My Take:
"To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak; I have become all things to all men, so that I may by all means save some. I do all things for the sake of the gospel... "
Yet this is completely lost on most Christians like the ones above who feel they need to have special round table discussions on homosexuality and THIS is hypocritical to the unbelieving World.
When you discriminate against the LGBTQ community because you think your faith gives you this entitlement, this is bigotry by its very definition YOU think is God-backed and what is "bigotry" everyone can understand? A bigoted belief is one that respects, enforces or socially/culturally maintains enforcement of oppression on a disenfranchised minority for no useful reason other than prejudice, belief, and tradition. But it also is a belief that perpetuates stigma, stereotypes, misinformation, or cruelty to disenfranchised minorities. Even if the person believes their argument is sound, if it hurts, defames, dehumanizes, disenfranchises, stigmatizes, or insults the being of a person, it is BIGOTED.
Bigotry should not even be in the vocabulary of a Christian with another also created in the image of God.
The 3 tries to get around this by saying; "Well the Bible says..." But Paul shuts them down by asking; "What have we to do with the affairs of the world? Nothing." We are only called to live at peace with our neighbor, walk 2 miles when they ask us to walk 1, and love them like a favorite child.
Instead of TRYING to not sound bigoted and getting frustrated when you still come off like one, why not take a good look at yourself and see if the unbelieving world has reason to see you as a bigot? Paul says himself we are to examine ourselves and these men have missed the mark. The "World" isn't irrational and they can see when a wrong is being done to another no matter the reason you give.
I have nothing to say about these two old goats other than they should be put to bed with a big glass of warm milk.
*A few years back study researchers on homosexuality held a press conference demanding anti-gay Christian groups stop twisting their data. Did they listen? No. They just can't help themselves with what's outright bearing false witness with these studies that should be yanked out of their hands.
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