Opinion: Love the sinner, hate the sin is an empty slogan

 
Mark Guevarra is deeply committed to his Catholic faith. He is also gay. For almost a decade that I have known him, he has conducted pastoral work for the Catholic Church quietly and with dignity. Bound to his faith, all these years he has kept his private life private.
One would have thought that religious teachings against gossip, slander and backbiting would have allowed churchgoers to let him observe his faith dutifully. But such is often not the case with the outwardly religious folk