A note that other people have made and I feel I should make too, considering my comments about bodies being required for medical use after death:

A funeral is not about the dead person. It is about the family. The dead body and anything attached to it really has no care about the funeral. He's dead. What he did no longer matters unless it was a public issue that impacted his community. Who he slept with in the bedroom has nothing to do with any of that. So if the funeral is about the family... was the family gay? I doubt it... Was the family parading about having gay sex? Again, I doubt it. Even if the dead guy's gay lover had been at the funeral... he is no longer a gay lover since his partner is dead. He's just a human being at a funeral!!!!!

Also, since yes, every since is equal... if the dude came to church every sunday, isn't he like, forgiven of all sins again? So unless he'd had sex between last sunday and dying, then he's still techncically a-ok right? If church doesn't do that to your sins, then um... no one would ever get into heaven since their sins would never be forgiven. But wait, there's more! If you believe in Jesus, all you sins will be forgiven anyway!! Or something like that. So either way folks, this IS the church choosing one sin over the other. I'm pretty sure they're not going to refuse to bury the priest when he dies just because he lied once upon a time, or felt proud of himself.

I love that people seem to think the ultimate hippie pacifist would ever hurt or shun people. I'm not religious, but from what I can recall Jesus was all about acceptance and universal love, and he wanted his followers to be the same way. what happened to that?

"I'm pretty sure they're not going to refuse to bury the priest when he dies just because he lied once upon a time, or felt proud of himself."

Or bury the preist who molested a child...

Maybe that is one of my main reasons that I do not go to church like I used to, they have no right to judge, I think they have judged for years, that is not or was not the reason I went to church, just my opinion. This guy who passed on deserves better, along with his family and friends!

Actually G-d can forgive all sins except scuicide...at least if you are a catholic. Because you can't confess it.

I agree with Sandy. I would leave my church if I found out that this happened.

I would be shocked and horrified if I attended a funneral at my church and in the middle of it all the obituary was a celebration of his homosexual lifestyle accompanied by a video depicting his homosexual relationship, no offense to the family or the guy but a church is not the place for this kind of thing, by all means give the guy a church funneral, comfort his family but there is no way I would have allowed that obituary and video to be publically displayed. and yes I would still give a church funneral to pedophiles, murderers ect but I would never allow a obituary or video celebrating the fact he was a pedophile or a murderer to be shown in the church

being gay and being a pedophile are different! And not comparable by any means. And its not like it was gay porn. I doubt it was photos of them having sex, at most it was a kiss. I think the church was wrong to do so.

"being gay and being a pedophile are different! And not comparable by any means. "

who was it who said all sin is sin and no one has the right to say one sin is worse than another?

I am sure you would also picture of a pedophile priest kissing a child would be fine too?

and words to the effect "he loved children so much" in his obituary to be acceptable?

You dont seem to understand its not that the sin is unforgivable or that the person themselves are evil but that god does not condone these sins and the church can not be seen to be doing so....

The problem lies not with the person being gay or a pedophile but the public celebartion of his sinful life.

A man showing affection to another consenting man is not damaging. Whereas pedophila well pedophilia is definently different and WORSE than homosexuality sin wise. Two consenting people, one virtually rape. I think G-d would definently hold one higher than the other. I also don't think the church would be condoning homosexuality by holding this man's funeral.

and by virtually... I mean it is rape.

Its not a celebration of his sinful life! Its a celebration of his life.

WHY DO PEOPLE COMPARE HOMOSEXUALITY TO PAEDOPHILIA?

Sorry, touchy subject. Seriously, though. How is it ever a valid comparison?

As I said in my other post, it is bottom line "Eew icky gay people". Very well put. And I hate it. I don't hate much, but I do hate discrimination due to sexual preference. What they do in their bedroom is NONE of the church's F*ing business.

Get out of our bedrooms.
Get out of our uteruses.
Get out of our houses.

Get out of our business.
It's none of yours.

I find it so hypocritical HOW much the church cares about sex. Sex doesn't generally harm people.

Yet violence is celebrated in the bible, god himself commands it. The world will end in violence.

What is more accepted in a movie?
Blood or boobs? Blood.
Gore or gonads? Gore.