Grace and Sin: A Clarification

Let's be clear. Despite what many people I have heard from may think, my intention with this blog is not to "promote sin". I see homosexuality as another form of adultery or fornication, and all of that is sin.

But what good does it do to preach at and condemn "unsaved" gay people and tell them they are unalterably doomed, and wail and mourn that the U.S. has thrown itself into an apocalyptic abyss because of the Supreme Court's decision on same sex marriage?

No one, including gays, has any power to deal with their sin condition on their own, even if they want to. Our only way out of all that is through believing in Christ. So isn't it more in line with God's will to respond with love and grace instead of hate and fear, and then trust the Holy Spirit for any future changes in people's lives?

Same-sex marriage is a civil, not a religious issue. Now that a civil ceremony pledging two gay people together in what they recognize as a marriage is legal, I ask, seriously, so what? How does this really affect the rest of us?  It is still the right of any pastor or minister who believes this is wrong to refuse to perform such a ceremony. So where, really, is all the indignation coming from?

Many American Christians feel they've suffered a great defeat here. But the state is not a theocracy. The laws of the United States protect individual rights, whether Christians agree with those rights or not. And so the society - "the world" - has moved in a new direction to reflect its and the people's changing beliefs.  

John told us in 1 John 2: 15-17 (KJV):
                  
^"Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever."

Christians loved the former world, the one without gay marriage, and now they're upset because it's changed and they want to change it back. But are we not pining for the world the way it was and focusing too much attention on that by trying to reverse this decision? What are we doing meddling in and trying to control these affairs?

There were many worse practices permitted under Roman law governing slavery, idolatry and the like, but there is NO record of Jesus leading protests against them or even denouncing them. All He did was preach the gospel, as did the apostles after Him. THAT was their top priority. So then should it be ours.