The people you like and/or respect and/or admire might make wrong decisions, have bad opinons or stances, or even do something bad, and it doesn't mean that you have to agree with them, follow what they have done, or defend them, and it's not wrong to point it out, and it also doesn't mean that you have to cut them off or stop liking/respecting/admiring them.
Focus on the topic, do what you think is right with it, unaffected by the people around the topic, be it friends/family/etc and how it may affect them, and carry on.
Reitirating, be it friend or foe, god or the devil, take what's useful to from all to help you reach what you'd think is right and cast away all other elements unrelated to the topic (the idea, the problem, the solution, etc).