Last Monday, 46-year-old Cecil Sinclair died of heart condition that he had been suffering from for six years. Though he did not belong to a church, High Point Church, where his brother Lee is employed, volunteered to hold a memorial service for him. However, when the family began to plan the service, the church found out that Sinclair was a homosexual, and the family wanted to display photos that demonstrated this lifestyle as well as have the Turtle Creek Chorale, a gay choir group, sing, and have ahave an open microphone format to allow anyone who attended to speak. When the church was informed of these conditions, they refused to allow it, saying that it was against their policy to condone a homosexual lifestyle for their service.
This dilemma is a problem that Christian organizations have been faced with, showing compassion to the gay community while condemning the lifestyle itself. The church had been praying for Sinclair, a native of Forth Worth, Texas and a Navy veteran who served in Desert Storm, ever since they received word that he had gotten sick. In a statement issued to the public, the church said that they did everything they could to comfort the family at the time that Mr. Sinclair first passed away.
The memorial service was offered free of charge, and when they declined the family’s memorial requests, they offered to pay for an alternative venue in which to have the service to their liking, but the family declined. They also prepared and delivered food for the family and 100 relatives and friends. At the same time, it appeared that all the family wanted was acceptance of Cecil Sinclair’s lifestyle, which the church bluntly maintained that it cannot glorify.
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackThe fact is: Many churches treat gay people like excrement.
I am turning my motorcycle club into a church so that we can get a tax exemption. My motorcycle group is certainly more compassionate than many Christian churches.
What exactly is a homosexual funeral?
Does that mean there are heterosexual funerals and bisexual funerals ? I thought there were only funerals.
The woman who wrote this is a self-righteous evildoer. A Homosexual funeral…you vile and evil person. Who do you think you are casting judgment on a person like that? Homosexuality has been observed in over 1500 animal species from insects to giraffes. It is completely normal and prevelent in the natural world. It is a design element of evolution to limit a species from breeding itself to death, like Humans are, and taking 30 innocent plant and animal species with them every day.
You are like a Pharisee, Jesus’ sworn enemies. They could point out the letter of the law all day, but they knew not what it meant. Jesus would be outraged that you put the letter of the law over a man’s final passage. What they did was the most egregious of sins imaginable. Instead of discriminating against Homosexuals, you “Christians” should be looking at them as saviours to keep you from breeding yourselves to death.
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