It’s not my job to forgive anyone except those who harm me personally. Forgiving those who harm me personally is my job. Forgiving others is God’s job. It’s offensive to think that I should around forgiving people I don’t even know or who have not harmed me personally.
Second, forgiveness of God is dependent on whether people are repentent or not. God does not forgive people who sin who are not truly repentent and continue on their merry way.
And just because all kinds of sin exist in the world does not mean some are not more egregious than others. I just have no clue where people get this erroneous idea. There is no homosexual act which is not an offense against nature. Homosexual acts used to be legally called “crimes against nature”. Sexual acts between a man and a woman may be sin if illicit, or may not be, if between a husband and wife and allowing the potentiality of life.
So you cannot compare the two. Of course, promsicuity, adultery, and the long list of even worse sexual sins is there. But to be an unrepentent proud homosexual is helping not only to degrade the general culture, but acts to influence young people. As does the other degraded lifestyles of all the “stars” both Hollywood, music and sports. USed to be that young people were encouraged to read biographies and look up to heroes and heroines who used their lives well for the benefit of humanity. Now they look up to those who are famous for their weath, thuggery, illicit sex and so-called beauty which is not only ephemeral as the mist in the morning, but a product of chemicals, surgeons and photoshop.
I don’t know at this point whether Jennifer Knapp is a “proud, unrepentant” homosexual. I do know that there is no Biblical basis for believing that homosexuality is worse than other sins. I can think of a myriad of sins which seem worse to me than non-promiscuous lesbian homosexuality, but I am not “forgiving” Jennifer any more than I am condemning her. I do know that based on the scripture, I am in danger if I condemn anyone. I am disturbed that so many on FR are happy to bash homosexuals, while winking and laughing at heterosexual sin. I find nothing in the Bible which condemns “sin against nature.” In fact, that sounds like a concept rooted in atheistic evolutionary thinking. Christians are required to manifest only two things, which are love of God, and love of our neighbors. Jesus said his followers would be known not that they had pure doctrine, but that they loved one another.