Posted on 08/09/2007 9:41:18 PM PDT by texas booster
An Arlington church volunteered to host a funeral Thursday, then reneged on the invitation when it became clear the dead man's homosexuality would be identified in the service.
The event placed High Point Church in the cross hairs of an issue many conservative Christian organizations are discussing: how to take a hard-line theological position on homosexuality while showing compassion toward gay people and their families.
Mr. Sinclair, 46, died Monday. He was a native of Fort Worth, a Navy veteran who served in Desert Storm helping rescuers find downed pilots, and a singer in the Turtle Creek Chorale, said his mother, Eva Bowers. He did not belong to a church.
His brother, Lee, is an employee and member of High Point, a nondenominational mega-congregation led by the Rev. Gary Simons. Mr. Simons is the brother-in-law of Joel Osteen, nationally known pastor of Houston's Lakewood Church.
When Cecil Sinclair became ill with a heart condition six years ago, church members started praying for him out of love for his brother, Mr. Simons said Thursday. And when Mr. Sinclair died of an infection, a side effect of surgery intended to keep him alive long enough for a heart transplant, a member of the church staff was immediately sent to minister to the family, he said.
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Thanks. I guess I need to be reading the Observer more frequently.
Once they are dead, do they continue to be homosexual?
A Christian service is supposed to be Christian, not pagan. It is unfortunate that, in so many American churches today, funerals are expected to be secular humanist worshiping of men rather than of God.
It is very sobering to read multiple versions of a LW&T and watch the final document be created. You really see the thought processes of the deceased.
I never withheld any part of a LW&T, even through discussions of undying love to a life partner. Or multiple partners.
However, there were certain docs and pictures that were just too corrupt to recover, IYKWIM.
************ That is what is going on here. The church reached out to an employees family, and was burned by the direction the service went.
A church will donate their facilities for a wedding, but still has the right to restrict the weddings that take place, and the activities at the wedding. If they do not allow dancing, even Daddy-daughter dances, then you will have to find a new hall for the reception.
Now in Great Britian or in Canada ...
A surprisingly fair story in the Dallas Morning News.
Especially the ads in the back - women seeking men, men seeking gerbils, etc.
That’s what I thought. It is August, and maybe the normal editor is on vacation.
Funerals for Christians are easy. We know where they are going.
Funerals for perverts are bad. We also know where they are going...
and don’t like that direction one bit.
That's where the SBA ran ads when they were recruiting attorneys for the Katrina disaster. You may be missing out on some government jobs.
I mean, a section for Government Seeking Lawyers. Talk about obscene!
Hmmm ... wonder how much money the SBA funneled to leftist lawyers. They exist, even in Dallas.
Theology and ad hominem attacks aside, the whole issue can be solved with one statement: Their church, their rules. Don’t like a gay-unfriendly church? Simple. Join another church that allows for such behavior. Until then, learn to feel like a second class citizen in a church until you follow their rules fully. Don’t go crying to momma government about how you think you were treated unfairly.
I feel bad for his Mom.
that is the problem....the church buries cakers all day long but they don't glorify it anymore than they do philanderers.
I suspect I’ve hijacked this thread far enough.
I feel bad for the parents of any homosexual.
I’ve only known one where the parents did not have issues with it or the homosexuality arose our of some issue that was at least partially attributable to home...but that was a lesbian.
I have 5 kids. I’ve watched coddling mommies with little boys painfully sissies as early as say...18 months of age.
My question is.....did the moms coddle them into this or do the moms coddle kids already sissified?
it’s odd to watch...this is probably where I part with social conservatives who munlike me think homosexuality is always learned.
Hey, I’ve enjoyed it.
Night!
Then it shouldn't be an issue. It wasn't important in life is shouldn't be important in death.
That's all anyone should need to know. This church has no obligation to this man.
I don’t know this denomination.
So all I can say is this person’s soul is in God’s hand.
Give him normal burial service?
Plasticanation is our choice.
Now I lay myself down to sleep, my soul the Lord to keep.
Simple.
LOL Me too she loved every man that she never dared to touch one.
Not exactly the mission I spent my heart and soul on to be spoke at the Eulogy.
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