Oh, He Was Gay? Then We Can’t Have the Funeral Here
by: Rev. DanVia MSNBC:
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.”
In a shockingly consistent move, High Point Church has issued a statement declaring that from now on they’re not going to have funeral services for those known to have been obese, gossipy, licentious, a tax collector, a prostitute, a liberal, movie-attending, born in Galilee (’cause they’re obviously and illegal immigrant, y’know), or to have eaten “cloven-hooved animals.”*
I can’t imagine how shocked the church staff must have been to see people loving each other. That’s certainly not the sort of thing that happens at church, is it?
(* Not really… we all know Christianism has nothing to do with consistency or integrity.)
:::sigh:::… gays are the lepers of the evangelical church.
See, it’s really the fault of that dude that he didn’t walk around calling, “Unclean! Unclean!”. Then nobody would have scheduled his funeral thinking he was a normal human being rather than a homo.