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Church learns vet was gay, cancels memorial

Church learns vet was gay, cancels memorial

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Church learns vet was gay, cancels memorial#1

Posted: 8/11/07 at 6:39pm

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.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20221295/?GT1=10252


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re: Church learns vet was gay, cancels memorial#2

Posted: 8/11/07 at 6:44pm


W H A T ?

I really meant to say WHAT SH*T ! Updated On: 8/11/07 at 06:44 PM

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re: Church learns vet was gay, cancels memorial#2

Posted: 8/11/07 at 6:45pm

Ugh.


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re: Church learns vet was gay, cancels memorial#3

Posted: 8/11/07 at 6:47pm

Enough is enough.


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re: Church learns vet was gay, cancels memorial#4

Posted: 8/11/07 at 6:48pm

Thats horrible.



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re: Church learns vet was gay, cancels memorial#5

Posted: 8/11/07 at 6:49pm

BULLSH*T

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re: Church learns vet was gay, cancels memorial#6

Posted: 8/11/07 at 6:52pm

Not surprising. There came a point when my grandmother became too old to make the weekly trip to church. After about a month she received a letter from her "concerned" pastor. He wanted to let her know that he had noticed that her weekly budget envelopes had stopped. Budget envelopes are numbered (apparently so they can track your contributions) envelopes the church sends to parishioners to use for their weekly contribution in the collection plate. He told her that she had to be careful to maintain her status as an active member of the parish or she would not be able to be buried out of that church. I about had a fart attack when I read the letter. church=love.


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re: Church learns vet was gay, cancels memorial#7

Posted: 8/11/07 at 6:56pm

Absolutely disgusting.


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re: Church learns vet was gay, cancels memorial#8

Posted: 8/11/07 at 7:12pm

What a crappy church.


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re: Church learns vet was gay, cancels memorial#9

Posted: 8/11/07 at 7:24pm

That is so wrong. How do people get away with that?

BTW:
Mateo your avatar could not be more gay if that was a dildo he was holding. LOL


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re: Church learns vet was gay, cancels memorial#10

Posted: 8/11/07 at 7:30pm

Certainly not surprising - and that is the sickest and saddest part of all.

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re: Church learns vet was gay, cancels memorial#11

Posted: 8/11/07 at 7:36pm

I'm not sure which is worse, dis-honring that brave vet, or bullying that poor elderly woman.

I hope the vet's family realizes how unimportant and phony that service would have been. They can honor him in their hearts which is the only place that matters anyway.


....but the world goes 'round

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re: Church learns vet was gay, cancels memorial#12

Posted: 8/11/07 at 7:55pm

I have to admit, when I read the title I fully expected it to be a Catholic church.


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re: Church learns vet was gay, cancels memorial#13

Posted: 8/11/07 at 8:01pm

Ain't organized religion GREAT?


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re: Church learns vet was gay, cancels memorial#14

Posted: 8/11/07 at 8:09pm

Jesus would be PISSED. "Christian" my ass.


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re: Church learns vet was gay, cancels memorial#15

Posted: 8/11/07 at 8:23pm

Never assume


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re: Church learns vet was gay, cancels memorial#16

Posted: 8/11/07 at 8:50pm

I have to admit, when I read the title I fully expected it to be a Catholic church.

Is there a difference?


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re: Church learns vet was gay, cancels memorial#17

Posted: 8/11/07 at 8:56pm

What bull. That is just awful.

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re: Church learns vet was gay, cancels memorial#18

Posted: 8/11/07 at 9:15pm

Utterly disgusting.

The best part of the articles was a quote from the church's pastor:
“Even though we could not condone that lifestyle, we went above and beyond for the family through many acts of love and kindness,”

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re: Church learns vet was gay, cancels memorial#19

Posted: 8/11/07 at 9:31pm

could we all please stop feigning shock. This is not suprising at all. The first rule of christianity is if you a fag you out. And people wonder why I'm an atheist

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re: Church learns vet was gay, cancels memorial#20

Posted: 8/11/07 at 9:37pm

I have to admit, when I read the title I fully expected it to be a Catholic church.

Is there a difference?


Alright, I'm going to do this for the one millionth time- because it really bothers me when people say this sort of thing. I have grown up an active member of the Catholic Church and for every part of my education have attended catholic schools- and I have NEVER been taught something like this. The message I have always received in my encounters with Catholicism was that even if you don't agree with the way a person lived his or her life (and yes, since some people don't "agree" with homosexuality, that falls under this example) it isn't your place to judge or discriminate against them. The message put across by Jesus was to love everyone. If you pay attention the Bible that people so often love to quote and use, Jesus gave the most love and attention to those who were oppressed- in this day it would include homosexuals.

You would never, ever see this happen, the canceling, at my parish, or any Catholic Church in my area. I'm tired of people lumping the entirety of Catholicism in with this sort of situation. When I saw the title of this article, I thought "well its probably not a Catholic Church." Catholics are forever getting thought the worst of, when, in any experience I have its been the evangelical or nondenominational churches.

Is the Catholic church perfect? Absolutely not. Is it horrible and always to be considered the center evil? No, because while every Catholic place is handled differently, I have never in my life encountered a Catholic Parish that would react this way. So before you go and dismiss us all, and my entire church, as homosexual hating people, realize that by doing that you're being as narrow minded towards Catholics as you are accusing them of being towards homosexuals.


And hang on, when did you win the discus?

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re: Church learns vet was gay, cancels memorial#21

Posted: 8/11/07 at 9:39pm

bythesword, as a Catholic, I agree we ARE taught that, but it doesn't mean everyone follows it.


I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.

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re: Church learns vet was gay, cancels memorial#22

Posted: 8/11/07 at 9:44pm

I was also raised Catholic, I believe that people learn more from what they see than what they hear and read, and though we were always "taught" not to judge others in words and readings that is not the message that I got growing up about love and acceptance of certain other groups....unfortunatlly!


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re: Church learns vet was gay, cancels memorial#23

Posted: 8/11/07 at 9:45pm

This is a g*ddamn disgrace.


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re: Church learns vet was gay, cancels memorial#24

Posted: 8/11/07 at 9:47pm

Oh, I know everyone doesn't follow it, thats why I was saying it wasn't perfect, but to read something like that and automatically think it would be a Catholic institution is just wrong and insulting to those of us who do know what we were taught. I think the fact that we are even taught the notion that you are meant to accept everyone (and everything I wrote in my post that I don't want to rehash here) separates us from some religions that don't teach that. It wasn't meant as a "Catholics are the Best Ever" post, but to point out that its unfair to blanket statement Catholicism as the most likely source of an evil action.


*edited for spelling


And hang on, when did you win the discus?
Updated On: 8/11/07 at 09:47 PM


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