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Love has nothing to do with lifestyle. You can certainly love someone yet not approve of their chosen lifestyle.
In fact many times loving someone honestly will mean making them aware that their chosen lifestyle is not what God desires for their life.
Accepting a lifestyle that is without God’s blessings (because any lifestyle that eliminates God is without God’s blessings as a result of turning from God or His will and blocking Him out) is accepting evil in all it’s ways. We do not accept evil.
We love the sinner but hate the evil that has twisted their way of doing things. Jesus told the woman caught in adultery to go and sin no more, but He made it abundantly clear that those present were not without sin either.
The fine line is to be able to tell someone their sin is sin and not acceptable, while maintaining their respect. The woman caught in adultery clearly didn’t run off in a huff, she was shown respect, compassion and made to feel safe before Jesus tells her to stop doing what she was doing The Bible tells us that we are to love people.
The Bible also calls certain thoughts, words and actions sinful. Both truths are in the Bible. You cannot exclude one, nor can you exclude the other.
“Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.” (1Cor 6:9-11)
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