Dying of cancer does not exempt you from behaving like a decent human being to your son's girlfriend while she is a GUEST IN YOUR HOME, I'm sorry. The way they all stared and watched her from the window was childish and creepy.

Finally, I did understand what Meredith was saying, even though she was clumsy in the way she expressed it. The way they shouted her down was disgusting.

What? This is how the liberals all act. If you don't love everyone that's different, whether they are a terrorist or not, than they judge you. Everyone gets a trophy in their pathetic world.

Liberalism is a mental disorder. They are NOT tolerant of anyone who is not black, Mexican, Muslim, handicapped or gay or lesbian or transgender or trans- something or other. They hate anyone who is white (even if they are), heterosexual (even if they are) and born IN America (even if they were). Frightening.