Disarming Hate With Love

Shane Bitney Crone has been through a lot in his young life.
The love of his life, Tom Bridegroom, died after accidentally falling from a rooftop during a photo shoot. Despite their having been together for six years, Bridegroom's family did not invite Crone to the funeral and tried to erase any evidence that their son was gay.
But the evidence is for the world to see in the acclaimed documentary Bridegroom which Crone brought this week to the University of Texas at Tyler for a screening.
Crone shares on social media that while the film was playing, a prayer circle formed in the lobby. He watched as the small group congregated and quietly prayed for 'everyone inside that theater to see the truth.'
'Apparently a local Catholic group on Facebook had put out a call to action, urging "prayer warriors" to get down to the screening of the "controversial" film,' Crone writes in a lengthy Facebook post about the incident.
Instead of getting mad, when the film finished, Crone invited the prayer group to join him for the Q&A.
'They seemed shocked by my hospitality and a few even approached me afterwards to apologize for the fact that I had been discriminated against by other Christians,' he writes.
He appreciated their sympathy but shares that their sentiments came with a caveat: 'But you have a choice to act on your impulses to sin.'
Crone said to them: 'If all sins are equal, then it's hard for me to comprehend why an entire group of you would have an emergency prayer session outside of the screening of a film that tells a love story about two men.
'If you are willing to go to such great lengths to stop everything you're doing to try and 'save' everyone who came to the screening, shouldn't you be having these same kind of prayer circles around divorce attorneys' offices to "save" people from acting on the sin of divorce?'
He also pointed out other things in the bible considered a sin such as eating shellfish or being left handed.

'I am shocked by the amount of time, energy, and money people spend trying to deny LGBT people equal rights,' he writes. 'Imagine if that same time, energy, and money were spent combating world hunger or curing cancer; the world would be a healthier, happier place, I am sure.'

Crone is absolutely correct, Jesus taught that the wages of all sin is death *all* sin.
Since everyone, including these "prayer warriors" will die and every single one of us will die, then it's safe to conclude, everyone is a sinner, including these prayer warriors.
So what makes them think they have some special dispensation to pass judgement onto others?
None whatsoever!