Church Cancels Memorial for Gay Navy Vet

[gatorboy]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20070811/gay-funeral/

ARLINGTON, Texas — A megachurch canceled a memorial service for a Navy veteran 24 hours before it was to start because the deceased was gay.

Officials at the nondenominational High Point Church knew that Cecil Howard Sinclair was gay when they offered to host his service, said his sister, Kathleen Wright. But after his obituary listed his life partner as one of his survivors, she said, it was called off.

"It's a slap in the face. It's like, 'Oh, we're sorry he died, but he's gay so we can't help you,'" she said Friday.

Wright said High Point offered to hold the service for Sinclair because their brother is a janitor there. Sinclair, who served in the first Gulf War, died Monday at age 46 from an infection after surgery to prepare him for a heart transplant.

The church's pastor, the Rev. Gary Simons, said no one knew Sinclair, who was not a church member, was gay until the day before the Thursday service, when staff members putting together his video tribute saw pictures of men "engaging in clear affection, kissing and embracing."

[1620rock]

1. WWJD.

[sharp_stick]

2. Got to love those "men of God"

Assholes every fucking one of them.

[frogcycle]

4. poor choice of words there

[pingzing58]

3. The things that are done in the name of God. Judge not and you shall not be judged!

[frogcycle]

5. i so, so hope this backfires

if there is ANY validity to the so-called religion these people espouse, they will can this "minister"

the hypocrisy is just overwhelming

how many of the congregation do you suppose use that "what would jesus do?" slogan all the damned time?

the guy was a veteran, working as a janitor at their so-called church; they were already prepared to have a service for him, and canceled because they found out he was gay. What if they had found out he was a heterosexual pedophile? What if they had found out he was a murderer? What if they had found out he was a bank robber? Dollars to donuts they would magnanimously "forgive" these illegal acts and hold the service.

[DeSwiss]

6. NOTICE: For all Christian supporters...

...of America's Service men and women, who wish to display the "Yellow Ribbon" there has been a "slight" clarification....



:sarcasm:

[frogcycle]

7. off topic but re christian hypocrisy/stupidity

I was just updating my KIA website, searching for links to articles/tributes -

one recent KIA was muslim; the article makes much of the fact that he and his family wanted to show that "not all muslims are bad" - he joined right after 9/11; needed parental permission to join so young...

so a bunch of people have entered their pro-forma cut-and-paste "tributes" on the tribute page, just loaded with "he is with jesus now..." and such.

I guess if he were a gay muslim, jesus would not be so forgiving, huh?

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