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I know people tend to get extremely defensive when you bring up anything being a sin, but being gay seems to hit a nerve with people harder due to the push by society that anyone who opposes it is automatically an evil person. How you share the information with someone depends on who you're approaching. If it's a lost person, you share Jesus first. Focus on God first, then repentance. When it comes to a worldly Christian, focus on scripture that shows this is a sin, and we are called to be outside of the world and not in it.
The Bible is very strict when it comes to sexual immorality, and you're right, most people don't abide by it. That does exactly nothing to change God's word, however. From what I see, the Bible is very consistent on portraying homosexuality as sinful.
Charlie Kirk said lots of hateful stuff. I don't recall his comments on LGBTQ issues, but he certainly hit it on other topics.
He was shot because he viewed LGBTQ behavior as sinful. Whenever I saw him speak with gay people, he basically said "I welcome you to join the conservative moment, but full disclosure, as a Christian, I view homosexuality as sinful".
The shooter's boyfriend was trans, it stands to reason that was a big part of what he considered hateful messaging. But from what I have heard from Charlie Kirk, from a Christian perspective, I didn't think Kirk's message was hateful. The activists apparently thought otherwise.
Again, I can't recall exactly what he said on the subject, but I stumbled across this in another thread:
That's a thread about a kid's show promoting Pride Month to children. Conservatives are against that, as I said before.
The implication is that it’s an inappropriate sexualization of children. The obvious contrast is that they levy no such complaints about heterosexual themes being presented to children, as if those aren’t also somewhat sexual in nature.
Heterosexual relationships have a function for reproducing the species and for creating the nuclear family. Viewing the presentation of LGBTQ material to children as unhealthy does not mean there is hatred toward individuals involved. The activists apparently feel otherwise, as they have an entirely different agenda.
