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Kansas City Withdraws Funding for Anti-Gay Christian Conference
Sunday, July 12, 2009
By Michael Mansur
The Kansas City Star
Kansas City officials said Thursday that they would pull city support from a large spiritual conference planned at Bartle Hall this month.
The action came after Kansas City Council members expressed concern about a scheduled preacher who has condemned homosexuals.
David Park, acting director of neighborhoods and community services, said he would not recommend the council approve a $5,000 grant to organizers of the Life Changers Conference, set for July 15-19. Park said he was concerned that the event violated city requirements that it not be religious in nature.
At the council’s business session, council member Deb Hermann said the conference would feature a speaker who has used hateful speech against the gay and lesbian community. The council later passed a resolution that condemned hateful, hurtful and harmful speech. It also recognized the gay and lesbian community.
Park said the event schedule showed worship services listed, which would appear to violate city requirements that the event organizers “provide no religious instruction or counseling, conduct no religious worship or services, engage in no religious proselytizing and exert no religious influence.”...(Remainder.)
The Kansas City Star
Kansas City officials said Thursday that they would pull city support from a large spiritual conference planned at Bartle Hall this month.
The action came after Kansas City Council members expressed concern about a scheduled preacher who has condemned homosexuals.
David Park, acting director of neighborhoods and community services, said he would not recommend the council approve a $5,000 grant to organizers of the Life Changers Conference, set for July 15-19. Park said he was concerned that the event violated city requirements that it not be religious in nature.
At the council’s business session, council member Deb Hermann said the conference would feature a speaker who has used hateful speech against the gay and lesbian community. The council later passed a resolution that condemned hateful, hurtful and harmful speech. It also recognized the gay and lesbian community.
Park said the event schedule showed worship services listed, which would appear to violate city requirements that the event organizers “provide no religious instruction or counseling, conduct no religious worship or services, engage in no religious proselytizing and exert no religious influence.”...(Remainder.)
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