>>>hosted by Gays for Trump in celebration of his election<<<
I guess it was really important for us at FR to know that this was a ball for perverts. Thanks for that seedy information.
I get what your saying but this group actively supports trump. Keep in mind trump won Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin for the win by 67,000 votes. Could this group have helped with those numbers?
Well, the name of the thing (Gay DeploraBall) kind of left not too much room for misinterpretation.
That said, Donald seems to have successfully pitched his charm offensive their way. I really do feel sympathy for people who have gotten stuck in “gay” lifestyle habits for reasons of ignorance and unbelief. The left has, I believe, added to an atmosphere which has pulled a lot of people into specific wickedness who might otherwise have not ventured that way. Wickedness can be as addictive as a drug.
Thinking about God as I tend to try to do, I look for a larger plan here. We can’t always see it coming, but sometimes we can; like Jesus said (paraphrased), we can read the signs of the weather, and in a similar manner can read the spiritual signs of the times.
Mike Pence is Mr. Reparative Therapy, to put it plainly. There may be a contingent of the “gay” crowd which isn’t fundamentally opposed to the idea that they might learn a different kind of life. And Donald’s charm offensive might be the first step that they need to hear. Later on, Mike Pence could find an opening to speak, in which he can talk about a route to a saner sexual self-concept, and along with that, a saner sexual life.
“Gay” is often a severe test of our patience. The first impulse of many people is, if not “oh, just hide that thing from us,” is “toss them into hell.” But neither one of these is going to be conducive to the kind of miracles that Jesus (of Whom I am very proud) is capable of. The ultimate test of how Christian we are, may not even be whether we are Christian enough to hate the sin, but whether we are Christian enough to love the sinner and make whatever sacrifice Jesus may call us to in order to steer that sinner into the straight and narrow.
There may, in fact will, come a time for blunt, forceful, direct talk. But that has to happen within a context of larger trust, or we lose out on the wonders of Jesus.