(Family Research Council) High Point Church in Texas….has come under fire for refusing to host a homosexual man's memorial service. The church had initially agreed to the service because the deceased was the brother of a church employee. However after the church discovered the man was a homosexual and that the memorial service would celebrate the homosexual lifestyle with suggestive photos and music from an openly gay men's chorus, the church's pastor, Gary Simons, withdrew the offer to host the event in the sanctuary.
The church secured another location, and catered lunch, at the church's expense, that would meet the needs of the family and not subject their sanctuary to being used to celebrate homosexuality.
The church should have been commended for bending over backwards to meet the deceased man’s family needs while preserving the sanctity of the sanctuary.
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Oh, please.
The church was rude, graceless, thoughtless, and definitely unChristlike in its dealings with this family.
What would Jesus do?
Not break his word and toss the family out of church in their hour of need.
Your comments surprise me. The family wanted to display a multimedia memorial presentation that condoned his actively homosexual lifestyle. Jesus always accepted the sinner, but never promoted the sin. There would not have been a problem if the family wanted a conventional memorial service. More details at: http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/aug/07081404.html
The family wanted a service that memorialized his life. They had a slideshow. A choir sang Amazing Grace. Offer me one shred of proof that they were planning some sort of gay pride parade like all the hysterical bloggers are suggesting.
Thanks Andrew for the update.
Actually, I don't think that it was hysterical bloggers, but concerns expressed by the pastor of the church.
From the Dallas Morning News: Both the family and church officials agree that the church volunteered to host a memorial service, feed 100 guests and create a multimedia presentation of photos from Mr. Sinclair's life.
But the photos that the family selected alerted church officials that there might be a problem with the service, [Rev. Gary] Simons said.
"Some of those photos had very strong homosexual images of kissing and hugging," he said. "My ministry associates were taken aback."
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