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#1318674
Doctor Whom
8/5/2011 4:09:13 AM
#1318682
Percy Q. Shunn
8/5/2011 4:14:50 AM
#1318683
loki
I would have walked to the coffin with 5 others before they were done with their insults and carried her out away from that peace of shit
8/5/2011 4:15:15 AM
#1318690
Gypsin
you'd think the people they send to do the speech at a funeral would be people who actually fucking cared about the deceased. christ, i hope my family doesn't take my body to a church when i die and let some smugass pastor pass judgement on my life. that's one of the things that bugs me about this. 300 people there and only 100 walked out. so what? only 100 people there actually respected/accepted her sexuality? what the fuck did the other 200 people show up for? to make sure she was dead?
8/5/2011 4:24:13 AM
#1318691
shykid
...dude, wow, just wow.
You stay classy, Reverend.
8/5/2011 4:26:41 AM
#1318700
Mrs. Antichrist
Vulturing someone at their own funeral. Classy.
8/5/2011 4:39:58 AM
#1318702
aaa
I find this situation completely predictable.
8/5/2011 4:41:23 AM
#1318704
Doctor Whom and Percy have illustrated the old adage that a picture paints a thousand words. Can't really add much more. Because I am rendered near speechless by the callousness of this bastard.
8/5/2011 4:43:35 AM
#1318711
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
A funeral is a time to honor the memory of the deceased NOT to demonize them. It takes a truly disturbed person to taint such an occasion by spewing hate filled judgements. Just shows us who the real monsters are.
8/5/2011 4:54:50 AM
#1318714
Dark_Lord_Prime
Am I the only one who finds it ironically humorous that the pastor who was passing judgement on her life is from a church called "Agape Missionary?"
8/5/2011 4:58:26 AM
#1318719
Man Called True
@Gypsin: Everyone shows respect in their own ways. Maybe the other two hundred thought it'd be more respectful to the deceased to stay there and make sure at least a few people who cared about her wishes shared the room with her.
As for the pastor... Wow. Yet another "She was punished for her SINS! Praise Jesus!" parrot.
If God and the afterlife is real, just before He drops you into the lake of fire, you're going to yell at him, "But I served you for my entire life!"
And God will answer back, "To serve me is to love and honor all my creatures. You served yourself."
8/5/2011 5:02:07 AM
#1318743
D Laurier
And this sort of hatefull shit is exactly why religion should be taxed and regulated
8/5/2011 5:34:23 AM
#1318748
dionysus
Even the vultures are sickened by your behavior. At least what they do cleans up the environment a bit.
8/5/2011 5:41:50 AM
#1318754
Raised by Horses
Why not just piss on her grave while you're at it?
Ludicrous. Not to mention unbelievably disrespectful.
@Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
But religion is the only source for morality! Without it we wouldn't know right from wrong!
8/5/2011 5:50:50 AM
#1318755
Doubting Thomas
The funeral was held in a Baptist church. What did they expect, love, tolerance, and understanding?
8/5/2011 5:53:22 AM
#1318767
Mister Spak
“Basically, he said that God let her get killed so that people could get saved,”
Basically, god did the same thing with Martin Luther King.
8/5/2011 6:03:07 AM
#1318768
John
“Basically, he said that God let her get killed so that people could get saved,” said D.C. gay activist and comedian Sampson McCormack, who attended the service. “And that came after somebody, I think it was a deacon, said when you live a certain lifestyle this is the consequence you have to pay.”
So they're basically condoning murdering trans-gender people? Unlike Lynn Westmoreland, I think I pretty much remember the 10 Commandments. I remember "thou shalt not kill", but I don't remember one that says "thou shalt not have a sex change". Do they think the murderer was "saved"?
8/5/2011 6:03:40 AM
#1318771
gaijinlaw
Funerals and memorial services are for the living. The decedant is beyond caring. If there was such a schizm in this woman's life between her biological relations and the people who cared about her for herself I think separate ceremonies would have been wiser. That that did not happen is tragic, but I would not expect people who had never accepted her identity to do a sudden about face at the funeral. The 100 walkouts did the only thing they could do in that situation.
8/5/2011 6:06:22 AM
#1318787
whatever
@Gypsin
"300 people there and only 100 walked out. so what? only 100 people there actually respected/accepted her sexuality? what the fuck did the other 200 people show up for? to make sure she was dead?"
Don't be too quick to judge those 200 people. It's a very embarrassing situation and a lot of people wouldn't have the guts to walk out, especially if it was their regular church and/or some of their families or friends were near them in the congregation. It could be seen as deserting the funeral. They remained to carry out the funeral with what little dignity was still possible.
8/5/2011 6:21:12 AM
#1318817
Pilotess
I'm with Doubting Thomas on this one - that's what you get, when you pick a Baptist Church. Not that people should disresepect anyone but expecting dignity and respect in a setting like this ... nah! :(
8/5/2011 7:46:57 AM
#1318820
Hazumu
I'm a transwoman. This shit from fundies to trans-anything happens all the time. I wish the Fundie Index were over a million - or at least north of 100. (Yes, I already clicked the [WTF?!] link.)
8/5/2011 7:57:57 AM
#1318821
Sasha
"Basically, he said that God let her get killed so that people could get saved,”
Kinda like Jesus.
8/5/2011 8:00:14 AM
#1318823
Think what you will about transgender people, there's absolutely no excuse to be a douche at their fucking funeral.
8/5/2011 8:02:05 AM
#1318824
Hazumu
@Pilotess, the point is the deceased _didn't_ pick her funeral service. Her family was _very_ unaccepting of her true gender identity, and used her funeral to proclaim their final disapproval and good-riddance. It was a statement by these fundies that even their own flesh-and-blood would be held to their high moral ideals, or punished for deviating from their straight-and-narrow. They were going to have the last word when Lashai could not answer, and they were going to have it in front of Lashai's true family, the family that accepted her after her flesh-and-blood family kicked her out.
That's why I wish the fundie index were one million.
8/5/2011 8:06:58 AM
#1318833
Cuchulainn
While I grieve for this woman, people probably should have expected ridiculous bullshit about the time Baptists became involved...
8/5/2011 8:21:44 AM
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