Matthew's Journal

I'm assuming that you're referring to someone who is on their second marriage for reasons that are not considered sinful (e.g. the death of their former spouse).

I think one of the complexities about remarriage is that if you believe that remarriage is a sin, you probably also consider divorce of your new marriage to be a sin. So you might consider it to be sinful that the person got remarried, but that it is also a sin for them to get divorced now. Obviously this is a complex area to discuss in a LJ comment (and I think is a bit out of scope of the original discussion), but Jesus seemed to consider new marriages as valid (see his comments to the Samarian woman at the well in John 4 for instance).

I would consider a person who had remarried (sinfully) who repented of that sin to be in much the same position as a person who was in a homosexual relationship in the past but now repented of that sin. I wouldn't see them as essentially different.

I don't doubt though that there is an element of Christians emphasising the sins that are not their own. I remember an interview with Rick Warren over Proposition 8 where the interviewer asked Warren why they weren't equally talking about a variety of other sins, he admitted that one of the reasons would be that people don't like to criticise sins that are not their own. This isn't an argument for homosexual activity being non-sinful of course, only that we ought to look to our own sinful behaviour as well.