Texas Church Cancels Funeral

This bothers me. Regardless of how you feel about the morality of gays, refusing to host the funeral after offering to do so and making that refusal AFTER the obit appears in the paper is simply wrong. The man was a worker there. He was a church employee. If he was good enough to clean their crap off the pews he was certainly good enough to have his funeral there. Where's their Christian love? Where's their concern for the family. This wasn't about what was RIGHT, it was about APPEARANCES. As a Christian this repulses me. The concern should be for the deceased and his family, not their image. They managed to make a difficult and emotional time for the deceased's family even worse with their callous disregard for the man's passing.


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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.

Wright said High Point offered to hold the service for Sinclair because their brother is a janitor there. Sinclair, who served in the first Gulf War, died Monday at age 46 from an infection after surgery to prepare him for a heart transplant.