The Target bathrooms become open to transgender customers, the gay community gains strength in numbers and influence, and students are exposed to other students that are different from them. Meanwhile, half the population celebrates while the other half is infuriated.

The controversy over the LGBTQ community is an argument that has exploded in the past few years. Before now, gay and transgender people hid and lived lives of solitude, scared of being judged or exiled from their social circles. Yet a new revolution is taking place before our eyes as people all over join the LGBTQ community, stepping out from the shadows, getting married, and celebrating with the excitement of a thousand parades.

Yet on the other hand, members of communities everywhere are offended by the new revolution. Churches view being gay or transgender as going against God’s original design for humanity, and some churches have even taken their beliefs to the extreme and excommunicated gay and transgender people from their congregations and outwardly protested the revolution.

With the giant divide between the two schools of thought on the issue, couldn’t there be a middle ground? There is a way to live in harmony with people who see the world through a different lens than you do.

People of the LGBTQ community, not everyone dislikes you for what you’ve chosen in your lives. There are still people, even devout Christians, that still love you for the person that you are. Don’t let your hearts harden toward everyone that isn’t part of your community or doesn’t share the same beliefs.

People who do not support the LGBTQ community, even if you believe that being gay or transgender is a sin, you are still charged by the Bible to love those people and care for them, because they are all your brothers and sisters. You cannot use Scripture to call them out on what you believe to be their sin, when you don’t follow the main commandment in it: to love everyone.

Yes, there is a middle ground in the stormy sides of this revolution that will change the world. It is to break the issue down to its simplest form: we are all human. We all deserve to be loved.