Thank you all for your comments, insights, and challenges on Love the Sinner. I ended up tying in James 2 and the relationship between taking a look at someone and deciding either to show them honor or disdain and how we have treated homosexuals as people.
It was a powerful evening at our progressive worship service W.E.L.D. After the message we had a drama where we built a sanctuary on the stage into which three characters entered and sat through a worship service while their pre-recorded thoughts were played over the PA (a middle-aged man, college-aged woman, and a college-aged man each dealing with their sexual identity, connection to Jesus, and earnest desire for Christian love and compassion). Finally, a young man in the church shared his on-going experience with his lesbian mother and her wife.
Discussion Question: I have argued for a very gracious view toward homosexuals and, in some ways, even toward the homosexual political movement. Given the seeming inevitability of homosexual marriage within the next decade or so, how should we prepare for that day? Should we hasten it or try to delay it? Do we expect any fallout to come with it? What will we have to do differently then that we might as well start doing now? Anything?
This is especially true with homosexuals where an action that many Christians believe is sinful has, in an über-existentialist sorta way, become the very identity of 2-10% of our population (please don’t take this statement pejoratively). On top of that, it has become the very center of modern civil rights activism. And looking down the road 5, 10, 20 years, who wants to be remembered the way that we, in our post-racist generation, look at George Wallace when he stood against integration and racial equality?
