The church did not object to donating a large facility, food and a tribute video so he could have a better funeral. They objected to the glorification of the deeds of the man.
I don’t know about here in the USA. Maybe they would get sued in CA, MA and VT?
"After the church decided it would not host the funeral service, it offered to pay for another facility, Mr. Simons said. The family declined and found a local funeral home to hold the event Thursday night.Even so, the church sent over food and the video – minus the images church officials found to be offensive.
"Some of our people will be there at the memorial service," Mr. Simons said. "We tried to do the very best of our ability to express the love of Christ."
Some of his fellow singers would have been members at the Cathedral of Hope. Why didn’t they have the funeral there?
Why do they feel it is necessary to announce his homosexuality at his funeral?
I can’t imagine anyone at my funeral making some sort of announcement about my heretoness.
“And he loved women. He was a fine hereto.”
See? Just doesn’t cut it.
They simply picked the wrong church. There are plenty that most likely would not have had a problem with it. United Church of Christ, for example.
Just askin’ but maybe the Rev. Phelps would be agreeable to hosting and presiding over this one.....
maybe not.
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.
A surprisingly fair story in the Dallas Morning News.
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.
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.
This is something I’ve never understood. A “church” is a gathering of like minded people who believe in mostly the same thing. They agree on what is a sin and what is not. If you don’t agree then you don’t believe then you aren’t part of that church no matter what pew you sit in.
I tolerate the homosexual lifestyle. I don’t agree with it, I don’t approve of it. I can be friends with someone who is involved in that kind of lifestyle in the same manner I can be friends with a heterosexual adulterer. I don’t forgive them, they haven’t sinned against me. I don’t condemn them to hell, I don’t have that authority. I do warn them, and sometimes, by my example, convict them. If their behavior is such that it brings problems into my life I remove them from my life. I understand that I just as sinful in my own way, and that is between God, the person I have harmed, and me. You don’t have to agree with me or approve of me. You don’t have to forgive me or condemn me. You can warn me and sometimes you might inspire me to take a good look at myself and make the changes I need to.
The corpse don’t care at all. If he can complain, then lets re-visit the quesiton but I don’t think we’ll hear from him.
Amen!!
Good for this part of the body of Christ.
How dare these people.
Give an inch and they try to take a mile.
How can a "nondenominational" claim any stand on anything? Some denomination or another is going to allow, endorce or otherwise everything under the son.
mega-church... proof that snake handling need not be limited to tents and carnivals anymore.
The church is not obligated to celebrate anyone’s sins.
Does the Mafia ask the church to celebrate a hit man’s sins?
He didn’t belong to ANY Church.