What is Digg?465 Comments
- XISUPERMANIX, on 10/10/2007, -14/+158What a bunch of dumb asses, show some respect. Who cares what his beliefs are, he was a vet and fought for your freedom.
- revthwack, on 10/10/2007, -7/+129"Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, unless thy neighbour loves thy neighbour more than thy neighbour's wife"—Matthew 19:19, High Point Church edition.
- jstohler, on 10/10/2007, -15/+88It's not about legality. It's about being ***** ***** fundamentalists.
- tehpwnrate, on 10/10/2007, -9/+77Megachurch... the opposite of what a good church is IMO. A good church is a small community place, not a big business bureaucracy. I'll bet in a small community church, they would have overlooked this.
- DanCMH, on 10/10/2007, -6/+72Great way to treat a veteran who fought for their religious freedoms...
- jdetc, on 10/10/2007, -2/+56So just because a soldier was homosexual, he's denied a memorial service. Makes complete sense.
Why not do the same for criminals, liars, thieves, adulterers? I don't think that just because this is a "sexual sin" it should be worth any more or less to the church.
Heck, it shouldn't matter at all. Christians, myself included, are supposed to LOVE and CARE for others like they were their own brother. They're all so caught up on the rules that they forget what it's all about...
This is more of an issue of RESPECT than an issue of freedom to do whatever they want. - mattman59, on 10/10/2007, -18/+62Campus Address:
2500 E. Arbrook Blvd
Arlington, TX 76014
Mailing Address:
P.O. Box 150478
Arlington, TX 76015
Phone Number:
817.394.3000
Fax Number:
817.394.3001
Staff List:
* Preschool – Birth through Kindergarten
* Misty Westlund – misty.westlund@highpointchurch.com
*
* Children – 1st through 5th Grade
* Todd Mears – todd.mears@highpointchurch.com
*
* Youth – 6th through 12th Grade
Roscoe Robinson – roscoe.robinson@highpointchurch.com
*
* Axis – 18 to Twentysomething Ministry
* Abel Pena – abel.pena@highpointchurch.com
*
* Excel – 50+ Ministry
* Glenda Simons – glenda.simons@highpointchurch.com
*
* Small Groups/TouchPoints
* Joseph Davis – joseph.davis@highpointchurch.com
*
* Guest Services and Men's Ministry
* Bobby Yanick – bobby.yanick@highpointchurch.com
*
* Pastoral Care and Association of Churches
* Robert Baxter – robert.baxter@highpointchurch.com - nixonrichard, on 10/10/2007, -9/+49More importantly, it's about the vanity of ***** ***** fundamentalists. If you don't want to hold services for gays, that's one thing, but if you cancel a service for a gay guy you knew was gay only after you realize people will see what you're doing, that's REALLY *****.
- JasonCox, on 10/10/2007, -11/+45I hope those so called church leaders burn in hell.
- Laterali, on 10/10/2007, -4/+31The poor guy sacrificed his life for these stupid people...
- ReturnToFreedom, on 10/10/2007, -1/+26This reminds me of a quote from Ghandi, "I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians because they are so unlike your Christ".
- Scheissen, on 10/10/2007, -7/+32Then tax the damn churches.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -3/+28Funny that one of the major tenets Christianity is compassion for ones fellow man and hating the sin not the sinner. Yet all these chruches can manage is contempt.
- longhair, on 10/10/2007, -9/+33Absolute ***** *****!!!
- Lax32, on 10/10/2007, -5/+28The bible makes a brief mention that being gay is wrong. Although there is controversy on how much weight you can put on a single passage, I will give them the benefit of the doubt.
However, the bible states that every sin is equal in severity in the eyes of God. It also states that judgment of another is a sin. So the people running the church are, biblically speaking, just as bad as he is. The only thing they should be concerned about is if he was christian or not.
Reminds me of the bible passage everyone and their dog knows about and quotes, the one where Jesus shows up to this womans stoning and tells everyone that if was fine if they stoned her, so long as the first person to throw a stone had never sinned before. - ravage86, on 10/10/2007, -8/+31This church puts the religion to shame. I'm pretty sure the bible teaches us not to pass judgement, and to love your neighbor as you love yourself. It's not their place to decide he was unworthy. If it was a concern to them, they should have continued the service and prayed for his forgiveness.
- ravage86, on 10/10/2007, -2/+24We all sin, everybody. Nobody's perfect, and the bible acknowledges this. Does this mean that nobody should have a memorial service? Or is being gay the worst of sins? How much am I allowed to sin before my memorial service is cancelled? Is there a chart I can reference so I don't go over my quota?
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -2/+23This is an outrage. I'm sure if the man was straight but divorced or ate shellfish then that wouldn't be a problem, would it? Hyprocites!
- firedrillduckie, on 10/10/2007, -3/+23...
Please say YOU'RE joking. - ConAmoreEFuoco, on 10/10/2007, -3/+23For shame.
- revthwack, on 10/10/2007, -8/+27Slaves, submit yourselves to your masters with all respect, not only to those who are good and considerate, but also to those who are harsh (1 Peter 2:18)
So we should do away with the emancipation proclamation, as the bible obviously supports slavery? - Bdog2g2, on 10/10/2007, -0/+18Please don't give this piece of ***** any attention, he's a ***** troll, he has one of at least a dozen user names, which almost always get block...just report the asstard and move on.
- Bdog2g2, on 10/10/2007, -1/+19Knock Knock
Whos there?
Life.
Life who?
Life Sucks; - fbombs, on 10/10/2007, -0/+17WWJD?
- TrueXtremeIcon, on 10/10/2007, -0/+16It's called sarcasm you ***** tool.
- cybermonkey114, on 10/10/2007, -1/+17homosexuality isnt a belief, its a sexual orientation...
otherwise i totally agree though - simonwright, on 10/10/2007, -3/+18This isn't terrible. It's the Church showing its true colors. The correct response is not to get angry with them, it's to make them irrelevant.
- ellabee, on 10/10/2007, -3/+18shame on them. goddam righteous *****.
RIP to an American Veteran, who served the US for our freedoms. God Bless. - kufu91, on 10/10/2007, -1/+15they didn't reject homosexuality. they canceled the memorial of a dead veteran because they thought something he did was icky. they don't cancel the memorials of people who lie to people, who commit adultery, who covet their neighbors' ______, those who don't honor their parents. if canceling the memorials of people who sinned was normal, we wouldn't have memorials. why should his sin be any worse than yours, or the pastor's or anybody else's?
- kufu91, on 10/10/2007, -2/+15i think it's more because it wasn't very funny and you are making fun of a dead veteran. hasn't he been disrespected enough?
- cinder, on 10/10/2007, -4/+17Wow... Pastor Gary looks kind of creepy. Is he the next Ted Haggard?
- ezstan, on 10/10/2007, -3/+15I find it disturbing that a church that continuosly uses the word "love" promotes hate.
The term megachurch describes the amount of money that a church scams from it's herd.
Religions are a parody on astrology. The only difference is they control out of fear. Wake Up!!! - zengonzo, on 10/10/2007, -2/+14You can make whatever jokes you want, moron - doesn't mean you're not going to get dugg down for them.
- kufu91, on 10/10/2007, -1/+13he's dead, canceling his memorial won't make him not gay in the past
- jstohler, on 10/10/2007, -3/+15***** em -- they aren't just members, they're recognized church leaders. And they posted their information online anyway, so it was already public.
- anti_hax0r, on 10/10/2007, -3/+15yes it was
- trogdoor, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12I don't think that the government should be allowed to keep KKK members from having their meetings, that doesn't mean that I can't call them ***** crazy bigots.
- art42, on 10/10/2007, -7/+18High Point Church: http://www.churchunusual.com
- wolf530, on 10/10/2007, -1/+11Fear is not an excuse for ignorance or cowardice. The pastor said nothing about Phelps, so we have to assume the churchpeople are just backwards idiots.
- wolf530, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10If Jesus can consort with lepers and prostitutes, I don't see how he'd have a problem presiding over a dead veteran's funeral, no matter what his sexual orientation was.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+11I'm sorry, but ALL christians who don't immediately come forward and denounce this type of behavior ARE to blame!
They are creating an environment where it is okay to discriminate based purely and simply upon prejudice and hatred, and by not calling out other churches for this type of thing they are telling the world that they too support the discrimination of people based on such irrelevant things as sexuality that has hurt no one (compared to the rape and abuse by their pastors and priests against minors and children). - tasadar24, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10Not this one... *sigh*
- kelbear, on 10/10/2007, -1/+11Clearly, God and Jesus loves everybody.... Unless they're gay. *roll eyes*
And if they're supposedly evil, isn't that exactly the demographic that should be the most welcome? Would Jesus prefer to spend his time with the "healthy" or the "sick"? Matthew 9:10-13 - Subterfug, on 10/10/2007, -4/+14Sanctuary: $20
Salvation: $80
Burning in hell for rejecting gays: Priceless - tehpwnrate, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10I wouldn't have dugg you down if you had made this joke about a man who wasn't dead and being dishonored, you tool.
- nigh7dagger, on 10/10/2007, -2/+11Key words being "High Point Church Edition".
I thought it was pretty ***** obvious. - fli7e, on 10/10/2007, -4/+13Heh, if anyone looks like a homosexual here it's that church's pastor.
- MexiRigger, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9absolutely disappointing. if only Christians acted with tolerance and not self-righteousness. (not speaking about all of them of course)
- Backdrifts, on 10/10/2007, -2/+10Did somebody say 'brainwashed scumbag piece of *****'?
- CronoTrigger, on 10/10/2007, -3/+11I sent them an Email.
-
Show 51 - 100 of 425 discussions
Browsing Digg on your phone just got easier with our enhancements to the 
© Digg Inc. 2009
— Content created and posted by Digg users is