As a Conservative/Christian-Come-Lately I’ve had to reconcile what I know firsthand to be wrong with the “other” side with what I observe to be wrong with my own. Here is what I see: We claim to love the sinner and hate the sin, but the problem of homosexuality and its destructive effects within our society has surely made it a challenge. Still, it can’t be right for Christianity to be pitted against homosexuality as though it were the worst sin on parade.Barbara Curtis
For me, its all about the smoking analogy: My brother is a smoker. I love my brother. I encourage my children to love my brother. However, we’ve talked about the fact that no one is perfect and that people sometimes make wrong choices. That doesn’t make them bad people. It makes them sinners. We are ALL sinners. My brother is good. Smoking is bad. My kids get it. Smoking. Homosexuality. Sinners are sinners. But, don’t take up smoking.
On a side-note, perhaps one reason that homosexuality is such a seemingly bigger target than some other sins is that homosexuals don’t recognize it as “bad” while my brother definitely recognizes smoking as “bad”. Just a thought.
I agree with Lucy. It is possible to hate the sin, but love the sinner. That is why we try to turn them from there sinful ways.
The part of original quote that caught my eye was, “as though it were the worst sin on parade”.
Sin is sin. We may not always treat all sin eaqually like we should, but I hadly believe that we treat this wose then say rape or murder. And if they don’t want us to think of it as “sin on parade”, should they really be haveing so many gay pride parades?
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