Thomas Lynch in article at the Huffington Post has bamboozled, and hijacked the Bereaved Consumers Bill of Rights for his own agenda. In the Huff Post article he puts online Casket sellers in the same league with as Clayton Smart and the archbishop of Detroit, funeral criminals.
Yes the Bereaved Consumers Protection act will regulate online casket sellers, which now constitute a big threat to the funeral industry and the home town funeral home. They do disclose their prices, so what is the big deal?
“Online Caskets are hurting the traditional funeral homes business big time and helping the funeral consumer. Lynch Goes after the Funeral Corporations in his article. I agree with that. He says there should be no religious exemption to HR 355. I agree. But the situation right now there is that exemption in the new legislation.
Snippet from Huff Post:
A bill currently working its way through the US Congress, known as The Bereaved Consumer Bill of Rights (HR 3655) would bring all “vendors” of mortuary wares — Amazon and Costco, archbishops and their factotums — under the same consumer protections the Federal Trade Commission applied to funeral homes back in the mid-1980′s. It was stalled in May by an amendment proposed to exempt church-owned cemeteries. It comes up for a Energy and Commerce Committee vote in the coming week.
That amendment should be rejected and the bill should become law. When archbishops partner with moguls, whether prayed over or preyed upon, consumers need all the protections they can get.
Thomas Lynch is a writer and a funeral director in Milford, Michigan.”
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