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Funeral for Transgender Teen Leelah Alcorn Moved Because of 'Threats'
nbcnews.com ^ | Jan. 2, 2015 | Elisha Fieldstadt and Scott Newell

Posted on 01/03/2015 1:52:29 PM PST by PROCON

The funeral for an Ohio transgender teen whose death and suicide note struck a chord across the country was moved Friday and held privately after threats against the family. Leelah Alcorn, 17, died Sunday after writing in an online diary that her parents didn't accept that she identified as female.

Tim Tripp, the family minister at Northeast Church of Christ in Cincinnati, told NBC News the funeral had been moved to a private location because "the times and dates had been publicized, and the family's received threats." Tripp wouldn't specify what threats surrounded the funeral, other than to say the family had heard there would be "disruptions." Mourners arriving at the church Friday found a sign on the door announcing the service's postponement. Jeff Hartmann, of Hodapp Funeral Home, said the private service was held there Friday morning. He said Alcorn's body was to be cremated.

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KEYWORDS: homosexualagenda; joshuaalcorn; leelahalcorn; transgender
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To: 4yearlurker

There’s a lot of people upset with his parents - I think they are the ones receiving threats. I read the suicide note - yes his parents were mentioned, but he wrote so much more. Of course, people are going to zero on in his “terrible” parents. God help them. I pray for them and the truck driver.


21 posted on 01/03/2015 2:30:43 PM PST by peggybac (My boss I respect, my father I revered. Chris Rock, Mr. Obama is NOT my boss or my father.)
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To: PROCON

He chose to call himself “Leelah.” Was his real name Haleel?

If you were just inventing a female character for a story or game, would you choose “Leelah”?


22 posted on 01/03/2015 2:43:32 PM PST by Tax-chick (Start the new year right. Donate to Free Republic and adopt a kitten!)
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To: PROCON
struck a chord

That is so much cr@p.

23 posted on 01/03/2015 2:47:02 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: Tax-chick

Probably wanted his new name to be Lalah but was afraid of the Muslims.


24 posted on 01/03/2015 2:49:55 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: SaraJohnson

God loved this soul and died that he might live. This teen bought lies that were whispered to him. God still loved His child regardless and mourns just as the kids earthly parents do. It’s sin that God cannot abide but He loves all His children.


25 posted on 01/03/2015 2:51:17 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: tomkat

Take a look at Filth Central (aka MSNBC website). This is the top story. NOWHERE (not in the Top 20 list of stories) is a story about the funeral of the 2nd cop murdered in Brooklyn today.

The media are vermin.


27 posted on 01/03/2015 3:03:32 PM PST by WeatherGuy
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To: WeatherGuy
The media are vermin


             

28 posted on 01/03/2015 3:06:58 PM PST by tomkat
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To: Obadiah

You don’t understand. Sexual deviants demand tolerance from others, not for others. They want to ram it down your throat.


29 posted on 01/03/2015 3:11:25 PM PST by AmericanVictory (Should we be more like them or they more like we used to be?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The sad truth is after all of the propaganda is said and done, mental illness is still mental illness. Some people just cope better but without treatment, we’ll continue to lose these souls.


30 posted on 01/03/2015 4:33:30 PM PST by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: AmericanVictory

Thanks, yeah I get that.


31 posted on 01/03/2015 5:16:41 PM PST by Obadiah (If the RINOs engineer the 2016 Primary for their guy, I will sit out the General for my guy.)
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To: BykrBayb

This kid was cruel as he condemned his parents who were obeying God. Who knows what God does with souls like this. I would not want to find out. God does love creation. He also has a place called hell for the hellions.


32 posted on 01/03/2015 5:21:32 PM PST by SaraJohnson
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To: PROCON

“You Can’t Always Get What You Want.”

Suicide: The ultimate guilt trip for those who survive.


33 posted on 01/03/2015 5:28:27 PM PST by Jack Deth (Knight Errant and Resident FReeper Kitty Poem /Haiku Guy)
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To: PROCON

The poor family lost their son and now are being hounded by perverts. They are no better than Fred Phelps.


34 posted on 01/03/2015 6:10:38 PM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: PROCON
...died Sunday after writing in an online diary that her parents didn't accept that she he identified as female.
35 posted on 01/03/2015 6:11:15 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Jimmy Carter;No Longer The Worst President In My Lifetime)
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To: Timmy

Ooops...forgot to change “her”.


36 posted on 01/03/2015 6:12:38 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Jimmy Carter;No Longer The Worst President In My Lifetime)
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To: Morgana
You are right. The parents andthe boy were let down and harmed by the mental health profession and the media. But, the homosexual agenda propaganda arm has silenced and threatened therapists who try to help the gender confused. They infiltrated the American Psychological Association, which has blood on its hands for scaring its members and all mental health practitioners into abandoning the gender confused and pained.

The American Psychological Association and the American Psychiatric Association are guilty of having therapists run the other way and thereby through sin of omission fail to help those they used to help and could have helped. Psychologists and psychiatrists, despite knowing better, failed to speak up sufficiently or to act sufficiently when a politically motivated duet of psychologists had the organizational governing council of the APA erroneously reverse 150 through entire professional history with revisionist psychobabble, claiming an entire class of mental illnesses were no longer to be called illnesses.

The federal government and state legislatures are parties to this crime of making it illegal to treat these mental illnesses. There are more suicides among those active in homosexuality and socalled "trans-gender" activities than there were among those who were able to get mental help. They tell another big lie in claiming otherwise.

37 posted on 01/03/2015 8:20:46 PM PST by Seeing More Clearly Now
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To: Seeing More Clearly Now

I believe Johns Hopkins hospital came out and said transgender people are mentally ill and will no longer do that surgery. It is said they know their stuff. The rest must be quacks who just want a buck like abortion docs.


38 posted on 01/03/2015 8:25:09 PM PST by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: dfwgator
Yes, I agree that the truck driver has suffered the most here.

I do a lot of driving for work and one of my worst fears is to cause death or injury to another person with my vehicle. Even in a case where such person threw themselves in front of my vehicle.

It would haunt me the rest of my life if I was in that situation.

Getting back to this whole "transgender" craze, my theory is that many men are looking to become women because men, especially white men, are looked down upon these days.

From a man's point of view, a woman has many choices that a man could never have. For example, if a woman decided to stay out of the workforce and just be a "housewife", she would be applauded for that decision. However, if a man tries taking that route, he is condemned as a lazy bum.

Used to be that there were rewards for a man to be a provider. He'd come home from work and would get to read the newspaper in the den while dinner was prepared and the housework would mostly be done. Being "head of household" used to be something to be proud of.

Now he would be considered a "chauvinist pig" if he had those expectations. Yet he is still expected to work like a slave all day and bring home the bacon. Yet his income is taxed so onerously that his take-home pay is hardly enough to pay the bills so that he must pressure his wife to at least get a part-time job just to make ends meet. This is very emasculating for the average male. So many of them just figure, why not put on a dress and become a woman, so that they can have the pressure of being a man in today's world removed from them.

39 posted on 01/03/2015 8:46:29 PM PST by SamAdams76
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To: SamAdams76

Nah, I think too much crap on TV pushing this nonsense. I don’t watch TV shows but it seems like the ones I scan thru on my way to the sports channels always have some faggoty men or weak men in the show.

Men are being minimized so these young boys have no real masculine role models to look up too.


40 posted on 01/04/2015 12:11:05 AM PST by USAF80
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