If you're a Christian living in a secular state, and you've made a commitment to God to be a Christian, then that's your commitment. So, as far as your own life goes, you should make a genuine effort to discontinue any sinful behaviors you're aware you're undertaking. That doesn't mean you're going to become a saint the moment you profess to be saved, but you try daily. Sometimes you fail, but you keep trying regardless. The same goes for other Christians: if anybody else (a gay person, a cheater, an alcoholic, a gambler) has made a personal choice to be a Christian, then they should also make a genuine and concerted effort to discontinue any sinful behaviours that they are aware they are undertaking.
I find it quite amusing to have an atheist lecturing this forum on how a Christian should behave. Were you once a Christian then walked away? Did you read this in a book? A website? AA?
Please try very hard not to lecture us on how and what a Christian does, in an effort to connect before you start with the secular dogma of live and let live, meaning let the gays do what they want.
When the gay agenda is constantly rubbed in our faces, when the gay lobby takes away our rights to live as Christians -such as demanding we have to make wedding cakes for gay people, and get fined when we refuse it is the Christians whose rights are being eroded.
If you cared in the slightest about the values of "tolerance" you would be seeing that basically, besides the media and television programming and propaganda that the gay lobby is engaging in, that Christians are not being allowed their rights to follow God's Word.
Like the fight that raged on for 20 years the school district I taught in, where a gay activist brought homosexual books into a classroom, and then pushed it to the Supreme Court, for the right to indoctrinate grade 1 kids as to how "normal" homosexual relationships are. And won!
Today I read that in Canada, private schools are growing at an incredible rate - as much as 30% per year in some provinces. Of course, lax standards and expectations, bad curriculums and poorly trained teachers are part of that. But a lot of parents, Christian, Muslim, Sikh, Hindu (yep, most of the major religions of the world!) are just sick to death of the indoctrination that is contrary to the deeply held beliefs of their faiths that is characterized in modern schools.
This is NOT recent, either. It has been going for decades, as the gay lobby movement attempts to pervert the souls and minds of not just secular students, but Christian and other faiths' children. I watched this as a teacher. I received the propaganda and refused to teach it. In fact, at Christmas and Easter, I talked about Jesus, and who he was and what he came to do. Because most of the children had literally never heard the truth of what these Christian holidays were about. And I never had a complaint in 20 years, except one year when I was first sick, and I cancelled the Christmas music program, and all the parents, from every ethniic and religious background wanted me to bring it back! Yes! They wanted their children to be educated as to what these important Christian holidays were about (I taught in an area with up to 99% ESL, primarily Sikhs from the Punjab!)
So no, not going to go for your "hands off my rights" rhetoric, when in fact, it is the gay lobby with their insidious agenda that is the one that is depriving the majority of their rights. And sadly, this lobby is such a small percentage of a small percentage of the population of our countries!