“Homophobic rhetoric isn’t a matter of free speech. It’s a matter of hate speech,” Rep. Jimmy Gomez, D-Calif., said on Twitter Friday. “These are stunning, harmful words from Justice Alito.”
Criticism of gays can be done in a hateful way.
But Jesus died for all of us. So, we must not discriminate about who needs to be forgiven and has hope of being changed by God.
All of us have been born in sin; so I understand that every one of us was born wrong.
When I was just a kid, I cared more about getting candy and ice cream, than I cared about people. And it was easy to fool me into believing in Santa Claus, and then I cared mainly about things I could get from Santa for my own self. I was about myself.
But one of the basics of Jesus is >
"If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me." (in Luke 9:23)
I would say a basic of how any of us has been born in sin . . . therefore born wrong . . . is how any of us has been able to be mainly about our own selves. And therefore we can only love certain people, the ones we can use, often enough, for the pleasures we treasure. But Jesus says >
"If you love those who love you, what reward have you?" in Matthew 5:46.
And then what can happen . . . if parents treasure children more than loving any and all people? If certain people come along to influence children to be ok with gay stuff, this could result in parents not having grandchildren. And if children are an idol, ones can hate gays for influencing their kids away from providing grandchildren. Ones can hate those they can't use for what they treasure.
And sexual sensations can be a treasure. I have been treated hatefully because certain possibly gay ones could not use me for what they perhaps treasure.
So, hate does not discriminate, about who it uses. But ones screaming in your face, or smart-talking, in the media, can make things look however they want you to see things.