I don't think it's right, but it's their own lives to live.
The problem is, if I know you have an abnormal sexual orientation, you're not keeping it to yourself. You're shoving it in my face.
And I'm not talking about the chance passing in a grocery store holding hands. That's an observation and a deduction. If I KNOW it's because they go around MAKING CERTAIN that everyone knows. It can't just be a preference, it has to be an identity. Because they're never content with themselves as people without it.
I agree with that. It's not always fair or pleasant, but social stigmas serve an important purpose. They keep the damage that the mentally ill can do to the fabric of society (and to themselves) in check.
The example of Jesus is the wise approach. He was personally compassionate and generous with people who lived in sin, but he did not reject the Law or the social obligations we all have to one another.
He readily forgave people for sexual sin, but also called them out on it and warned them to repent. He publicly condemned the Pharisees for hypocrisy, but told people to obey their teachings. He did not bow to the authority of Rome, but he advocated paying your taxes.
Pure permissiveness is not wise or even compassionate because it leaves people lost and immersed in their sin with no way back; it just opens the door to more perversity.
Gays are just fine, look at Grenell for example. It's faggots I hate.
I don't think it's right, but it's their own lives to live.
The problem is, if I know you have an abnormal sexual orientation, you're not keeping it to yourself. You're shoving it in my face.
And I'm not talking about the chance passing in a grocery store holding hands. That's an observation and a deduction. If I KNOW it's because they go around MAKING CERTAIN that everyone knows. It can't just be a preference, it has to be an identity. Because they're never content with themselves as people without it.
That attitude is how we got here.
I agree with that. It's not always fair or pleasant, but social stigmas serve an important purpose. They keep the damage that the mentally ill can do to the fabric of society (and to themselves) in check.
The example of Jesus is the wise approach. He was personally compassionate and generous with people who lived in sin, but he did not reject the Law or the social obligations we all have to one another.
He readily forgave people for sexual sin, but also called them out on it and warned them to repent. He publicly condemned the Pharisees for hypocrisy, but told people to obey their teachings. He did not bow to the authority of Rome, but he advocated paying your taxes.
Pure permissiveness is not wise or even compassionate because it leaves people lost and immersed in their sin with no way back; it just opens the door to more perversity.