"We did decline to host the service - not based on hatred, not based on discrimination, but based on principle. Had we known it on the day they first spoke about it - yes, we would have declined then. It's not that we didn't love the family."
- Rev. Gary Simons of High Point Church in Texas, trying to explain why the megachurch agreed to host - and then canceled the day before it was to happen - a memorial service for a Navy veteran whose obituary listed his gay partner as one of his survivors
- Rev. Gary Simons of High Point Church in Texas, trying to explain why the megachurch agreed to host - and then canceled the day before it was to happen - a memorial service for a Navy veteran whose obituary listed his gay partner as one of his survivors
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