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   Homosexuals and lesbians don't believe in God.  They have no   
   need for a funeral in a church.  It is just one more leftist   
   attack on the bastion of civilized behavior and religion.   
      
   A Lakewood, Colorado, minister refused to hold a memorial   
   service on Saturday for a mother of two at his church because   
   the woman is gay, family and friends said Tuesday.   
      
   "Her casket was open, flowers laid out and hundreds of people   
   sitting in the pews," supporters said in a Facebook post. "He   
   collected money for the funeral and has yet to return it."   
      
   Vanessa Collier was 33 when she died in late December, leaving   
   behind her wife and children.   
      
   "You will not find Jesus at New Hope but you will find   
   hypocrisy," said a sign carried at a demonstration outside the   
   church Tuesday by family and friends.   
      
   "Indignity in death," read another placard.   
      
   Security guards were stationed in front of the church.   
      
   "Give us an apology!" protesters chanted.   
      
   A representative for New Hope Ministries, where the pastor, Ray   
   Chavez, is based, declined to comment before hanging up on a   
   Denver Post reporter.   
      
   A biography on the church website says Chavez founded the church   
   in 1981 with his wife, Lola. It says the church "is a place   
   where those bound by drugs, alcohol, gangs and violence can find   
   an 'Ounce of Hope.'"   
      
   "If the story is true, it truly is appalling that a family would   
   have to go through this," said Rex Fuller, a spokesman for the   
   Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Community Center of Colorado.   
   "It's just a really tragic situation."   
      
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