Don't you think the family is under attack? I mean gays?

You look at them as people. You don't know Thier life. They may b celebate.
I am against any form of physical affection in public, gay, straight etc.

So embrace your family and not focus on Thier lifestyles. It's not a sin to be gay..it's a sin to act on it.

Jesus sat with sinners and saints ..every person needs Jesus.

If they are toxic and mean and flaunt it that's another story.

‘The gays’ are a very popular boogie man. Are they going around and actually attacking families now? Are they trying to pass laws to prevent ‘the straights’ from getting married? Are they trying to have ‘the straights’ sterilized?’ Are they trying to pass laws to prevent ‘the straights’ from adopting children? Are they telling ‘the straights’ they can’t hold hands in public?

To be clear comments posted here or elsewhere can be and often are addressed to a larger audience than those directly above or even those participating in a thread. This may even include posts with others’ comments quoted. All that said:

I am deeply hurt by ‘straights’ in the church who are arrogant and have caused division in my family. (literally…seriously…truly).

How is it possible to see Christ in this?
(rhetorical…please don’t answer)

We often hear some persons claim to be ‘okay with gays’ as long as they don’t ‘flaunt it.’ So often we see such a statement followed by the corollary, ‘sexuality has no place is public.’

This corollary is often indulged in by persons who: holds hands with their spouse, lay a hand on their forearm, lay a hand just on top of theirs, put an arm over their shoulder, put a hand on their back, and perhaps exchange an actual kiss at the kiss of peace.

(The arm over the shoulder is particularly ridiculous. It’s completely acceptable between two males as father and son, extended family members, friends, but but but…if it’s ‘the gays’ they are flaunting their sexuality.)

What we really hear in these statements is not a problem with ‘public displays of sexuality/affection;’ we are actually hearing a desire to drive ‘the gays’ from the public square. This is a good example of how deeply, culturally embedded these oppressive attitudes are.

If persons are willing to repudiate all the mentioned behaviors among all persons (hetero or homosexual) bully for them, but what an awful loveless dead world that would be. It would also be reasonable to approve all the mentioned behaviors for public use by ‘the gays.’

This a good example of using ‘faith’ as a cudgel to bully, condemn, and intimidate persons. Of course the ‘faith’ part has been mercilessly twisted to suit the desired narrative. Same-sex attraction IS NOT…IS NOT…IS NOT a sin.

These bigoted and oppressive attitudes are so deeply engrained in the culture persons making such statements as those above don’t even give it a second thought. It’s all the same…it doesn’t matter…it’s just persons all in the same ‘category’ to be condemned…ho-hum another day to be a good Christian…

Certainly everyone needs prayers.

The question is will those who approve of two sisters holding hands in public acknowledge two gay men holding hands is also acceptable public behavior?

I also think it's time to develop our own spiritual life in Christ and stop paying attention to things that are not conducive to His love.

Persons are welcome to develop any spiritual life they wish. Persons are welcome to pay attention, or not, to whatever they please. Person should expect pushback when they are actively and publicly engaging in or agitating for the closing of conduits of love to certain persons in a Christian context.

That just reminded me of something as a kid.  If we did something nasty to each other my mother would say "don't be a Jew".  As an adult I was asking my siblings did they remember that.  We all agreed that one day it just suddenly stopped being a thing in Mums chastisement which I assume came from Vatican II.  But that was the underlying prejudice that had to be thoroughly rooted out by the Church going forward.  People of a certain age still continued to carry some remnants of that attitude subconsciously and you could detect in ways other than explicitly.