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Jesus says to love any and all people. So, a conservative Christian will not tell you who to love. But > Jesus says >What gives them the right to tell a person how they should live there life, who they should love, how they should worship.
"For if you love those who love you, what reward have you?" This is in Matthew 5:46.
So, we do warn you not to pick and choose who you love. Ones have a way of loving only the ones they can use for what they want. This selfish way of selective loving is not Biblical. There are ones who isolate with only certain people, and claim they love them; this is not how Jesus says to love.
There are ones who stay in groups mainly with others who have the same preferences for pleasure. Their treasure is pleasure, not really God's way of loving, then!! So, if you care about people like this, you will tell them how they are wrong, for their own good.
It is wrong to discriminate against wrong people by telling them they do not need the forgiveness which comes with the shed blood of Christ. But we see now in the United States, how certain wrong people are being told they do not need Christ's forgiveness; this is a hate crime, in the sight of God, to so discriminate against certain people. And ones are trying to legally force conservatives to stop telling certain wrong people that they need forgiveness of Jesus on the cross; and at the same time they are accusing conservatives of being the ones forcing people and discriminating.
But, of course, there are people claiming to be conservative who have not shown their children how to relate in a close relationship, such as marriage. And so, their children discover how their parents' ways do not satisfy them in love; and so they go hunting elsewhere, and end up with peers who likewise have not found out how to love. And they isolate and inbreed in seeking pleasure, in their desperation to feel something nice. And with this comes plenty of wrong ways of doing things, and deep breakdown emotionally > in their weakness for pleasure they are also weak for suffering deep pain and emotional chaos. And so they are a product of certain ones claiming to be conservative, but who do not have the character of Jesus and how He has us loving with "rest for your souls." (Matthew 11:29)
Therefore, it is Biblical to warn you against what God knows is wrong. But it is not Biblical to force this on people. But be an example of how Jesus gives us "rest for your souls" while we do what is truly right. And point out how there is "Destruction and misery" (Romans 3:16) in their wrong ways, because of the weakness of the wrong spirit of wrong things. But Jesus gives us strength with creativity for how to love any and all people.
Laws and force can not bring what is really good; nor can blaming church culture Sunday-only copy-cats. But we know how prayer with example and sharing God's word does work.
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