Stop calling out homophobes

When the light is too bright it serves to blind, rather than to help people see.

I (like many LGBTQ+ people) hate the phrase: “Love the sinner, hate the sin.” Christians have used the phrase in recent years to clarify that they do not, for example, hate gay people, just gay sex. But the ways in which gay sex has been “hated” has often involved language that is shaming and unhelpful, unwittingly attacking the person, as well as “the …