It sounds like Brown is grasping for shreds of human decency in his anti-LGBTQ polemics — grasping and failing.

Major life changes, to be crystal clear, means learning to reject partnership and intimacy, living celibate and alone, having no nuclear family.

Perhaps Brown should imagine those circumstances and ask himself if he would accept them.

I guess he'd probably say yes, but then he isn't gay, and over his career he's shown little to no ability to imagine the lived experiences of people who are different from him.

He's trying really hard (but failing) to reconcile his ideals of Christian love with his Christian-based exclusion/mistreatment of queer people.

Does he really imagine that gay and trans people will give themselves over to lives of sacrifice and pain that he doesn't require of himself? I suspect he doesn't imagine that, yet he keeps on keeping on with his anti-LGBTQ broadsides.

That makes his talk of love not just suspect, but a little bit ridiculous.