It's the fucking Principle, not malice

A megachurch canceled a memorial service for a Navy veteran 24 hours before it was to start because the deceased was gay. As the pastor states, it's about the principle of the thing, ya know - the word of Gawd, not about any ole' mlaice.

Cecil Sinclair, 46, who served in the first Gulf War "died Monday from an infection after surgery to prepare him for a heart transplant. " He worked as a janitor at High Point Church.

The 5,000-member High Point Church was founded in 2000 by Simons and his wife, April, whose brother is Joel Osteen, well-known pastor of the 38,000-member Lakewood Church in Houston. Now High Point meets in a 432,000-square-foot facility in Arlington, near Dallas.

Of course, John at Americablog and a few other places have had their say....... suffice it to say, sanctimonious bullshit ALWAYS sets me off, and yep - this quote did it.

"Can you hold the event and condone the sin and compromise our principles?" Simons said in the article. "We can't." *

"Even though we could not condone that lifestyle, we went above and beyond for the family through many acts of love and kindness," Simons said.**

* The pastor, 'Reverend' Gary Simons, is brother-in-law of nationally known preacher, Joel Osteen.
**Simons said ...

the church offered to pay for another site for the service, made the video and provided food for more than 100 relatives and friends of Sinclair's."

I fuckin' feel better......