This bishop made reference to a Leviticus passage about showing mercy to strangers, and she went on to say that everyone should receive mercy. These verses were taken out of context entirely by her. The Bible makes no mention of showing mercy toward what the LORD views as an abomination.
God makes no distinction between who we should and shouldn't show mercy to, humans do.
Additionally, God made two sexes: male and female. He intended for men and women as husbands and wives to procreate together. After the fall of Adam and Eve, suffering, disease, and death entered the world. Therefore, for example, some people are born with a disorder, others experience trauma, and so on, that make them feel they're meant to be, or attracted to, the opposite sex. Meditate on how easily
you could've been born with a disorder, or experienced a trauma, and so on, that makes you feel you're meant to be, or attracted to, the opposite sex. Then, meditate on others calling you an abomination to God for something that happened to you out of your control. Furthermore, you can't foresee the future, so for all you know, tomorrow or any day going forward, you could choose to become or be attracted to the opposite sex, for whatever reason.
What
is in each person's control is how they choose to respond to the people and circumstances that happen to and around them. What we, as Christians, shouldn't support or commit is immoralities, which is more grave if done while
knowing that it's wrong, regardless of one's sex and sexuality. If I see someone supporting or committing immorality, they're still someone made in God's image and likeness, whom He commands me to be charitable to in word and deed, just as He's charitable to me despite any immoralities He sees me commit. It's possible to be charitable towards someone while also not approving of the immortality that we see being done. None of us, with the exception of a few, are without having committed immorality, and thus what position are we in to judge others for the immoralities that they commit?
"Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful. Do not judge, and you will not be judged; and do not condemn, and you will not be condemned; pardon, and you will be pardoned. Give, and it will be given to you." (Lk. 6:36-38)
"For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment." (Jas. 2:13)