“Love the sinner, hate the sin” is a phrase we have heard countless times from right-wing Christians attempting to pass off their anti-gay bigotry as an act of love. We have never quite understood how that was supposed to work and neither does “Coach” Dave Daubenmire who declared on his latest video commentary that the concept, while nice in principle, is pretty much nonsense.
“That isn’t anywhere in Scripture,” Daubenmire said of the trite phrase. “You cannot separate the sin from the person. The person becomes poisoned with the sin and for us to be able to say ‘well, I love the sinner but I hate that sin,” that just doesn’t fly.”
“Folks, you cannot separate those two things,” he declared. “You cannot separate the sinner from his sin”:
