Giants reliever Jeremy Affeldt urges Christians to be more accepting of gays

[KamaAina]

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-league-stew/giants-reliever-jeremy-affeldt-urges-christian-tolerance-toward-gays-171816121.html

San Francisco Giants relief pitcher Jeremy Affeldt is one of the good guys in baseball — he's a devout Christian who fights against child poverty and human trafficking. He once returned $500,000 to the Giants after noticing they paid him too much because of a clerical error.

Well, Affeldt's latest social justice interest might ruffle feathers among his fellow conservative Christians. Affeldt penned a blog post this week in which he urged Christians to be more tolerant toward gays. He writes:

Why do people who aren’t Christians hate us? They look at us and say, “You’re just a bunch of Bible thumpers who are homophobic and you don’t love anybody.”

We’ve brought that on ourselves. I don’t think we’re showing the love of Jesus. Gay people are asking for equal rights under the law, and we’ve got Christians saying “God hates you.” I get so angry because that’s not true! Godloves you! Jesus walks with the gay community! I think Jesus says, “I love you just as I love someone who is not gay. I love you as a human being. I just love you.”

That's my World Champs!!

[trotsky]

1. Great article, but...

it seems to leave that little crack open for the "Love the sinner, hate the sin" nonsense. Is he on record anywhere admitting being gay isn't a sin? I have seen many Christians saying what he does, yet cloak it in the mantle of "We cannot judge others' sins" and such.