“... because many congregants have homosexuals in their families and have a softness for them.”
Absolutely agree that this is the motivation of many of the people who have embraced the LGBT agenda over the past few decades (i.e., not only out of an alleged desire to be “supportive” of the LGBT family member, but also, perhaps more importantly, because the normalization of homosexuality serves to dilute the social stigma that the LGBT family member would have attached to the family in an earlier era). We saw this former social conservative Dick Cheney embracing the lesbianism of his daughter. In my opinion, it doesn’t show a great deal of character on the part of family members who do this. If you thought homosexual acts were wrong before, why are they suddenly okay just because your family member starts doing them? This is analogous to someone opposing drug abuse but then embracing it and celebrating it after their kid became an addict.
I agree with Irish and Rooster on this being a motivation for atta-boying LGBTQWERTY. But I'd say it's a broader temptation than that. If a person feels guilty over his own hedonistic ways, even if they were done years prior and it was all straight sex instead of gay, embracing LGBTQWERTY practices gives an indirect confirmation to straight sex hedonism as well. Basically, lying to gays about the sex habits is a way to lie to yourself about your straight sex habits.
The best way around this is to: 1) accept God's grace through Jesus. None of your past sin matters anyway -- you don't have to figure out ways to excuse it or justify it. And 2) be serious about Jesus in your lifestyle and your message from now on. Love Him, trust Him, love others, live it like ya mean it, and be bold about Him while being humble about yourself.
He definitely exposed a weakness in his character and faith by approving of his daughter.
He didn't have the guts to set an example with tough love when it was called for and, in doing so, he ruined whatever Christian "witness" he might have had.