See, you don't have to like or agree with everything a person says or does but the vitriolic rhetoric against those who offer compassion, understanding and acceptance to our LGBT brothers and sisters is counter to Christ's gospel of love, inclusion and acceptance of all God's children.
Christ said there were two commandments that were the greatest, that are the foundation of all other commandments. And that all the Prophets hang on these two commandments.
36 Master, which is the great commandment in the law?
37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
38 This is the first and great commandment.
39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets. Matthew 22:36-40
All of God's children being on equal footing is part of His plan. And if love, tolerance, understanding and forgiveness is an evil agenda or a trap to you then blame Christ because that's His gospel.
We can be peaceable to those we disagree with because Jesus taught us that we should love our enemies and pray for those that curse us. And we wouldn't be taught something by Christ if it were impossible to do.
But many want to justify their beliefs and hatreds above following Christ's teachings. Some wish to annotate scripture with exceptions to teachings they would rather not follow.
However we view our brothers and sisters let us not revile them or scours them or justify our hatred of them.
Let's us instead forgive them their trespasses as we seek forgiveness for our trespasses. Let us seek to understand what we have misunderstood and misrepresented. Let us prove our love and respect for God by loving and respecting every one of His children.
Thomas S. Monson gave a talk called "Love:The essence of the gospel" in which he said this "We cannot truly love God if we do not love our fellow travelers on this mortal journey. Likewise, we cannot fully love our fellowmen if we do not love God, the Father of us all. The Apostle John tells us, “This commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.”3 We are all spirit children of our Heavenly Father and, as such, are brothers and sisters. As we keep this truth in mind, loving all of God’s children will become easier.
Actually, love is the very essence of the gospel, and Jesus Christ is our Exemplar. His life was a legacy of love. The sick He healed; the downtrodden He lifted; the sinner He saved. At the end the angry mob took His life. And yet there rings from Golgotha’s hill the words: “Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do”4—a crowning expression in mortality of compassion and love."
It's much easier to know the gospel path than it is to follow it. But the agenda of the gospel is love and the fruits that come with it.
