A Mississippi funeral home refused to perform a cremation of a man when it learned the decedent was a married gay man.
Robert Huskey passed away in May 2016 after his heart condition worsened over the previous year. Knowing that his death was imminent, Huskey’s nephew had made arrangements with the local funeral home the month before his passing.
But according to a lawsuit announced Tuesday by Lambda Legal, the Picayune Funeral Home suddenly refused to pick up and cremate Huskey’s body as planned on the day of his death. All because that day, the lawsuit alleges, the funeral home discovered Huskey was gay and married to Jack Zawadski, his partner of 52 years.
I would have thought that, being Godly and all, the funeral home could have consoled itself with the thought that their association with gays went no further than introducing them to hellfire.