Engaging the LGBT Community, by Landon Chapman
This is an excellent podcast and I highly recommend it. There are some Christians who want to criminalize members of the LGBT community (See: 4 Reasons the Magistrates Have a Duty to Criminalize Homosexual Acts, by Matthew Trewella). And there are Christians who single out these people as though they were the worst sinners imaginable (See: Russell Brand Hosts the Westboro Baptist Church).
But a lot of Christians feel like they are on the ropes, fighting for their very existence (See: The History of Religious Liberty and Religious Liberty Under Attack, both by Jim Schneider).
Still, it's important to keep in mind that our Lord Jesus didn't command his followers to defend their rights, but rather to:
"Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned." - Mark 16:15,16
If and when it becomes illegal for Christians to follow that command, they need to "obey God rather than men" (Acts 5:29) As Dr. David P. Murray says in When Government Tries to Be God: "We will be respectful. We will give our reasons. But we will say, No!"
To paraphrase Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892):
"If [members of the LGBT community] will be damned, at least let them leap to hell over our
bodies. And if they will perish, let them perish with our arms around
their knees, imploring them to stay. If hell must be filled, at least
let it be filled in the teeth of our exertions, and let not one go there
unwarned and unprayed for."
