When people refused to repent after Jesus confronted them on their willful sin, he didn't dismiss it and say, "oh, well. Let's go hang out together anyway." He let the rich young ruler wallow, alone, in his dilemma, moving on to others willing to meet his conditions. His encounter with the Samaritan woman at the well leaves no impression that she continued to be promiscuous and adulterous. It is evidenced that anyone whom Jesus contacted and continued in fellowship with was changed. It was the unrepentant, unchanged ones that broke fellowship with Him. "...what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?"
No, Christ was NOT an ongoing friend with the unrepentant.
Never said He was, but He didn’t just give up on them either. He didn’t say that there were certain people He didn’t want as follewers because of their sins. Why are we saying there are certain people we don’t want in our party because of their sins?
We shpuld not compromise our principles to attract gays. However, there is a subset of the gay population that votes with us even though we oppose the gay agenda. If they’re not agitating for us to accept the gay agenda, why should we drive them away? They are implicitly supporting conservative principles at a societal level even if they are not doing so on a personal level.
Besides, do you really think Jesus asked sinners to repent once and then gave up if they refused? If a sinner initially refused to repent, but later realized his error, did Jesus say “Nope, too late, you had your chance and you blew it”? Of course not; He doesn’t give up on sinners, and it’s never too late to find Jesus and repent. Jesus loves us all, even unrepentant sinners. Perhaps gays who become conservative are guided by God to us so that they can have a chance to be saved? Maybe they just haven’t found Christ yet. Being rejected by overly rightious Christians surely won’t help them find Christ and repent, though. Do we not have a responsibility to help these people rather than just casting them aside as hopeless cases?