hairy_hen said:
Uh, do you really not understand that you can hate a sin and not the sinner?
I 'understand' that this is the most pathetic and laughable excuse for bigotry I've ever heard. If you can't hear the hypocrisy behind it, then you fail at life.
Take the judgemental bullsh!t somewhere else. People with actual intelligence and compassion have no use for this sort of garbage, which is completely antithetical to anything that remotely resembles what Christ ever really said, or meant.
I have no patience for this kind of rubbish, and am not interested in debating it as if it were a point of view worth granting any consideration to at all. Don't let the door hit your @$$ on the way out.
I have no patience for rubbish that addresses nothing except others' unwillingness to hear another POV. You are free to disagree with anyone who opposes homosexuality. You may make your point with force. But I am sick to death of myself and others being called hateful for often doing more loving things than the peace-loving hippies. I have dear friends who are gay. Nothing has broken my heart more than learning of the mistreatment of gays throughout history and how social stigma even in our present world has led to suicides. I hug gay friends and have discussions about their significant others. And yet, for religious reasons, I believe homosexual behavior to be wrong. Guess what? I find nearly everyone on this board to be sinful, openly engaging in sexual acts outside of marriage. I believe it is wrong. Guess what else? I don't judge you all for it. I don't condemn you for it. I don't hate you for it. I would never do it and believe you shouldn't either, but you know, that's life. Labeling someone as hateful over this sort of thing is the true hypocrisy. Yes, there are many people who are hateful, far too many, maybe even a majority of those who oppose homosexuality. But there are many good, kind-hearted people, perhaps people who simply don't understand, people who lack perspective. And there are people who try to do as Christ did. "Neither do I condemn thee. Go and sin no more." Clearly loving the sinner, while in the same breath, renouncing the sin.