Since your quite vocal on people's individual rights, e.g a woman's right to dress how she pleases.
Why choose a conservative grouping to try and make friends with?

Is this a pattern? Do you often try to assimilate into groups with oppositional views to your own?

Do you find yourself at loggerheads and then decide there's something wrong with either you or them because you can't meet in the middle? Or compromise?

Or is this bible study thing a one off?