{"id":38078,"date":"2014-08-09T11:44:56","date_gmt":"2014-08-09T11:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=38078"},"modified":"2014-08-09T11:44:56","modified_gmt":"2014-08-09T11:44:56","slug":"church-cancels-mans-funeral-after-finding-out-he-was-gay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=38078","title":{"rendered":"Church cancels man\u2019s funeral after finding out he was gay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Julion Evans\u00a0died at the young age of 42 from amyloidosis and his funeral was booked at the church he and his family had attended all his life.<\/p>\n<p>However, his husband, Kendall Capers, and Evan\u2019s family were notified the night before that the\u00a0church was cancelling the funeral due to the fact Evans was gay.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ksdk.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2014\/08\/08\/florida-church-cancels-funeral-gay-man\/13764107\/\">KSDK<\/a>\u00a0reported that the New Hope Missionary Baptist Church\u00a0found out about\u00a0the deceased\u2019s sexuality after church members read his obituary, which described Capers as the \u2018surviving husband\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The church\u2019s pastor, TW Jenkins, told KSDK: \u2018I try not to condemn anyone\u2019s lifestyle, but at the same time I am a man of God and have to stand upon my principles.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0service\u00a0instead took place at the funeral home where the wake was held.<\/p>\n<p>Pastor Jenkins has expressed his\u00a0regret that the decision was only made the night before.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0metro.co.uk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Julion Evans\u00a0died at the young age of 42 from amyloidosis and his funeral was booked at the church he and his family had attended all his life. However, his husband, Kendall Capers, and Evan\u2019s family were notified the night before that the\u00a0church was cancelling the funeral due to the fact Evans was gay. KSDK\u00a0reported that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3040,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-38078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-togbe-afede-xiv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}