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Some things just make me so angry. There's a newstory on AOL today, about a Texas church that canceled a memorial service for a dead veteran 24 hours before it was scheduled because (they claim) they just found out he 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.

The church's pastor, the Rev. Gary Simons, said no one knew Sinclair, who was not a church member, was gay until the day before the Thursday service, when staff members putting together his video tribute saw pictures of men "engaging in clear affection, kissing and embracing." (His sister said there were no pictures like that in what she gave the church.)

"Simons said the church believes homosexuality is a sin, and it would have appeared to endorse that lifestyle if the service had been held there."

There is just so much wrong with this that I don't know where to begin. This is a Christian church? Heh. If so, haven't they heard that only Christ forgives, only God judges? And how does burying a dead veteran endorse homosexuality? The hypocrisy of most "Christian" churches makes me sick.

I respect everyone's right to believe in the religion of their choice. I do not respect religions who pervert the Bible to make it say it's okay to hate people based on their lifestyle, sexuality, skin color or choice of religion. I think there should be mandatory truth in advertising for churches ~ and any church who usurps God's sole right to judge, who denies Christ's right to forgive, should be forbidden from calling itself Christian. Perhaps they could call themselves The Church of Bigotry and Hate. That would at least be truthful.