How could any person be so infested with hatred to refuse a person's funeral?

You say hatred. While that might be true, my guess is that, more often than not, it isn’t.

My opinion:

It is most often fear (irrational by my standards and yours) -fear of something that is not understood and not part of a person’s culture.

It may also be ignorance, or just plain stupidity.

Basically, what I am saying that is that there may not be a malevolent motive for exclusion of a gay person’s funeral, but rather a much simpler explanation.

This doesn’t excuse anything at all – in an ideal world people would be informed and rational. But they aren’t.

Politically, the LGBTQ movement appears to like describing situations like this as hatred – it’s good for public support and great for engendering sympathy. But it’s not always true. (I don’t know if it is in this case or not).

I caution the LGBTQ movement, with which I agree in almost all cases – that crying ‘wolf’ too often diminishes the value of the message.

My link appears to be broken so here is another source

Churches suck. Everything they are based on officially totally blows.

Who doesn’t know this?

I think @elbanditoroso pretty much hit the nail on the head. Many of the “hate-filled” people are merely ignorant. Sadly, they cherish their ignorance to the point of wearing it like a badge of honor.

In fact, in their eyes, we are the ignorant ones because we don’t “know” that homosexuality leads to pedophilia, Communism and eternal damnation for everyone who treats homosexuals as anything less than pure evil.

@elbanditoroso ”...fear of something that is not understood and not part of a person’s culture.”
That sounds to me like Arkansas is part of Eastern Africa rather than part of the US.

As a gay man who personally knew another gay man who was murdered because of his sexuality and another gay man bludgeoned with baseball bats for the same reason, I state that the use of the word “hatred” is absolutely correct in this instance. Calling it anything less is a bald-faced lie meant to placate your fragile sensitivities.

Saying they are ignorant sounds sadly apologetic. This is willful ignorance based on Bullshit of the highest degree. I find no excuse for it what so ever.

@Hawaii_Jake Well said

A good example of this insanity is here in America with this psycho, mostly family members, Westboro Baptist ” church” that promotes the worst kind of hatred, it is astounding.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westboro_Baptist_Church

@Hawaii_Jake @cazzie Are you two denying that fear often leads to hatred? Or that people fear the unknown or things they have been misinformed about? People who have had bad experiences and those who place blind faith in an unreliable source of information tend to feel that they know all they need to know without any need to dig deeper to find root causes. It’s possible to hate without being ignorant, but that’s uncommon enough that I feel it about as safe to assume hatred comes from ignorance as it is to assume that any person you select at random will have ten fingers.

@Hawaii_Jake If you knew how I felt about ignorance, you would not be able to say I was “calling it anything less” unless you yourself told a bald-faced lie.

@cazzie If you find that apologetic then I question whether or not you are too ignorant (and possibly hate-filled) to understand simple causality. I find your blatant unwillingness to dig deeper to be willfully ignorant to the point of being offensive to the point where it’s an affront to complete bullshit.

@jerv You’re reading into what I wrote meaning that is not there.

I think it best to bow out before I just piss off those too simplistic to follow my train of thought.

^Please do.

To avoid the freaking family.