A commenter named Chad (a friend of Sean) sent me a clip to the full answer to the question…

Here’s a link to the original post.

Here’s his comment…

I read hundreds of blogs each day and rarely respond, but I had to on this one. I personally know Sean McDowell and have worked with him in ministry for the past 3 years. This blog post hurt me because I know the kind of man Sean is, especially since I was at this event and know the rest of the context to this answer he gave. Isn’t it interesting that the clip was edited without the remaining 2 minutes of his response?

I’m not sure what’s being implied here, whether or not Chris believes that I made this video and edited the two minutes out of it remains to be seen (I’ve sent him a personal email). But again, I did not create this video. I didn’t manipulate Sean’s answer in any way. This clip was loaded onto YouTube by Interlinc (see for yourself!) and sent it out to their full list of youth pastors… they edited the link, choosing to cut Sean’s answer…

His [Sean’s] answer is summed up best by saying “Patient, but loving opposition” in how we are to love our friends, family members, and anyone who are in sin (Gay, Living with a significant other, sleeping around, lying, etc.) He goes on to explain that later in the video. While we can love them, it’s also very important to stand on God’s truths, which is He Loves them, but a sin is a sin. We’re not someone’s friend if we aren’t making that known in a “loving and patient” way.

This is great conversation and MPT has the right to post these kind of blogs to get responses, I just wish that he would have posted the full response, which is readily available, rather than editing it and leading the audience to feel a specific way even prior to people reading the blog.

Once again, I didn’t edit the clip.

I hope each of you take the time to watch the full link to understand Sean’s response and heart better. -Chad

I hope you watch it too. It certainly adds some context. I still think Sean’s examples lack substance (i.e., his friend’s neighbor in New Joolsy and his lazy basketball-playing friend) and his overall point is incorrect. I don’t believe that “gay” is a choice. I know many who read my blog disagree and that’s fine. But that’s my opinion, that “being gay” isn’t simply, as Sean says, a “bad choice” that you can stop choosing.

However, my goal is never to misrepresent somebody’s views or opinions, which is why I’m posting the complete answer as a new post rather than simply linking to it.