Shopping613:
I appreciate your perspective. And achdus is a wonderful thing, as was recently demonstrated when hundreds of thousands of Jews worldwide davened for the physical and spiritual safety of our brethren in E”Y.
First, one should be careful who they are friends with. Friends have tremendous influence on people in many ways, subtle and otherwise. Being respectful or associating in various contexts is one thing; being friends with them is quite another.
We daven each day to be saved “meChaver ra”.
As others have pointed out, there is an eis lisno. Dovid HaMelech also wrote “Misanecha Hashem esna…”
Hashem created this midah, like everything else, for a purpose.
Besides for this point, there is a difference between the sinner and the sin. To respect the sinner despite their sin is one matter. But in no way can this extend to respecting the sin itself.
edited for extraneous, derogatory political comments of the very nature that posters in this thread were asked to refrain from (in this thread)