[It's me]

He did not belong to a church.

Then it shouldn't be an issue. It wasn't important in life is shouldn't be important in death.

[texas booster]

Here we have a church that volunteers to pray for the brother of an employee, has provided the family with assistance in the past with no expectation of repayment, attempts to give the man a decent burial and the survivors a decent funeral. The church used their media department to create a tribute to a man as best they could.

It was all done in Christian charity. They drew the line at a situation that they felt was offensive to the church.

My gut feeling is that the entire family was poor and would not have been able to afford a funeral. It happens more often than we would like. Dying is the most expensive part of living, it seems.