This is the issue. But that is a religious one, not a work-related one. We don’t generally fire people because they are sleeping with their girlfriends. Heck, we didn’t fire the President for sleeping with an intern.
And I haven’t seen people looking to inflict punishment in this world for all the people taking the Lord’s name in vain, even though that is one of the 10 commandments.
We are all sinners. There are Christians who are sadly living in a state of perpetual sin, sometimes willfully, sometimes unwittingly, but they need repentance and forgiveness at least to repair their relationship with God.
I am a heterosexual. If I wasn’t married, I would still be a heterosexual, but I would not be having sex. Is it possible that a person could feel they were a homosexual, but not be committing the sin of gay sex acts? I am agnostic on whether merely BEING “homosexual” is a sin, as opposed to acting out on those feelings.
I don’t have any delusion though that most people who would announce they were “gay” would also be having gay sex.
Then you have the issue of gays who get married, and who are members of supposedly Christian churches where being gay is not considered a sin. I believe it is a sin, but won’t those people be surprised, given that their actual religious teaching from those who are tasked with bringing them to the light is telling them that they have fulfilled the requirements of God, only to find out I believe that they have lived in continual sin?
Frankly, I believe RG3 had to do this, because he’s a young guy who, by professing his personal religious belief, and his opposition to gay marriage, he has become an embattled target. He’s looking to make his life easier, and sure fault him for it if you like, but it makes sense to me. He’s expressing an opinion that, in this world, gay people exist, and are largely accepted, and in many cases are protected in their employment, and some football players certainly identify as gay, and now is certainly a good time for such people to identify themselves if that is what they wanted to do.
I’d have a different message, but it would not be helpful. Now is a good time for Gay people to identify themselves to their pastors, so they can get counseling on how to repent and with God’s help live a righteous life. Of course, when people are being discriminated against simply because they STOPPED BEING GAY, that is a hard message to tell people.
Imagine that. If I were gay, and got counseling against the power of the state and the counseling community (which denies such counseling should even exist), and was able to cure or control my attraction, and lead a normal life, I will face discrimination by government entities and private organizations, and no law will protect me from that discrimination.
Yes, I won’t quibble a lot about words which can be used colloquially to mean different things.
A “gay Christian” (actually a Christian who has lapsed into homosexual behavior) SHOULD ideally be able to get pastoral help that contains copious, strong amounts of the gospel of YES. Not “YES keep on doing that” but “YES let’s get your faculties which you had been offering to demons under Christ’s lordship and do NOT put a limit on what Christ can do once the battle is over.”