Introduction:
- This past summer a well touted women’s soccer player named Jaelene Hinkle was not included on the Women’s National Team that won the World Cup. People have speculated over whether that was a decision based on her talent or because she earlier refused to play in a game in which the team was required to wear rainbow jerseys to support Gay Pride month. Now, I don’t know which it was… but a backup goalie for the Women’s Team later put a tweet out that made her personal views clear… “Hinkle, our team is about inclusion. Your religion was never the problem. The problem is your intolerance and you are homophobic. You don’t belong in a sport that aims to unite and bring people together. You would never fit into our pack or what this team stands for.”
- This provides a good summary of the no-judgment gospel… that to judge someone else means that you are intolerant and, in this case, homophopic.
- But we want to ask, is that really true? And how does that line up with what the Bible says about judgment… particularly God’s judgment.