If your evaluation were right, perhaps I'd agree. But you're a little off.
I think "Love the sinner, hate the sin" is an emotional over-simplification. Yet, still, when I say
or queer, or
gotry, I am, indeed, referring specifically to the commission of the perverse sex acts. You'll recall from various threads that I make a distinction, as does the Bible, between the temptation, which is not a sin, and the act, which is. I've said repeatedly that I can respect a guy who, though he has temptations, stands strong in the face of them and refuses to sin. He's fighting a great battle and will be rewarded in heaven.
I knew such a guy in the Air Force. He was effeminate. Very effeminate. Nobody knew how he got through basic training, because homosexuals were unceremoniously tossed and given the proverbial Bad Chicken Dinner. But I guess it was a matter of what you know vs. what you can prove because there he was.
He also hung around the same church groups that I did. He was Assembly of God, iirc, while I was a baptist, but the groups I was in were a bit eclectic.
One day, due to some shortcomings unrelated to his peculiarities, he was discharged, a general, I think. He found himself on the street, no money to speak of, nowhere to go. An officer who taught Bible study at my church took him in to help him get back on his feet. Had the Air Force found out about that, there would have been trouble.
It was only after he moved I'm there that some trouble came to light. He had a pair of high heeled shoes that he kept very prominently among his things. When asked, he said they were props in a play he had been in. Nobody believed out, and he would occasionally wear them. Then there was the gay porn found among his belongings.
Anyway, I'm sorry about the temptations he faced. I don't know if his effeminacy was due to a birth defect, or the domineering mother-absent or weak father theory, or what, but he wasn't normal. His predilection was obvious to everybody. Everybody. But having a birth defect isn't a sin. Homosexual sex is, and whether or not one engages in homosexual acts certainly is a choice.
So my use of words like
or
gotry isn't to denigrate somebody with the temptations this guy faced, which were apparently horrible. I didn't hate the poor kid. The sexual urge is strong and he had a horrible temptation. But the act is even more horrible, but we've got a huge segment of the population closing their eyes to it.
s became "gay," and now even fairly conservative people are thinking they're just like us and should marry. So "
" and "queer" is a bit of pushback, and that's why I post about such things a lot, and why I use terms like "committing homosexual perversion" -- emphasizing the act. I see our country in deep trouble, and I'm trying to paddle the other way as fast as I can.
I'm not optimistic, though. Did you see the recent premiere of the reality show called Forever Young? They take 5 young people and put them in a house with 5 seniors over 70 and watch the culture clash. One of the youngsters, a cute little thing, actually, revealed that she's a lesbian and is having trouble telling her mother. Now you wouldn't think the oldsters would be very sympathetic, and there could be some creative editing going on, but it appeared that none of the oldsters, all over 70, had any sort of objection to her lifestyle. If that group was all ok with it, we're in deep trouble.
If you are going to be self righteous, probably need to look at the whole picture and look at who you are actually hating. Might be surprised?