Jerome, Jesus loved the lepers that no one accepted. What would Jesus do? Now you have your answer. You will know them by their fruits is another Scripture. If you were not a disturbance at the funeral you should have been able to attend your child's funeral. God is Love and no one has the right to ostracize anyone else. Due to your gay lifestyle, even if the Pastor does not accept it,---he is called to LOVE with Christ's LOVE. The Church also bans the mentally ill. This Church pastor does not love with Christ's Love for the mentally ill or for the gays. He does reach out to the alcoholics and the addicts though and those who are ex convicts. His wife is an RN so she is educated and they should love unconditionally and not discriminate. They adopted 4 African American children and you would think that they do not discriminate. They wanted me to do something that would have slandered my own name and would not accept my apology for a misunderstanding that they misunderstood and labeled me on. They judged me hard because of their slanted viewpoints and wanted me to write a letter to slander my name so they could pass it to other churches they affiliate with and ruin my credibility. I suspect they are doing this because I shared my mental illness diagnosis with them. They wanted me to state in the letter that I lied and I did not. I typed a letter of reference that my friend asked me to type for them because they do not type. My friend told me the words to type. He quizzed my friend of the reference letter and my friend was a foreigner and did not understand the Pastor, so the pastor accused me of lying because I typed the reference letter that my friend verbalized the words for. The Pastor accused me of committing fraud. People called secretaries type their bosses letters all the time and they are not committing fraud. I even apologized to bring peace but Pastor Jon refused to accept apology and wanted me to write a letter that I lied and he would share it with other churches to warn them of me. Totally wrong! Jesus would not have slandered someone for typing a letter like any secretary does throughout the day and the bosses sign them. My friend signed the letter and the Pastor is calling this fraud. He did not want me in his church due to my mental illness. They do discriminate on that and also gay people. Sorry this happened to you. Jesus Love meets us where we are at. While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Sorry to say that I spoke to an attorney who states the Church is allowed to discriminate and can choose to ban someone since it is private property. Pastors have to answer to JESUS CHRIST who is the final Judge. If they do not make amends and apologize, they will have to answer to the Final Judge on Judgement Day. I would have a meeting with the pastor and explain to him in a patient tone of voice how you feel and why you are gay and then let it go. Make sure you bring a witness with you when you do this or a tape recorder. You know how things are twisted.
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