Since you insist on continuing this inane diatribe, I will give you the common courtesy of a reply, despite the fact that I have already said that I do not wish to continue conversing with someone with such a closed mind.
I will get flamed for expressing such a bold opinion, but I am critical of Christians who condemn homosexuality but do not vote. To my way of thinking that conduct supports homosexuality, immorality, pornography and other sexual vices much more than my saying that Ms. Bruce, a homosexual, is a clear thinking person with great personal experience and insight into the liberal gay radical mind and agenda.
Many professing Christians vote for democrats, which IS supporting immorality, as any well-informed Christian would tell you.
Let me speculate on why a Christian might vote for a democrat. They do it because they are ignorant about politics. They listen to ungodly people on liberal television and radio. They believe the lie that democrats will line their pockets with money. There may even be pastors who seek large collections on Sunday, who support democrats because most of their congregants are not rich, and these misguided leaders have been misled to believe that the poor would be entitled to more handouts from the government. If they place their own economic interests in the way of supporting Christian morals, they sin.
For those professing Christians who are rigid, ignorant of everything that Ms. Bruce is, other than that she is a lesbian, consider this: We love the sinner by being faithful in witnessing to them of the forgiveness that is available through Jesus Christ. .
http://www.gotquestions.org/love-sinner-hate-sin.html Many Christians are now writing Ms. Bruce offering her the hope of salvation along with loving, tender messages of acceptance. I believe that she knows that her sexual perversion is not good. If you take the time and effort to read her book you may also agree.
A true act of love is treating someone with respect and kindness even though they know you do not approve of their lifestyle and/or choice. Id.
I do not approve of Ms. Bruce’s lifestyle, but I do not approve of any sinful act whatever the nature of it might be. For example, the body is the temple of the Holy Spirit. There are some individual Christians who have a medical condition which makes it impossible for them to control their weight. I pray for healing for them. Others are gluttonous. They simply eat too many donuts. They do not exercise. They are slothful. They are not being good stewards of the body that God has provided for them. I venture to say that there are a great deal more obese Christians than there are gays. If you exclude all gays, from your congregation, then put a weigh scale out in front of the church on Sunday and reject anyone who is more than 25 lbs overweight. How many congregants would you have left in your pews? I do not mean to dwell on the sin of gluttony, but it is a common problem that is easily overlooked. I do not condemn anyone who is overweight. Many good people simply cannot afford food that is not loaded with carbohydrates. I would never tell someone who is overweight that they are sinners. That is not my point. My point is that if you want to be so legalistic, then consider the sin in your own life as well. It is not loving to allow a person to remain stuck in sin. It is not hateful to tell a person they are in sin. In fact, the exact opposites are true. Id.
I do not approve of the sin in my own life, yet my flesh struggles with the spirit to raise me to a better life through the power of the Holy Spirit.
Ms. Bruce’s sin is one of sexual perversion, the sin of Christians who condemn her every thought, who would ostracize her from their churches and dinner tables, in my opinion are sinning as well. Would Jesus associate with Ms. Bruce? I think so.
(Luke 5:29-32) Then Levi held a great banquet for Jesus at his house, and a large crowd of tax collectors and others were eating with them. {30} But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law who belonged to their sect complained to his disciples, "Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and 'sinners'?" {31} Jesus answered them, "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. {32} I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance." Id.
The modern day Pharisees are those who condemn us because we associate ourselves with Ms. Bruce by praising her for condemning radical gay activists. These modern day legalists, do not have the faintest idea what Ms. Bruce has written and said about radical gays. They are hollow clanging symbols, weak on knowledge and strong on condemnation. It is not enough for us to study scripture, especially when it puffs us up. We must not be wise in our own conceit.
I would not mind an intelligent well-informed opinion that condemns Ms. Bruce for what she advocates, but what is wrong is to assume that because she is gay, she has no redeeming value. I’ll try to be tactful here: God may differ with such narrow-minded drivel.
Unless and until you have read Ms. Bruce, I for one do not want to discuss her opinions with anyone so uninformed. It is also my opinion that Christians who are legalists, and narrow-minded, who without more condemn every gay because of their sin, turn possible converts away. Of course homosexuality is a dreadful sin, but if someone is going to Hell, they have a much more serious problem that needs to be address by we Christians. I voted against gay marriage, against homosexual preferences. I voted against teaching children in elementary school that the gay lifestyle is an acceptable alternative. Jesus came to save the sinners, and not only you, your family or the members of your church congregation or bible schoolteacher.
If you do not intend to read Ms. Bruce’s books then I must ask you in all Christian love not to communicate with me on this subject again.