Don't judge? Denounce!

This Christmas I was uninvited to a family gathering because of my support for my church's position on human sexuality and morality. I was told that I was to follow the Biblical admonishment to not judge. 

Of course I was being judged, but I didn't bother to point that out.

Everyone makes judgements. When is it appropriate to say something?

The following quotes from Crisis came to me in a timely post, 

We live in an age that regards the identification of sin as the worst of all sins. As Regis Nicoll points out, “Today instead of 10 commandments, there is just one: thou shalt not judge.” Even within Christian circles, it is common to hear the phrases “Don’t judge” or “I’m not judging.” So afraid are we to commit this transgression called judgment that we hesitate to call out even the most blatant of wrongs...

....The truly tragic thing about this moratorium on judgment is its ironic consequence of creating a vastly more judgmental world. The “nonjudgment” worldview holds that behavior is mostly OK, so long as it doesn’t have negative consequences for other people....

When we allow fear to eclipse our responsibilities to admonish grave wrongs and encourage virtue over vice, we abandon duties central to Christianity. Instructing the ignorant and admonishing the sinner are spiritual works of mercy that we seem to have abandoned due to the misguided notion that it harms rather than helps our neighbor.

...If our culture succeeds in sanitizing our discourse of moral values, of appeals to the good, all that will be left to govern our future is power. We cannot leave our future to the hands of whichever perspective manages to amass the most power—void of any criterion on which to judge the value of that viewpoint. So, let us own our prophetic call as Christians and, with it, our right to denounce certain practices and promote others according to the criteria of love and goodness established by the Word of God. 

For the sake of individual souls as well as the future generations we will never know, we must refuse to be silent. We must raise our voices, however “unsafe” our echoes may resound in delicate ears. When they accuse us of judgment, let them. 

Let them!