It is my belief (as a centrist to center-left libertarian leaning Christian) that it is not the job of a Christian to force other people to live as Christians at gunpoint. If you believe Jesus to be whom he said he was (as I, and other Christians, do), you have to believe that he had the power to compel external obedience to his every word if he wished to do so. He didn't. Instead, he showed the poor, the prostitutes, the diseased, the outcast, and yes, the sinners, that he loved them, and God loved them. The people Jesus castigated most harshly weren't the "sinners," but the self-righteous religious leaders who thought themselves SO much better than "those other people."
I can tell you, based on my understand of the Bible, that I believe God disapproves of this or that behavior. But your response to his dictates is between you and him, and it is not my job or my calling to pass laws to MAKE you live by my interpretation thereof.
My thoughts exactly. Thank you.
