Punishment for heresy is excommunication, used to be a fine and or imprisonment and sometimes to be burnt alive. Bible says to warn them twice then ignore them entirely ostracizing them from society. If they were real christens they should be canceling each other for biblical wrong think. Its hilarious that people who dont follow the faith, regularly know more about what the bible says then people who are adamant "followers".
It may be convenient to distance yourself from this, but Christians that don't actively support LGBTQ+ issues are still Christians. They're not "heretics".
In fact, I would say that the Christians that have decided to ignore parts of their supposed holy book because it isn't convenient are more akin to "heretics."
The bible is full of hate and bigotry, and it is very clear about homosexuality. As much as people want them to be, the two are not compatible.
I expect they were using the term heretic because "evangelical" generally implies protestantism, which split off from catholicism and so could technically be considered a heresy of it
I'm Atheist but I guess you could rationalize it this way, Jesus never actually says anything about being gay in the new testament. That stuff comes from Paul's letters.
Ok...? So you can ignore the entire old testament?
So is the Bible not God's word then? Or only parts of it are? Who gets to decide which parts?
If there are parts in our current Bible that were included erroneously, then how can you know that others weren't as well? How can you know that there aren't other books that should have been included, but weren't? Lots of gnostic gospels with some interesting stories, who gets to determine which ones are "real"?