I can't speak for either, but I feel like the problem with judgemental Christians is precisely that they lack judgement, discernment and analysis. Homophobia isn't judgement, it's prejudice dressed as judging.
I think they are doing and have done tremendous damage to the Body of Christ.
In the last 100 years, I would rank them 3rd in the list of calamities to hit the Church- behind institutional cooperation and co-option by the wallpaper hanger and the USA dropping the sun on the center of Christianity in Japan.
They ask of others what they would never do for themselves or God, and then they get to feel superior and more Christian because they aren’t doing those things when they spread lies about LGBTQ people among each other. Being straight or trying to fight their sexuality makes them no more moral or good or beloved by God. It does signal to their queerphobic co-religionists that they are one of them and deserve all the cookies they can get. Prejudice wrapped in faith claims is harm and will never be what loving our neighbor looks like. We should pray for their repentance, not ours as LGBTQ Christians.
Matthew 7:21-23 "Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’"
"When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That's the message he is sending."
-Thich Nhat Hanh
I can't speak for either, but I feel like the problem with judgemental Christians is precisely that they lack judgement, discernment and analysis. Homophobia isn't judgement, it's prejudice dressed as judging.
I think they are doing and have done tremendous damage to the Body of Christ.
In the last 100 years, I would rank them 3rd in the list of calamities to hit the Church- behind institutional cooperation and co-option by the wallpaper hanger and the USA dropping the sun on the center of Christianity in Japan.
I'm heterosexual, but by being judgemental one could say they are not following Christ.
They ask of others what they would never do for themselves or God, and then they get to feel superior and more Christian because they aren’t doing those things when they spread lies about LGBTQ people among each other. Being straight or trying to fight their sexuality makes them no more moral or good or beloved by God. It does signal to their queerphobic co-religionists that they are one of them and deserve all the cookies they can get. Prejudice wrapped in faith claims is harm and will never be what loving our neighbor looks like. We should pray for their repentance, not ours as LGBTQ Christians.
Matthew 7:21-23 "Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’"
"When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That's the message he is sending." -Thich Nhat Hanh