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rug

(82,333 posts)
Wed Jan 14, 2015, 07:39 PM Jan 2015

Family: Church in Lakewood stops woman's funeral because she was gay



Vanessa Collier (Photo via 7News)

By Jesse Paul
The Denver Post

Posted: 01/13/2015 01:57:16 PM MST
Updated: 01/14/2015 01:59:50 PM MST

LAKEWOOD — Hundreds of Vanessa Collier's friends and family gathered Saturday at New Hope Ministries, sitting before an open casket that held the woman they loved, when suddenly the minister overseeing her funeral stopped the service.

The memorial could not continue, Pastor Ray Chavez said, as long as pictures of Collier with the love of her life, the spouse she shared two children with, were to be displayed.

Chavez said there could be no images of Collier with her wife, Christina. There could be no indication that Collier was gay.

Outraged, those who loved Collier, 33, picked up programs, flowers and eventually the dead woman's casket itself, moving the service to a mortuary that — thankfully, they say — happened to be across the street.



(l-r) Cheyenne Poorbear, Samantha Getman and Victoria Quintana display photographs of Vanessa Collier and her partner, Christina Higley, during a rally outside New Hope Ministries in Lakewood, CO January 13. (Craig F. Walker, The Denver Post)

http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_27312180/family-lakewood-church-refuses-funeral-service-because-woman

I hope she received more love in her life than she did in her death.
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Family: Church in Lakewood stops woman's funeral because she was gay (Original Post) rug Jan 2015 OP
Vile, vile, vile. merrily Jan 2015 #1
Church has been renamed to Old Hate Ministries Dont call me Shirley Jan 2015 #2
Good Lord shenmue Jan 2015 #3
Totally unchristian imo. hrmjustin Jan 2015 #4
WOW. lunasun Jan 2015 #5
Central to Christianity... TreasonousBastard Jan 2015 #6
What a horrible man. I am glad she had family and friends who got her out of there. cbayer Jan 2015 #7

TreasonousBastard

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6. Central to Christianity...
Wed Jan 14, 2015, 08:01 PM
Jan 2015

(my version, anyway) is the concept of forgiveness. Even if you believe, wrongly, homosexuality is a sin, it is the kind of sin that can be forgiven, especially in death.

Even if you believe in a specific God, what monumental ego do you have to assume to speak for that God, and know what he thinks about who you are sleeping with?

The God of Love, except...

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