I cant look my gay brother in the eye anymore and say I love the sinner but hate the sin. I cant keep drawing circles in the sand. I thought I just needed to try harder. Maybe I needed to focus more on loving the sinner, and less on protesting the sin. But even if I was able to fully live up to that ideal, Id still be wrong. Id still be viewing him as something other, something different. Not human. Not friend. Not Christian. Not brother. Sinner. ...Maybe we accept them in our midst. But even then, its sinners in our midst -- branded with a rainbow-colored scarlet letter. They arent truly part of us. Even that word them makes me cringe as I speak it, as if my brothers and sisters are somehow other, different from me. Its a special sort of condescending love weve reserved for the gay community. Well agree to love them, accept them, welcome them -- but we reserve the right to see them as different. We reserve the right to say them instead of us. We embrace them with arms full of disclaimers about how all the sinners are welcome here. And yet, theyre the only ones we constantly remind of their status as sinners, welcome sinners. Im done with speaking as if Im different, better than you. ...We are children of the Creator, redeemed by Jesus. We are brothers and sisters. And today, thats enough.
Posted on: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 07:07:33 +0000
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