Last updated 08/12/2025
Some Christians like to portray themselves as courageous for "telling the truth about homosexuality" and loving because they're supposedly keeping us out of hell. They're also likely to paint LGBTQ+ people who object as being aggressive and mean.
1. Here are examples of Christians claiming it's an act of love or courage to tell people homosexuality is sinful and resist LGBT+ acceptance.
Uncritical examples
Cure for the LGBT+ lifestyle, His name is Jesus by PrincessMagical | DeviantArt (sometime in 2016)
Archived on Wayback Machine
Courage to Speak the Truth About Sexuality and Gender by Candice Gage | Boundless (June 2020)
Archived on Wayback Machine, Archive.today, and Ghost Archive
[video] Can I Attend a Same-Sex Wedding? | Ascension Presents (September 2020)
Archived on Wayback Machine, and Ghost Archive
Doomtown | Chick Publications (includes a depiction of child sexual abuse)
Archived on Wayback Machine, Archive.today, and Ghost Archive
Church on the Square in Georgetown Texas Meets in Blistering Heat Outside After Losing Church Lease for Speaking Out against LGBTQ Mural by Joseph Menslage | Katy Christian Magazine (June 2022)
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A Christian Message to LGBT Americans by Michael Brown | Charisma News (June 2016, written in response to the Pulse nightclub shooting)
Archived on Wayback Machine, Archive.today, and Ghost Archive
Casting God's Vision for Sex and Sexuality | Focus On The Family (July 2019)
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When Church Discipline Goes Really Public by Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra | The Gospel Coalition (December 2016)
Archived on Wayback Machine, Archive.today, and Ghost Archive
This 'He Saves Us' Ad Redeems Everything Wrong With The 'He Gets Us' Super Bowl Spot by Jordan Boyd | The Federalist (February 2024, also lists LGBTQ+ activists, drag queens, sex workers, atheists, and drug addicts as sinners alongside KKK members and jihadists)
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Commentary
The cruelty of Christians loving the sinner | Speaking When the World Sleeps (August 2013)
"I'm only doing this because I love you," and other abuse tactics in the Nashville Statement. | Emily Joy Poetry
What Happens When Gay People Are Told That Homosexuality Is A Sin? by Zack Ford | Think Progress (June 2016, uses an antisemitic argument in a graph)
How to Love the Sinner & Hate the Sin | Emily Joy Poetry (June 2016, uses a slur to make a point, discusses suicide in graphic terms)
Franklin Graham: 'The End Is Coming' Thanks To Gays, Obama by Brian Tashamn | People For (June 2015)
[video] Christian Love (some conditions apply) | Belief It Or Not (August 2021, also addresses other bigotry Christians justify as love)
2. Similarly, transantagonistic Christians try to frame themselves as loving for insisting that trans people are deceived into thinking they are not their assigned gender.
Uncritical examples
How Should We Respond to Caitlyn Jenner? by Jon Bloom | Desiring God (June 2015)
Archived on Wayback Machine, Archive.today, and Ghost Archive
I Love My Transgender Child. I Love Jesus More. by anonymous | The Gospel Coalition (November 2023)
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Joan or John? by Russell Moore | The Gospel Coalition (October 2014)
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Why Good Leaders Have Always Written Letters to the Church They Love by Todd Wagner | Watermark Community Church (October 2016, audio with transcript)
Archived on Wayback Machine, Archive.today, and Ghost Archive
This 'He Saves Us' Ad Redeems Everything Wrong With The 'He Gets Us' Super Bowl Spot by Jordan Boyd | The Federalist (February 2024, also lists LGBTQ+ activists, drag queens, sex workers, atheists, and drug addicts as sinners alongside KKK members and jihadists)
Archived on Wayback Machine, Archive.today, and Ghost Archive
When the Transgender Issue Comes Home by Josh Bishop | The Gospel Coaltion (July 2014)
Archived on Wayback Machine
Commentary
Child Sacrifice is Not Christian | Celestial Navigation (December 2023)
So This Is Love | Love, Joy, Feminism (July 2014)
3. And here are Christians claiming accepting LGBTQ+ people's genders and orientations is bad for us, because it's supposedly enabling sin and deceiving us.
Uncritical examples
Andy Stanley's 'Unconditional' Contradiction by Sam Allberry | Christianity Today (October 2023)
Archived on Wayback Machine, Archive.today, and Ghost Archive
Nicholas Wolterstorff's Cheap Shots: Why the Christian Philosopher's Case for Same-Sex Marriage is Shallow by Wesley Hill | First Things (November 2011)
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Love Your Neighbor Enough to Speak Truth by Rosaria Butterfield | The Gospel Coalition (October 2016)
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Watered-Down Gospel Messages Like 'He Gets Us' Ultimately Lead To Empty Pews by Tyler Cochran | The Federalist (February 2014)
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Commentary
How to Pretend to Welcome Trans People | Tell me why the world is weird (July 2023)
Right-wing media attack LGBTQ-affirming Christians and churches by Vesper Henry with research contributions from Alyssa Tirrell | Media Matters For America (April 2024, note that some of the people listed aren't pro-LGBTQ, but are ostracized for not being anti-LGBTQ+ enough)
Christian hostility towards LGBTQIA+ people
general | additional homoantagonism | additional transantagonism | framing anti-LGBT acts as "loving" or "brave" | intersex-antagonism | aceantagonism | other anti-LGBTQ+ bigotry