[Must Read]:Pastor Brings Woman’s Funeral To An Abrupt Halt When He Learns She Was A Lesbian

Vanessa Collier (photo below).

This story was actually according to Thinkprogess.org.

When hundreds of Vanessa Collier’s closest loved ones crammed into the pews of New Hope Ministries in Lakewood, Colorado on Saturday to attend her funeral, they settled in
for the mix of melancholy and merriment that often accompanies a burial: mourning, storytelling, and a passionate celebration of life.

But after about 15 minutes, Pastor Ray Chavez abruptly brought the service to a halt.

In a move that shocked those present, Chavez said he wouldn’t proceed with the ceremony because Collier, a mother of two, was a lesbian.

According to the Denver Post , Chavez said he would only continue the service if images of Collier and her wife, positioned around the
casket, were removed.

The family, outraged, refused, and “picked up programs, flowers and
eventually the dead woman’s casket itself” before relocating at a mortuary across the street.

The scores of attendees, many of them reportedly lesbians themselves, followed suit, abandoning the church.

“It was humiliating,” Victoria Quintana, Collier’s friend, told the Denver Post.

“It was devastating.”

Hurt and frustrated, dozens of friends and supporters of Collier reconvened in front of New Hope Ministries on Tuesday to protest the
pastor’s decision.

Holding images of the deceased, who police say is thought to have
committed suicide, the demonstrators shouted
chants of “Give us an apology!” and “Shame on Pastor Ray!” According to the group’s Facebook page , the protestors also noted that
Chavez, who reportedly referred to Collier’s sexuality as an “alternative lifestyle,” has yet to refund the family the cost of the funeral.

“You will not find Jesus at New Hope but you will find hypocrisy,” one sign, held by a protestor, read .

Has Pastor Ray taken the right decision?.

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