Loeje wrote:District-6a wrote:You can't disagree that someone is gay. If an individual is homophobic, they view people who are LGBT as lesser or as repugnant, or unworthy of the same rights and respect as heterosexuals; this extends far further than disagreements. Homophobia inherently means that the level of respect is far far less, you cannot truly respect a member of the LBGT as a homophobe. Anybody who is a homophobe but says that they respect homosexuals are lying to themselves and to you
There is the possibility that they think it's a sin and treat it the same way they treat any other sin. Which would make respect possible.
Depends on how exactly they're treating sins and what they're calling a sin.
I don't believe that you can genuinely respect someone and believe that a core part of them means that they're inherently more evil, or are doing an evil thing just by going about their day-to-day life.
And if the sins are so unimportant that you
can hold someone routinely sinning because it is a core, unchangeable part of who they are as somehow not lesser, then I question the point of sins and declaring it a sin in the first place.