Ephesians 5:3
But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints.
Modern Western evangelicalism is more zealous to dissociate itself from the sin of being accused of being homophobic than it is from the actual, tangible sin of homosexuality.
Homophobia being named among them is anathema and anyone accused thereof is informally excommunicated from the speaking circuit. In other words, many have a phobia of being thought of as homophobic. Let's call it, "homophobiaphobic."
All that to say, many Christians would rather fellowship with sin than with those who are accused of confronting sin too harshly. They are more allergic to the idea of being called intolerant than they are to the reality of tolerating evil.
Of course, we ought to love homosexuals and share the Good News of the Gospel of God with them for such were some of us (1 Cor. 6:11,) but that is loving them on Christ's terms, not loving them on theirs. We cannot submit to their definitions of love and tolerance in order to try to win them to ours.
You cannot win someone to the merits of chastity by giving them your virginity.
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