One of the ways the “religious” crowd get around the responsibility for their bigotry and acts of discrimination is to claim that their religious belief are such that while they do not hate the sinner, they only hate the “sin”.
They claim their actions are directed only toward the sin, although in many, if not most cases, those who say this have no way of knowing if those who are guilty of the sin of acting Gay are guilty of no more than being Gay.
Whereas they may accept the existence of heterosexual virgins, they refuse to accept that there are any Gay ones.
They cannot conceive of the being without the action.
It is as if they look past the person, who might be average, or even very boringly common place, and prefer to dwell on what they imagine the action to be, a form of self created pornography.
And they enjoy it.
If they were actually interested in the person, the sinner, rather than closing their businesses to them or refusing service, you would think that they would have someone sitting outside their doors prepared to hear the confessions of those who wish to enter, but who know themselves to be sinners.
In this way, they would no only be increasing their profits while saving souls, but they would be creating jobs as they would have to hire the confessor.