The problem arises because many people these days - you being one of them, Faz - insist on trying to make “Christian” mean spineless. Yes, to be Christian one must love one’s neighbour. The problem is that “love” is never defined correctly. While it remains in the realm of “fuzzy, warm inner feeling”, you will never be really talking about love, but simply sentiment, and such “love” is not what the Christian is supposed to practice.
Love, correctly defined, means the willing of good towards the other, and the willing of good does not include countenancing what is harmful to the soul of the other.
Specifically in regard to this case, if the teacher had not sought to “out” himself, all might have been well, but by proclaiming himself to be homosexual, he was stating that in his view, homosexuality was not immoral, and indicating his willingness to be a source of scandal to the rest of the school population. Fake “Christianity” would ignore it; true Christianity demanded that the scandal be averted.
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