Homophobia as Strong as Shrapnel
Check out this story from the Associated Press about a MegaChurch that canceled a memorial services for a Navy veteran after they learned he was gay.
Imagine a loved one fighting and dying in the first Gulf War and then your local MegaChurch offers to host the memorial service. Then, get this, the church learns the veteran (who probably enlisthed to fight for things like religious expression) is gay and decides to express their way right out of their own vows to host the service.
After canceling, a spokesman actually said:
"We did decline to host the service -- not based on hatred, not based on discrimination, but based on principle."
WHAT?!? Hatred and discrimination ARE principles. Screwed up principles, but they are principles. This church did the unthinkable. How can anyone claiming to be a Christian not even honor a former soldier? The church claims they could not condone the "lifestyle" but I bet you everything I own that this church has not looked into the "lifestyle" of any other deceased church member. Have they never had a memorial service for someone who cheated on their taxes, or who had been divorced or ever shoplifted? You can almost guarantee that this church has ignored sinful behavior of others, only to call out the "unnacceptable" sin of homosexuality.
This is so offensive on so many levels. Is there no decency among leaders on the right? Are gays not even deserving of death with dignity? This man stood for everything conservatives love: family, country, Christianity. So what do they do the minute they find out you're queer. Give you the boot.
Please visit High Point church and give 'em a piece of your mind.
Labels: Cecile Sinclair, Gay, High Point Church, Navy
posted by Sean Kosofsky @ 3:24 PM
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2 Comments:
"This man stood for everything conservatives love..."
Not quite, Sean.
If he served in the first Gulf War, his Navy enlistment contract pre-Don't Ask, Don't Tell would have included an outright ban on homosexuals in the military, so he had to have lied in response to the question on the contract.
Dishonesty is not something conservatives love, any more than they love a guy committing the sin of having anal sex with other men.
What you obviously don't get is this: the man was free to engage in sodomy if he chose, he was free to lie to the Navy about it if he chose, his sister was free to hold his funeral service in any number of places she could have paid for out of his or her own pocket, yet she attacks a Christian church -- which offered to pay for the service elsewhere, the news report says -- because it chooses not to use its own sanctuary to honor someone who openly identifies himself on the basis of homosexual behavior.
Suggestion: why don't you engage in whatever sex acts you want with however many dozens or hundreds of other guys you want over the course of your lifetime...
...and leave that church and other folks who don't approve alone?
Sorry. You are wrong. Being gay in the military does not mean you are engaging in homosexual sex while in the military. Your assumption that because Cecil was in the military, he was acting on it is only a presumption.
Also, many gay people don't come out to themselves until later in life, so there is not guarantee that Cecil even identified as gay while in the military.
But even if he was out to himself and involved with men, he was still a soldier serving his country and no heterosexual would have been treated the same way.
The point is that Cecil could have had sex with 500 women and he would not have been rejected from this church, but mere identity as gay caused this church to embrace bigotry.
Sorry you can't see that you are making excuses for prejudice and discrimination.
Why did you enter your comments as "anonymous?" Who are you?
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