Are anti-gay Christians persecuting gays out of fear or love?

Question

What are they fearing? What are they loving?

Answer 1

Actually the true sin is anyone who persecutes another. Given the 10 commandments specifically say to love thy neighbour as thyself, anyone who persecutes another is
a) full of self hate
and
b) not a christian

So, the question is irrelevant since no true christian would ignore the 10 commandments by persecuting another person.

Answer 2

Most Christians are not anti-gay, they are anti-sin. Most Christains try to love their neighbor including their gay neighbors. Most Christians also do not persecute gays.

Created in the image of the one God and equally endowed with rational souls, all men have the same nature and the same origin. Redeemed by the sacrifice of Christ, all are called to participate in the same divine beatitude: all therefore enjoy an equal dignity.

The Catholic Church believes there is nothing sinful about being homosexual. But homosexuals like all unmarried people are called to celibacy.

The Church specifically says that homosexuals "must be accepted with respect, compassion, and sensitivity. Every sign of unjust discrimination in their regard should be avoided."

Here is the text of the document, On the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons (1986): http://www.newadvent.org/library/docs_df86ho.htm

For more information, see the Catechism of the Catholic Church, section 2357-2359: http://www.usccb.org/catechism/text/pt3sect2chpt2art6.htm#2357

With love in Christ.

Answer 3

It depends on what their heart says. When they speak out against protecting them under the civil rights laws and speak harshly without regard to their feelings and out of fear, then the answer is yes. Regarding persecuting them out of love then that is not love but ignorance and disssulliusionment. Personaly speaking however I believe that their approach in that "we love them but hate their sin" is not workable nor is it viable simply because of our experience when segregation was practiced and people practiced "Seperate but equal". Of which it was not. (seperate but equal)

Answer 4

this sounds like a question made out in anger. calm down. they beleive that god put man and woman on earth so that man and WOMAN should be together. but i think that god put gays on earth so that THEY could be together. so being gay is perfectly fine with god, wich means its perfectly fine with me.

Answer 5

Dude,

Your tactic is not going to work.

Plain and simple;

Deviant sexual behavior is "Not" normal!

If it was, then everybody would be doing it!

Duh!