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You are confusing preaching the gospel to sinners with making political alliances with sinners where a quid pro quo is to NOT mention the sinfullness of their agenda.

Sorry, I wasn't aware that you had to be sinless to understand the Republican message, or that we have to march lock-step on every issue like those leftist drones. Maybe we should also kick out of the party all thieves, adulterers, killers, haters, coveters, people who bear false witness, who don't observe the Sabbath, and generally who don't live the way we think they should.

Let's post the message in large letters over the door of the tent: "No sinners need apply!" I wonder how many people would be left then to speak out with any strength against infantcide. Jesus took His message to prostitutes, tax collectors, and adulteresses. He opened His arms to all. He told us that He is present in the naked, the suffering, the hungry, and the imprisoned.

And I believe my party was born in the battle for the freedom of the oppressed (slaves), and it is ever a reminder that we are supposed to include even those who are different from us, because liberty and dignity are not exclusive to whites or heterosexuals, and politicians don't become "tainted" just by talking to groups who live a different life than they do.

I believe you misunderstood Polycarp's statement.

I don't believe he was saying that we shouldn't associate with sinners, cause none of us are sinless. Jesus worked among the sinners, the outcasts of the time, but he never comprimised himself or his goals with them or as Polycarp incinuated pulled a quid pro quo deal with them. I think it was just simple misunderstanding on your behalf..no big deal.

Yes Jesus opened his arms to all, he was loving, kind and caring. But he was also righteous and just, as he often showed by rebuking people for hypocritical and false statements.

But I'm off topic. I try to deal with people with the standard set by Jesus, I don't always do it. But I always try to hate the sin and not the sinner. I try to love others and treat others as I would like to be treated, but I do not compromise what I know is right, and what I stand for. If that means offending someone or a group than so be it. You have to step on toes from time to time to get people's attention.

The same goes with how I treat homosexuals, I've known several in my lifetime. My mom was good friends with a pair of Lesbians...(please no jokes, she's straight)....and I consider them good people. I treat them with kindness and respect, but they know I do not condone their lifestyle and I have told them so. Instead of calling me a homophobe they respected my opinion and me all the more for sticking to it. But as kind as I am to them on a personal level, I am loudly opposed to the "Gay Agenda".