re: Why do churches get so worked up over gays?

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Christians see it as a sin. And it’s a sin that is trying to be normalized without asking for forgiveness/repentance. Not an exactly good example (yes Christianity is full of hypocrisy) but it would be as if we made thievery normal and unpunished.

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This is a good answer and I think it makes a lot of sense.

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Christians see it as a sin. And it’s a sin that is trying to be normalized without asking for forgiveness/repentance. Not an exactly good example (yes Christianity is full of hypocrisy) but it would be as if we made thievery normal and unpunished

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Well put.

I’d take it a step farther and say it’s the only sin that people are actively trying to reinterpret the scripture on.

Nobody is saying “y’all misunderstood the Bible on murder, greed, theft, lust, adultery.”

We might gloss over them too much (which is not OK) but there is not a large part of the church trying rewrite what the Bible says about them as sin. That’s why it becomes such a big deal as opposed to other sins we struggle with.

ETA: I’ve said repeatedly that the church took the wrong stance in trying to stop gays from getting married or ostracizing them. They should have welcomed them in but been up front about how they wouldn’t stop calling it sin.

The church, and less importantly Republicans, lost a good 20 years to Anti-church sentiments and leftism because of this.