Evangelicals are surpassing the divorce rate of secular society. And yet we’re accusing gay folks of breaking up the family while all of them want to get married. What’s happening here?

shane claiborne he’s so good at putting into words what ive always thought. (via roseann)

What Claiborne says is exactly true; the Church has much room for improvement in terms of stigmatizing groups and loving all peoples. Yet conditionless love must present in tandem with clearly-stated truth. At the same link, Charles Colson writes:

The best way to understand homosexuality is Romans 1. God created a physical order. He then condemns those who ignore what should be obvious to them, who exchange the truth for a lie. And then He immediately singles out homosexuality. As I wrote in The Faith, that is not because homosexual sex is any worse a sin than many others that we commit. It is just that it is the one that most obviously violates the natural, created order.

Claiborne and the Emergents clearly have the love part down. It’s the truth part that I’m concerned about.