A Gay Twitter Conversation

I wrote a post a while back about loving LGBT people.

Recently I Tweeted about the post and ended up having an interesting conversation on Twitter about it.

Here is the conversation:

[2015 Note: Sandpiper64 deleted all his Tweets. So they no longer show]

The sin of Sodom was not homosexuality, but that they they ate too much food without taking care of the poor and needy. Ezekiel 16:49

— Jeremy Myers (@jeremyers1) May 16, 2012

Why we should love LGBT people — even if you think their lifestyle is sinful. tillhecomes.org/loving-lgbt-pe…

— Jeremy Myers (@jeremyers1) May 15, 2012

@sandpiper64 If we reject LGBT people from church membership we should also reject those who are liars, cheats, selfish, angry, and gluttons

— Jeremy Myers (@jeremyers1) May 16, 2012

@sandpiper64 I would tell them the same thing I would tell a man and woman who was kissing in church: Hey watch it… kids are around.

— Jeremy Myers (@jeremyers1) May 16, 2012

@sandpiper64 No, I would not marry them. But there are lots of man-woman couples I would not marry either.

— Jeremy Myers (@jeremyers1) May 16, 2012

@sandpiper64 Maybe. But also with greed and gluttony. These are bigger sins in the USA. How come nobody condemns them?

— Jeremy Myers (@jeremyers1) May 16, 2012

@sandpiper64 Corinthian sodomites? They weren’t LGBT. A man was sleeping with his father’s wife.

— Jeremy Myers (@jeremyers1) May 16, 2012

@sandpiper64 Ah, but who are my brethren?

— Jeremy Myers (@jeremyers1) May 16, 2012

@sandpiper64 don’t forget the others in the list: thieves, covetous, drunkards, revilers, extortioners. Churches are FULL of these.

— Jeremy Myers (@jeremyers1) May 16, 2012

@sandpiper64 Gluttony isn’t an open sin? Are you kidding?

— Jeremy Myers (@jeremyers1) May 16, 2012

@sandpiper64 Yes, and Yes. Churches are full of justification for every sort of sin, gluttony, thieving, lying, coveting, reviling, etc.

— Jeremy Myers (@jeremyers1) May 16, 2012

@sandpiper64 God singled it out? He talks less about this sin than any other sin in Scripture.

— Jeremy Myers (@jeremyers1) May 16, 2012

@sandpiper64 How much do you weigh?

— Jeremy Myers (@jeremyers1) May 16, 2012

@sandpiper64 I just quoted half of it for you. Why single out one sinful act, and ignore the others? Is sexual sin worse than coveting?

— Jeremy Myers (@jeremyers1) May 16, 2012

@sandpiper64 The primary sin Paul is concerned with in 1 Cor 5-6 is a man who slept with his father’s wife. This is heterosexual behavior.

— Jeremy Myers (@jeremyers1) May 16, 2012

@sandpiper64 Thank God it’s not my church.

— Jeremy Myers (@jeremyers1) May 16, 2012

@sandpiper64 I believe and teach repentance. What I try not to do is single out one sin more than others.

— Jeremy Myers (@jeremyers1) May 16, 2012

And that was the end of the conversation.

How do you handle conversations like these? What did I say that I should not have said? What did I not say that I should have said? Where was I wrong? Where was I right?

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