NYC BBQ Restaurant Responds to Claims It Booted Church for Homosexual Sermons

[SecularMotion]

The worship services had been taking place every Sunday at the restaurant, until the church made plans to preach a sermon about same-sex attraction, according to Wyatt.

"After only meeting in our new space for a couple of months, we were asked to leave. The restaurant that was hosting us had received significant backlash from the neighborhood for hosting a Christian church in their space," Wyatt wrote on his blog post on The City Resource website.

"The backlash came before the sermon was even preached yet was enough to motivate the restaurant to end their partnership with us," Wyatt added.

The pastor went on to argue that although the church was paying a sizeable rent of $25,000 per year for the restaurant space as well as $150 to the restaurant's sound technician, "disassociating from a Christian church was more valuable" to the restaurant than the money.

http://www.christianpost.com/news/nyc-bbq-restaurant-responds-to-claims-it-booted-church-for-homosexual-sermons-100970/

[cbayer]

1. It's unclear from this article whether the church was supporting or fighting

against GLBT rights.

So, I looked up another article and found that the church was preaching against GLBT rights.
http://www.ontopmag.com/article.aspx?id=15956&MediaType=1&Category=26

They didn't want to be associated with that and discontinued their relationship with that church.

I think they did the right thing.

[MotherPetrie]

2. Thanks for the info, which answered the question I had. Good for the restaurant.

[cbayer]

3. Not sue whether the posted article is intentionally ambiguous or not,

but that source definitely has it's own agenda.

[MotherPetrie]

4. My take on it as well, so I do think it was intentionally ambiguous.

[SecularMotion]

6. It's widely known that the lower west side of NYC is a gay community.

It's safe to assume that any backlash from the local neighborhood would be against a church with an anti-gay agenda.

[cbayer]

7. That's what I figured, but the article seemed to be intentionally unclear.

[LeftofObama]

5. This is why I love DU.

When an article is unclear someone like you comes along to sort it out. Thanks cbayer! People like you are why I'm here!

[cbayer]

8. That's why I love it too, LO.

Things don't stay unclear for long around here.

Thanks so much for the kudos.

[kestrel91316]

9. The restaurant had no obligation to continue a relationship that was guaranteed to

seriously damage its bottom line.

[mitchtv]

10. Persecuting Christians !!!!!!!!!!!

purposely ambiguous