"We were shouting, 'We forgive you, we love you,"
They didn't say we love your sin, they said we love you.
I believe the Christian aphorism is "Love the sinner, but hate the sin."
Perhaps someone who is actually a Christian can verify this?
You are correct.
Over the last week or so I have seen quite a few self professing "Christians" say quite a few un-Christian and un charitable things about others that claim to be Christian. I guess it really came to a head yesterday on two threads, when I saw the glee at the news that Fred Phelps Sr. is near death. Instead of praying that he gets himself right with God they are hoping he gets sent to hell and that people picket his funeral etc...
Yes. It is true — “For even while we were enemies of Christ, he died to save us.” (Romans)
And... John 3:17 “That through Him the world would be saved and not condemned.”
Paraphrasing both, but you have the right idea. God love ALL of us. But He does not like sin.