A Denver pastor stopped Vanessa Collier’s funeral 15 minutes into the service because of a remembrance video showing photos of Collier and her wife kissing, according to reports.

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A Colorado church canceled Vanessa Collier's funeral after her family refused to edit a video showing photos of Collier with her wife and children, The Denver Post reported.

Collier, 33, died on Dec. 30 when her gun went off while she was cleaning it. She was a mother to two girls, 7 and 11.

Pastor Ray Chavez stopped Collier's memorial 15 minutes into the service at the New Hope Ministries on Saturday because of a remembrance video showing photos of Collier and her wife Christina Higley kissing.

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The video included the couple's engagement photos as well as photos of the couple with their two children. Friends said they had given New Hope a copy of the video on Friday, Jan. 9, but the church misplaced it, ABC 7News reported.

Reviewing the video moments before the funeral, New Hope found photos of Collier and Higley kissing objectionable and asked the family to remove them from the montage.

But Collier's family declined to remove the photos.

"They didn't want to edit her life," Collier's friend, Jose Silva, told 7News.

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