A preacher was beaten up after delivering (in defiance of the old saying, “de mortuis nil nisi bonum”–speak only good things of the dead) a eulogy that castigated the recently departed as a “drunkard and a fornicator,” and had a grim prognosis for his happiness in the hereafter.

The preacher’s wife (whose uncle was the former fornicator in question) said that:

“the fornicators didn’t like what he said so they got up and beat him.”

There was no word as to how the drunkards reacted.