We love you, but not really

So why can you be a liar, a cheat, an adulterer, addicted to porn and still be a Christian, but you can't be gay and be a Christian?  We Christians often use the lovely platitude, "a sin is a sin," meaning, of course, that God doesn't weigh our sins, he sees them all the same.  The reality, however, is that we don't believe this shit for a minute.  If we did, then we wouldn't be so quick to say who can be a Christian and who can't.  Everyone would be (and should be) allowed to follow Christ in their own way.  

Another great saying of Christians is, "hate the sin, love the sinner."  Yet another platitude that we don't live out at all.  We basically use this as an excuse to be prejudiced against whores, homosexuals, and anyone else that we find "seedy."  This is on the same plane as people who say, "I'm not a racist, but..."  If they use that you know the next thing out of their mouth is going to be a racist comment.  They use a statement against racism to justify their own racism.  In the same way, when a Christian uses the phrase, "hate the sin, love the sinner," they're just trying to justify their own hatred of the "sinner."  

God isn't fooled.  He knows our hearts.  If you hate someone, dear Christian, then just say it, at least you would be honest.  No one is buying your shit, especially not God.  We should probably be careful to not say who's in and who's out of God's graces, lest we find ourselves on the wrong side of that grace we feel so comfortable in.