re: United Methodist Church special session this week

Love the Lord you God with all your heart soul and mind.

Love your neighbor as yourself.

It goes in that order for a reason.

That said. This is a really really tough issue.
I wonder about this scenario often.
If a gay person truly does their research and believes in their heart that God does not find their actions sinful and this person loves and wants to be with Jesus and repents for sin and even sin they don't think they are doing...then in some way is that any different than a Catholic unrepentantly praying to Mary if Catholicism is false teaching? Or any unknowing unrepentant sin? Unrepentant pride?

The gay issue is in your face as a Christian. You can likely easily go about your days having differing views about Creation and Evolution or Catholics and Protestants Or infant and adult baptism etc....and it really doesn't matter a whole lot. But if someone is gay in your family it's a major issue to deal with. And to be faithful to scripture and loving to your relative is a narrow road to take.