re: Sunny Hostin: "Jesus would be the grand marshal at the pride parade."

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Hard to say what he would have done.

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He wouldn't acknowledge or approve of collective identities.

He spent his time freeing people from that shite.

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Hard to say what he would have done

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No. It's really not.

He would have loved the sinner, and condemned the sin.

Leading a gay pride parade is not an example of the former, nor a reflection of the latter (loving the sinner does not mean supporting and affirming their sinful behavior).

Is it? Only if you've never read his words. Matthew 5. A very dire warning to the sinful.

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On the other hand, he did reach out to people on the fringes of society (see the lepers).

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Yes because grown men who parade down Main Street wearing assless chaps and paper mache phalluses in front of children are exactly the same as lepers and the poor.

Jesus, you idiot groomer, didn't you get enough of a beating yesterday?

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On the other hand, he did reach out to people on the fringes of society (see the lepers).

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Lepers? You are comparing People with a disease that they didn't want to people living a personal lifestyle that they chose? ... come on Hank

Btw... tweets deleted..

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On the other hand, he did reach out to people on the fringes of society (see the lepers).

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Yeah, spreading the Gospel is not the same as affirming one's life as a sinner. It's not "come as you are and leave as you came."

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e did reach out to people on the fringes of society (see the lepers).

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Reach out is a lot different than being a marshal of a gay pride parade. Pretty sure Jesus said to be in the world not of the world.

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Hard to say what he would have done.

On one hand, he was a very conservative Jew (see money changers in the Temple). On the other hand, he did reach out to people on the fringes of society (see the lepers).

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Reasonable point but misleading.

Jesus took flack for who he reached out to and who he let approach him, even touch him physically. As you note, lepers, tax collectors, prostitutes, adulterers, sinners in general. The sick need a physician, not the whole and healthy, didn’t Jesus say?

There’s no specific record of an interaction with a homosexual. Replace the “woman caught in adultery” with “the man caught laying with another man” and I believe you can adduce Jesus’s response. “You without sin cast the first stone.” And to the sinner, “Neither do I condemn thee. Go and sin no more.”

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Because we have so little reliable historical info about him people tend to cherry-pick verses that support their own views and project their own ideals upon him.

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Cherry picking verses is and will always be a pesky issue as long as we’re hindered by our sinful nature, our flesh as KJV puts it. But that’s more or less irrelevant to the question.

The observation of having “so little reliable historical info about him” is inaccurate. There’s more than enough evidence to have a reasonable Christian faith in the New Testament alone.