Here is one more reason that organized religion should be banned.
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.
Just how cruel and callous are these bastards? So what if the man was gay. The "bible" says that "god" created man in his own image. Obviously the "christians" believe then that "god" must have created this man. Is it, then, a logical extension to assume that if "god" created man in his own image, and "god" creates gay people, then "god" is gay?
Bush and the rest of the neocon creep squad have made tremendous strides in shoving organized religion down the throats of the public. We now have organized prayer in Federal office buildings. One clown in my agency wears a baseball cap to work that reads "Got Jesus" across the front. "God" is invoked in almost every aspect of our lives. Yet, surprisingly, when someone dies they are not able to be memorialized in "god's" church because of their sexual orientation. The current "god" certainly isn't the one I studied about in Lutheran confirmation classes more than 40 years ago. Maybe the current "god" is a neocon like the comapassionate conservatives who claim to worship him/her in this prejudiced Texas church.
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My mother, one of the wisest people I know, once told me that you can prove any point by the Bible.
Want to prove that "God" FAVORS capital punishment? Point to Deuteronomy 19:21: "Thus you shall not show pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot." Want to prove that "God" is AGAINST capital punishment? Check out Romans 12:19: "Dear friends, never take revenge. Leave that to the righteous anger of God. For the Scriptures say, 'I will take revenge; I will pay them back,' says the Lord."
If you want proof that it's OKAY to pass judgment on homosexuals, look at Leviticus 18:22: "You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; such a thing is an abomination." But then in John 8:2-11, Jesus Himself tells us that it's NOT okay to judge: "'He who is without sin among you, let him throw a stone at her first'... When Jesus had raised Himself up and saw no one but the woman, He said to her, ‘Woman, where are those accusers of yours? Has no one condemned you?’ She said, ‘No one, Lord.’ And Jesus said to her, ‘Neither do I condemn you.'"
Maybe I'm being naive, but I have to wonder... if Christianity is the religion of love, then why do Christians persist in cherry-picking the most hate-filled passages from the Bible as "truth", while disregarding those passages that encourage love and tolerance?
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