I said I made no comment on his behaviour, not his preference.
"these types of lifestyles" - you have no single, chaste friends of either orientation? You would feel that you should not?
I don't require my friends to be just like me, or to have only the struggles and burdens I have, before I deem them worthy of my friendship. If that's having a shot foundation, I'd rather live in this house than a narrow, judgemental one always looking for fault and viewing others with suspicion.
Preference, behavior, what is the difference really. Your doing some dance here with semantics now.
No I do not require my friends to be just like me but I do not yoke up with people who are not seeking the Lord (at many different levels). What friendship do we have with the world?
James 4:4King James Version (KJV)
4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God
If someone does not want to be my friend because I do not want to remain silent to a blatant lifestyle then they are not my friend anyhow are they.
Proverbs 27:5 ESV
Better is open rebuke than hidden love
Surely I am friendly with people, often with the sole purpose of sharing the gospel with them. But there is a difference between being friendly and being yoked as friends.
I do not allow myself to be yoked with someone living a lifestyle blatant of sin (lest I fall in or become complicit). Certainly if I became aware of it I would warn them and give them the gospel or then it might be on me as being complicit it basically agreeing with them and their sinful lifestyle. More than likely that would naturally stop any friendship as people do not like to be told they are living in sin, especially those living in blatant sin. Like if I had a drunkard as a friend. I would tell him what he was doing was wrong and to repent and trust in the Lord. If he did, we now have something in common, not the same, but we have the Lord in common. If he did not, well then I could not continue to expose myself or my family to those sorts of things that comes along even spiritually...that would make me a bad shepherd over my family and the bible says to work out our salvation in fear and trembling. So you just turn a blind eye to his abominable lifestyle which the bible clearly states, continue your friendship as if there is not a 1000 pound elephant in the room and enable him to be in jeopardy of hell...that does not sound much like real friendship to me.
James 5:20King James Version (KJV)
20 Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.
2 Corinthians 6:14-18King James Version (KJV)
14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
15 And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?
16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you.
18 And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.