A funeral home rejected a dead man’s body because he was gay

[JA]

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[Dr. Arch]

First a bakery, then a funeral, soon it'll be hospitals and legal services. Jim Crow all over again.

[JA]

First a bakery, then a funeral, soon it'll be hospitals and legal services. Jim Crow all over again.

But, but, the Constitution! They have a Constitutional right to engage in religiously motivated discrimination. Would you want to violate the 1st Amendment to the Bill of Rights?

[Torie]

This is not a good set of facts for the funeral home. In fact, each and every one of them is exacerbating. There seems to be clear breach of contract. The issue is whether a tort lies (that is where the big bucks lie), and this FH seems to have done its best to generate one. That's the good news. The bad news, is well, a local jury will be involved unless summary judgement is obtained. That might be doable for the breach of contract, but unlikely for the tort. We shall see.

Oh, and what set of religious beliefs holds that dead gays should be not cremated? Maybe the FH got SSM and cremation mixed up or something.

[7,052,770]

So this is almost certainly fake news, but yes obviously this should be illegal.

It's really irresponsible of Vox to print this as fact when it's just an unproven allegation, but that's Vox for you...

[GeorgiaModerate]

So this is almost certainly fake news, but yes obviously this should be illegal.

It's really irresponsible of Vox to print this as fact when it's just an unproven allegation, but that's Vox for you...

Why do you assume it's fake news?  A ten-second Google search finds the story on several news outlets that are more mainstream, for example http://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/gay-man-sues-funeral-home-refused-his-82-year-old-n753856.

[ProudModerate2]

So this is almost certainly fake news, but yes obviously this should be illegal.

It's really irresponsible of Vox to print this as fact when it's just an unproven allegation, but that's Vox for you...

Why do you assume it's fake news?  A ten-second Google search finds the story on several news outlets that are more mainstream, for example http://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/gay-man-sues-funeral-home-refused-his-82-year-old-n753856.

Agree.
Why would you think this is fake news ?
It's sad, but people use religion to discriminate, hate and cause (emotional) pain on others, all in the name of God/Jesus. Dummy me .... I thought Christianity was about LOVE.

[JA]

So this is almost certainly fake news, but yes obviously this should be illegal.

It's really irresponsible of Vox to print this as fact when it's just an unproven allegation, but that's Vox for you...

Why do you assume it's fake news?  A ten-second Google search finds the story on several news outlets that are more mainstream, for example http://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/gay-man-sues-funeral-home-refused-his-82-year-old-n753856.

Agree.
Why would you think this is fake news ?
It's sad, but people use religion to discriminate, hate and cause (emotional) pain on others, all in the name of God/Jesus. Dummy me .... I thought Christianity was about LOVE.

Christian love is reserved solely for those who think, look, and have the same sexual orientation as themselves.

[7,052,770]

So this is almost certainly fake news, but yes obviously this should be illegal.

It's really irresponsible of Vox to print this as fact when it's just an unproven allegation, but that's Vox for you...

Why do you assume it's fake news?  A ten-second Google search finds the story on several news outlets that are more mainstream, for example http://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/gay-man-sues-funeral-home-refused-his-82-year-old-n753856.

Because the funeral home vehemently denies it, and it makes no sense for a funeral home that's undoubtedly buried lots of gays over the years  to suddenly start hating them in 2017.

[ProudModerate2]

So this is almost certainly fake news, but yes obviously this should be illegal.

It's really irresponsible of Vox to print this as fact when it's just an unproven allegation, but that's Vox for you...

Why do you assume it's fake news?  A ten-second Google search finds the story on several news outlets that are more mainstream, for example http://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/gay-man-sues-funeral-home-refused-his-82-year-old-n753856.

Because the funeral home vehemently denies it, and it makes no sense for a funeral home that's undoubtedly buried lots of gays over the years  to suddenly start hating them in 2017.

"trump," maybe ?
Look at other bat-sh**t-crazy trump-igots, and some of their bizarre actions "in 2017."

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

I'm considerably libertarian on this issue and I can marginally, just barely imagine a situation in which a funeral home might legitimately want to avoid hosting the ceremony on religious grounds, since those often have a religious flavor to them. But for corpse preparation and cremation?  Even my stridently libertarian side can't find any reason to not want to make some money for those services.

[tallguy23]

Who are the 4 monsters who voted YES on this?

[Pericles]

So this is almost certainly fake news, but yes obviously this should be illegal.

It's really irresponsible of Vox to print this as fact when it's just an unproven allegation, but that's Vox for you...

Why do you assume it's fake news?  A ten-second Google search finds the story on several news outlets that are more mainstream, for example http://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/gay-man-sues-funeral-home-refused-his-82-year-old-n753856.

Because the funeral home vehemently denies it, and it makes no sense for a funeral home that's undoubtedly buried lots of gays over the years  to suddenly start hating them in 2017.

You'd take the homophobes at their word? That's gullible for you.

[7,052,770]

So this is almost certainly fake news, but yes obviously this should be illegal.

It's really irresponsible of Vox to print this as fact when it's just an unproven allegation, but that's Vox for you...

Why do you assume it's fake news?  A ten-second Google search finds the story on several news outlets that are more mainstream, for example http://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/gay-man-sues-funeral-home-refused-his-82-year-old-n753856.

Because the funeral home vehemently denies it, and it makes no sense for a funeral home that's undoubtedly buried lots of gays over the years  to suddenly start hating them in 2017.

You'd take the homophobes at their word? That's gullible for you.

Obviously not in every case. But this story doesn't pass the smell test. Obviously every funeral home buries gays all the time, so this story is either made up, or the funeral home changed their policy recently to not serve gays after serving them for years.

I guess it's possible that one rogue employee did this on his own, or they did it on purpose to become Co service folk hero millionaires like sh**tty Pizza in Indiana, but it seems unlikely.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

So this is almost certainly fake news, but yes obviously this should be illegal.

It's really irresponsible of Vox to print this as fact when it's just an unproven allegation, but that's Vox for you...

Why do you assume it's fake news?  A ten-second Google search finds the story on several news outlets that are more mainstream, for example http://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/gay-man-sues-funeral-home-refused-his-82-year-old-n753856.

Because the funeral home vehemently denies it, and it makes no sense for a funeral home that's undoubtedly buried lots of gays over the years  to suddenly start hating them in 2017.

You'd take the homophobes at their word? That's gullible for you.

Obviously not in every case. But this story doesn't pass the smell test. Obviously every funeral home buries gays all the time, so this story is either made up, or the funeral home changed their policy recently to not serve gays after serving them for years.

I guess it's possible that one rogue employee did this on his own, or they did it on purpose to become Co service folk hero millionaires like sh**tty Pizza in Indiana, but it seems unlikely.

Harry, it wouldn't surprise me in the least that this is the first time that this funeral home had been asked to provide service for a same-sex widower. So this doesn't seem the least bit implausible.

[Brittain33]

Obviously not in every case. But this story doesn't pass the smell test. Obviously every funeral home buries gays all the time

That assumption is not at all obvious, and is probably quite wrong. This is a funeral home in rural Mississippi, probably the last place in the country you'll find gay couples, and same-sex marriage has only been legal there since 2015, i.e. 2 years ago. I would be shocked if this funeral home had buried someone in a same-sex marriage before.

It's possible they've buried people who were gay before, but unknowingly because that person wouldn't have had a legal spouse on the form and this being southern Mississippi, no one would have talked about it.

[RINO Tom]

Like, how did that even come up?

[Brittain33]

Like, how did that even come up?

His spouse who worked with the funeral home was of the same sex as the deceased.

[HAnnA MArin County]

Will the owner of this funeral home be given a speaking slot at the next RNC?

[afleitch]

Baking cakes, burying the dead. What other imposition will the gays place on Christians?

[ProudModerate2]

Will the owner of this funeral home be given a speaking slot at the next RNC?

I wouldn't be surprised.

[Xing]

Something, something, "religious freedom"

[Kingpoleon]

If ever proof were needed that we fought for a cause and not for conquest, it could be found in these funeral homes. Here was our only request: all we asked of Christians was enough of their soil to bury our gallant dead.

[TDAS04]

I don't care if rejecting a gay person's body at your funeral home is what your "deeply held religious beliefs" call for.  This is bigotry, plain and simple. 

[dead0man]

I'm considerably libertarian on this issue and I can marginally, just barely imagine a situation in which a funeral home might legitimately want to avoid hosting the ceremony on religious grounds, since those often have a religious flavor to them. But for corpse preparation and cremation?  Even my stridently libertarian side can't find any reason to not want to make some money for those services.

indeed