Didn't take long for me to bust it out:
It would be more effective if you could illustrate why you think it is appropriate.
Those same "honors" are not available to people who drink beer or smoke. If you're a pedophile, you can't have them either. If you don't pay your tithes? No soup for you. Love them or hate them, those are the rules.
I am not aware of any particular claim that smoking, drinking, and not paying tithes are considered unalterable personal traits, and active pedophiles commit immoral acts (you probably have more inactive pedophiles in good standing than either of us realizes). Certainly, none of these activities are considered the positive force that love usually is described to be. "It's the rules" is certainly one way to turn your back on bigotry, and probably less painful personally than saying to yourself that you are endorsing bigotry by silence.
Mind you, I'm not saying that the LDS owes anyone a change in the rules; it's their party, their rules. I'm just noting that the rules fit into a particular category of rules that are discriminatory.
Do you think that I think any less of Gameface because he brews his own (Award Winning) beer? Or of franklin because he gets off on midget porn? Or fishonjazz because he snorts Ambian? Or Dala because he practices Islam? (PBUH)
When did this become what I think about you? Are you iin charge of the LDS in some significant way, such that you can change their policy? I've been very clear in calling this institutionalized bigotry, not personal bigotry.
It is possible, and believe it or not, idiotically probable, to hate the sin, but love the sinner. I do it everyday, and so do you. Stop being such an easily offended bitch. (Now feel free to call me a sexist, misogynist, pig and then cry harder.)
"Hate the sin, love the sinner" is one thing when you are talking about alcohol and smoking, and an entirely different things when you are talking about reject people in their basic nature. With the former, you can make clear the separation between person and sin; with the latter, the sin is entwined inseparably into the person. The former comes across as rebuke; the latter as rejection.
Your argument against Mormons and/or religion in general is the same, tired, loathsome ********* that you spew regarding racism.
Why do you think I'm making an argument against Mormons? Aren't Mormons supposed to reject homosexuality? Aren't they supposed to consider the behavior deviant? If you indeed hate the sin, what is it that I have said that is inaccurate?
You're not black, Mormon, or gay, yet you are the end-all be-all when it comes to those subjects. Even when people are agreeing with you, you find a way to tell them they're wrong. It's awesome.
I don't claim to be the end-all-be-all; I actively encourage people to find the research that proves me wrong, if they feel such research exists.
Agreeing for the wrong reasons is not helpful.