No, I don't have it backwards. Of course hurting innocents, like rapists and murderers, are worse than sexual sins that do not involve coercing innocents. But people who gossip, in my Bible a sin akin to murder (which I don't like because I sinfully gossip sometimes!!! But I need to accept how heinous the sin of gossip is to G-d), don't see themselves as sinning usually, nor do the people who sleep around. If you pick up someone in a bar and sleep with them, they might have been married - you might not know. Then there are thieves who do not consider themselves thieves. Lots of them. Tax evasion, borrowing from the company's till, etc. PLENTY of big sinners will call names to gays but not call themselves out. You know this.
It's because hearing about someone sticking their fingers into the company's books is not abhorrent like hearing about someone sticking his fingers into, well, I will leave this unfinished! The yuck factor makes some Christians think they are morally superior.
As a Christian, what is your dearest loving goal for these people? I ask because these are people, on this planet, who have now been told for 20 or so years that they are OK just the way they are. And so they attempt to live a gay lifestyle, with the acceptance of the masses. That is just the way things are now, due to pop culture (and the ideas in the original article above). And now you guys come along and CONDEMN CONDEMN CONDEMN, which makes them hate Christianity and turn from it.
How is that Christian? Sorry, I just don't get it. Didn't Jesus spend time with the people the haughty Jews would dismiss and despise? Don't you guys want to be like him? He did not insist they give up whoring before he gave them love.
Jesus spent time with sinners because everyone who has ever drawn a breath is a sinner. You are yet another of these people who say "Jesus spent time with sinners" as if to say He validated their sin. Again: ALL have sinned and come short of the glory of God. That includes homosexuals. If homosexuals are not sinners (and the Bible is clear that they are); then no one is a sinner, and Jesus is irrelevant if there is no sin and people do not need to be saved from sin.
You are correct that gossiping is a sin. Sure, people may do it and not take it too seriously. However, they do not celebrate it and ask for universal acceptance of their sin. Homosexuals do.