Roman Catholics hate gays even when they're dead and buried in a Rhode Island Cemetery

(Cranston, Rhode Island) A walk through St. Ann's Cemetery in Cranston, Rhode Island is walk through people's lives - the markers tell the stories of 'loving fathers', 'caring wives' and 'devoted couples'.

But not if those couples happen to be gay, as Rick Paolino discovered when he made arrangements for the crypt marker for his late husband Justin. The Paolino's were married in Massachusetts. Justin, a bus monitor for the West Warwick School Department, died unexpectedly last month at home.

He was interred at St. Ann's Cemetery.  When Rick went to order the inscription on the crypt cemetery officials told him he could have the marker indicate he was Justin's husband.

They also turned down "spouse" and finally "beloved".

"I just want this to be recognized," Paolino told WJAR in Providence. "In two or three hundred years when that name is there, I want someone to know that this person loved this person."

"It really hurts because I really feel that they've tossed me aside and tossed my feelings aside and my love for a person aside and that person's love for me aside," he told the station.

The cemetery is maintained by the Catholic diocese of Providence.  A spokesperson for St. Ann's said it abides by the regulations of the Church and that the diocese has the final word on the type of memorials that can be used in order "to uphold the dignity of the cemetery."

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