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PRAISE Jesus! Obama may be working with his communistic pals to force us all to get gay-married, but he can't force Churches to bury the queers. 
Arkansas Church Cancels Gay Man’s Funeral, Presents Grieving Family With Hateful Bible Verses
In a move that seems almost fashionable among those who hide their bigotry behind the Bible, numerous Arkansas churches have banded together against the evils of…memorializing the dead.
James Stone died at the age of 32 on January 19. He married his long-time partner, Jay Hoskins, in New Mexico on their ten-year anniversary. Stone suffered from Sjogren’s syndrome, a rare auto-immune disorder in which the glands that produce tears and saliva are destroyed, causing chronic dry mouth and eyes. According to the Dallas Voice, Stone died of the disease but, according to Hoskins in the comment section on the publication’s web site, his husband took his own life.
“He died a tragic death of suicide where his poor mother and myself found him hanging from a ceiling fan. I tried unsuccessfully to revive him, but it was too late,” Hoskins wrote.
The Voice reports that the surviving husband and Stone’s family have been encountering some difficulties finding a place to memorialize his lost loved one. Hoskins says he wanted to hold a memorial in Mountain Home — a town near Clarkridge, where his husband was born.
Unfortunately, the town’s churches ignored that someone had just died — and refused to memorialize an LGBT individual. Even the local fire house, which was built by Stone’s father, refused to admit the man’s grieving loved ones.
In the comment section of The Voice Hoskins wrote that one church, the Clarkridge Church of Christ, initially allowed the funeral but then canceled — and two of its members did something much, much worse.
“Yes, this incident happened. And yes, it was out of the fundamentalist Clarkridge Church of Christ, amongst others,” he wrote. “I just learned of the media coverage of this issue in the past couple of hours on the Voice. I have been contacted by local media in the last hour.” He continued:
“I can tell you that there were not only issues having a service for him, but also in so much as that one or more members of the Clarkridge Church of Christ called and “CANCELLED” our family get-together after the service, and that TWO members of the Clarkridge Church of Christ, Jerry and Vicki Oels gave James’ grieving mother, myself, and the preacher a nice big envelope each.”
The envelopes were stuffed with Bible verses condemning homosexuality, referencing marriage between people and animals, and…a sympathy card.
“I HAVE NEVER EXPERIENCED SUCH HATE AND BIGOTRY in my life. James was taught not to be bigoted, hateful, and would not have approved of this,” Hoskins wrote.
In another post, the grieving husband urged “smalltown” “smallminded” America to “wake up, and stop spreading the hate.” It’s what his husband would have wanted, he said.
In a move that seems almost fashionable among those who hide their bigotry behind the Bible, numerous Arkansas churches have banded together against the evils of…memorializing the dead.
James Stone died at the age of 32 on January 19. He married his long-time partner, Jay Hoskins, in New Mexico on their ten-year anniversary. Stone suffered from Sjogren’s syndrome, a rare auto-immune disorder in which the glands that produce tears and saliva are destroyed, causing chronic dry mouth and eyes. According to the Dallas Voice, Stone died of the disease but, according to Hoskins in the comment section on the publication’s web site, his husband took his own life.
“He died a tragic death of suicide where his poor mother and myself found him hanging from a ceiling fan. I tried unsuccessfully to revive him, but it was too late,” Hoskins wrote.
The Voice reports that the surviving husband and Stone’s family have been encountering some difficulties finding a place to memorialize his lost loved one. Hoskins says he wanted to hold a memorial in Mountain Home — a town near Clarkridge, where his husband was born.
Unfortunately, the town’s churches ignored that someone had just died — and refused to memorialize an LGBT individual. Even the local fire house, which was built by Stone’s father, refused to admit the man’s grieving loved ones.
In the comment section of The Voice Hoskins wrote that one church, the Clarkridge Church of Christ, initially allowed the funeral but then canceled — and two of its members did something much, much worse.
“Yes, this incident happened. And yes, it was out of the fundamentalist Clarkridge Church of Christ, amongst others,” he wrote. “I just learned of the media coverage of this issue in the past couple of hours on the Voice. I have been contacted by local media in the last hour.” He continued:
“I can tell you that there were not only issues having a service for him, but also in so much as that one or more members of the Clarkridge Church of Christ called and “CANCELLED” our family get-together after the service, and that TWO members of the Clarkridge Church of Christ, Jerry and Vicki Oels gave James’ grieving mother, myself, and the preacher a nice big envelope each.”
The envelopes were stuffed with Bible verses condemning homosexuality, referencing marriage between people and animals, and…a sympathy card.
“I HAVE NEVER EXPERIENCED SUCH HATE AND BIGOTRY in my life. James was taught not to be bigoted, hateful, and would not have approved of this,” Hoskins wrote.
In another post, the grieving husband urged “smalltown” “smallminded” America to “wake up, and stop spreading the hate.” It’s what his husband would have wanted, he said.
The other reason they should be cremated is that a lot of them are probably faking their death anyway so they can be put underground to engage in necrophilia.
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