And this is attitude is why I left the LCMS. Why are we so concerned about this one particular "sin?" When I was in Boy Scouts--in church-affiliated troops (one LCMS, one Methodist)--there were plenty of Scouts who weren't living in Christ-affirming lives. There were heterosexually active boys, Buddhist boys, Hindu boys, atheist boys, boys who had been in gangs, boys who were "problem children," and many others. Why is the LCMS continually fixated on homosexuals?

I'm not seeing a lot of Christ's love in either this statement or the posters' comments. Instead, I'm seeing a lot of self-elevation disguised as piety. And from my reading of the Gospels, Christ had a lot more to say about this sort of Pharisee-like behavior than he ever did about people's sexual lives.