Are you looking for kinder, gentler? I have been there. I have tried that.
Nothing for it but culture war, in my opinion.
Ah, I remember that. George Herbert Walker Bush.
Was it he, or Bush the Younger, who had been into pagan rituals in college? Or both?
Try to do kinder and gentler, but DON’T do it in the name of the God of Israel and of Christians, but rather in the name of some hypothetical god, and yes! It will be a flop!
To refer to this as a counter example to a godly application of the principles, is simply to stumble over a silly straw man.
Once God has your back, then you can dare to be kinder and gentler (as the bible says, meek, even if the Harley ads claim they don’t inherit anything).