I’d like to speak to the manager!!!

On Facebook, I belong to a group that focuses on Broadway shows.

Surprise, surprise.  

A couple of weeks ago, someone said, I am Mormon and did the missionary trip.  Do you have any questions about Mormon Missionaries from watching Book of Mormon.  

I asked, rather politely, if the Mormon church had changed their stance on gay people yet, like they did with people of color in the 1970s.  

The kid who asked the questions, tried to be genuine and courteous and said all the right things.  Including, sharing a link to the recent story, that the church was no longer going to fight marriage equality.  

All was good, until I ask if they support gay people, or is it still you can be gay just don’t have gay sex. 

And then suddenly it was all love the sinner, hate the sin.  

Love the sinner, hate the sin is continuing to care about your Uncle Bob when he gets his 17^th DUI.  

Love the sinner, hate the sin is loving your Uncle Brett after he embezzles 5 million dollars from a charity for poor people.  

Love the sinner, hate the sin is supporting your father when his company gets convicted on tax evasion.

You absolutely, DO NOT LOVE me if you can’t support my relationship, my home, my children, my life without pointing out that I’m a sinner because I have gay sex. 

Nope.  You don’t love me at all.  

AND.

PS.

I’d bet all the money my father owes for tax evasion, that the reason the church is changing its status on marriage equality is that young people are leaving their church as fast as they are all the other churches because of their narrow views of social issues.  

I told the kid they’d have to walk back a long way to recover from the damage they did from Proposition 8 in California.