Church cancels memorial because he was GAY. WTF?

[lonestarnot]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20221295/


Church learns vet was gay, cancels memorial
Texas congregation acted out of principle, not malice, pastor says

Tony Gutierrez / AP
Kathleen Wright holds an image of her brother, Cecil Sinclair, who recently passed away, on Friday, Aug. 10. Relatives of Sinclair, a gay Navy veteran, say they are upset that a megachurch canceled his memorial service 24 hours before it was to start.
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[Sparkly]

1. It's about "principle."

“We did decline to host the service — not based on hatred, not based on discrimination, but based on principle,” Simons told The Associated Press.

And that principle would be...?

[lonestarnot]

2. Principle of hate.

[Liberal Veteran]

7. No doubt the old "Hate the sin, not the sinner" chestnut came up.

In my experience, most of those who say that actually do hate both.

[helderheid]

5. Hatred and discrimination, apparently

[Liberal Veteran]

3. And people wonder why many people have a bad impression of Christianity

Seems like every time someone criticizes cases like these, we are admonished to keep in mind that some Christians are open-minded.

[msongs]

4. standard operational procedure in the megachurch mob nt

[babylonsister]

6. Hard to believe, isn't it. nt

[lonestarnot]

8. Ugh no. Unfortunately, no.

[NMMNG]

9. Of course

Because acting on principle they also refuse to hold funerals for anybody who ever was divorced, committed adultery, sassed their parents, wore gold/pearl jewelry, stole anything, took the name of the lord in vain, lied, wore clothing made of two different kinds of cloth, cut the hair at the sides of their head, etc, etc. :sarcasm:

[lonestarnot]

12. and don't forget danced. Dance Dance Dance!

[BlooInBloo]

13. MY grandma, she's 92; she loves to dance and sing some too...

:rofl:

[NMMNG]

14. That too

Never mind that David did it. He's burning in hell right now.

[Bitwit1234]

10. So these people are christian.

Do they belong to a sect all their own.

[BlooInBloo]

11. It's the christian thing to do.

[Obamarama]

15. This is precisely why I loathe all fundamentalist "Christians" and will have nothing to do with them

I have no use for their brand of thinking and prejudice. If they are co-workers I keep things to business only, with no social chit-chat. If I see resumes come in with degrees listed from evangelical "colleges" I look to find enough things in the resume to either disqualify them for the position they are applying for or move others ahead of them far enough that they won't be considered.

I'm just treating them as they would treat me. Turn the other cheek? Hell no. It's beyond turning the cheek with these annoying cross-toting little cockroaches.

[CountAllVotes]

16. how sickening!

:wtf: does sexual orientation have to do with a person's right to have a funeral mass said?

These people are indeed the sick ones!

I hope they all rot in hell!

:kick:

[lonestarnot]

17. Just like the Churchlady at drivers school who has a phobia of the disabled.

Wants to ban them all from driving.

[yella_dawg]

18. The guy is not Gay

He's dead. There is a hell of a lot of difference.

Principles my ass.

Bunch of sick, twisted perverts claiming Holy sanction.

[Lex]

19. There's a special place in hell being reserved for those 'church folks.'

:mad:

[nini]

20. I worked with a woman once who's son died of AIDS.. the service was hell

The so called man of God decided to use the entire memorial attacking homosexuality and basically said AIDS was his punishment. His wonderful mother was stunned and mortified. It was so bad it makes the local papers.


I am always amazed how these so called Christians forget the most basic teaching of Christ regarding treating other human beings with respect and compaasion.


:grr:

[CountAllVotes]

21. what sort of "church" was this?

I am horrified!

Not even the god awful Catholic church would do something like this (enough said on that subject).

:kick:

[nini]

22. I don't remember sure.. it wasn't Catholic though

it was a smaller Presbyterian type thing.

[yardwork]

26. Oops. Responding to wrong post.

[BlooInBloo]

23. They don't "forget" them They never believed in them in the first place. They're liars.

[lonestarnot]

24. I would have run him out on a rail in the middle of this memorializing.

[nini]

27. The woman worked for a disabled students office at a local college

Her 'students' let him have it.... wheelchairs went up to the front and fired away at him. :-)

Dorothy was like their mom and they stood up for her.

[lonestarnot]

28. Excellent!

Poor Dorothy. :hug:

[yardwork]

25. More comments on the LBN thread on this story.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=2949599&mesg_id=2949599

[Arugula Latte]

29. Imagine a world without religion ... How much better off we'd all be. nt