Why gay marriages don't bother me as a Christian

I heard a sermon a very long time ago wherein the speaker turned my whole world upside down. He asked a question, and as far as I'm concerned, he could have just stopped talking right then and there, because he had us all by the jugular.

His question: "Why do we spend so much time trying to get sinners to stop sinning? Sinning is what sinners do. We ought to be trying to save them."

Wow. I don't know if the profundity of that reached anyone else in the room, but it hit me like a sack of bricks.

This is partially why I am so bothered by the "Christian Republican Agenda." Gay marriages have to be stopped! Pornography must be outlawed! Public profanity of any time should be purged! Stop sinning everyone!!!

I think the problem is that we forgot who our true enemies are. We aren't enemies with homosexuals, pornographers, or whatever. Our enemies are the "principalities and powers of the air." (Eph 6:12) Our spiritual enemies, the devil and his kin (yes, I believe there are such things as demons), don't care about getting people to sin--all they want to do is keep people from accepting Jesus as their savior. Everything else--the self-destructive living, the sins, etc--will come naturally.

We don't like being told to reach people with the gospel. That's hard work! It's much easier to give our sinners a shave and a new set of clothes--let's polish those turds!--than it is to change them from the inside out. And yet, this is the example our Lord set for us when He went and ministered to the dregs of his society.

Now I'm not saying people should be allowed to do whatever they want. There are some sins that victimize others, and these need to be outlawed. For instance, let's consider murder. Murder is a sin. But murder hurts others, and so our government has to do something about it. But there are also sins that that either victimize only ourselves or don't victimize anyone (like homosexuality, sexual promiscuity, drinking in excess, etc). Those sins may be distasteful, but so what? A sinner sins, it what make him or her a sinner! Don't get upset about their sinning, get busy reaching them with the gospel!

So gay marriages. Don't care. Let the sinners sin, its what they do. While everyone else is busy trying to keep them from getting married, I'm going to try and reach them with the good news of Jesus Christ. Nuts to politics.