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To: It's me; DoughtyOne
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.

64 posted on 08/10/2007 6:32:08 AM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: texas booster

Seems to me some articles (this one included) try to show how thoughtless and uncaring churches are. Truth be told, churches provide a lot of outreach and in some cases I wouldn’t be surprised if that included homosexuals who are ill.

Dying is expensive. You might be on to something there.


114 posted on 08/10/2007 1:35:40 PM PDT by DoughtyOne
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