Recently a story about a Tampa, Florida Baptist Church hit the airwaves. One of its members had died. The family was preparing for the funeral that day, when all of the sudden the minister called to inform them that the funeral was no longer welcomed in their church. The invitation to have it held there was rescinded.
You see, some of the church folks started to complain about the deceased because they found out he was gay. The pastor made the decision that since they just found out the guy was gay in the obituary that it would be an abomination to hold the funeral there.
While I realize a church is free to do what they want to do inside their four walls, I'm also free to point out how wrong their actions can be, especially in this case. In this particular church and example, I can think of many things in the bible that they disregarded in coming to this decision. If you think for a moment or two, I'm sure you can come up with the same list.
Of course, I'm sure that for everyone who dies and has a funeral in this church, they ask a series of questions. Hopefully they ask everyone else before a funeral, if they have ever done something that the church disagrees with because God forbid they would just differentiate between some things and not others. I'm sure the questions would be like the following examples
You see, some of the church folks started to complain about the deceased because they found out he was gay. The pastor made the decision that since they just found out the guy was gay in the obituary that it would be an abomination to hold the funeral there.
While I realize a church is free to do what they want to do inside their four walls, I'm also free to point out how wrong their actions can be, especially in this case. In this particular church and example, I can think of many things in the bible that they disregarded in coming to this decision. If you think for a moment or two, I'm sure you can come up with the same list.
Of course, I'm sure that for everyone who dies and has a funeral in this church, they ask a series of questions. Hopefully they ask everyone else before a funeral, if they have ever done something that the church disagrees with because God forbid they would just differentiate between some things and not others. I'm sure the questions would be like the following examples

