Hate pastor forced to resign from NYC position after horrific anti-LGBTQ comments were made public

The pastor said her kid turned transgender after being in the same room as a lesbian, but that she was able to pray the kid back to being cisgender.

NYC Mayor Eric Adams
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New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) pushed an appointee to resign after her history of extreme anti-LGBTQ rhetoric came to light.

Rev. Kathlyn Barrett-Layne of Reach Out and Touch Ministries was one of nine people the mayor picked for the city’s Panel on Educational Policy. She’s the latest in a string of anti-LGBTQ nominees by the Adams administration, but the first that the mayor has turned on.

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In nominating her, Adams’s office issued a press release that said Barrett-Layne “spends her time inspiring people with her speaking and teaching in Bible studies.”

Just hours later, The New York Daily News published some of her anti-LGBTQ comments. She compared homosexuality to pedophilia in her 2013 book Challenging your Disappointments and said that being gay is one of many “temptations” Christians face.

“Leaders struggle with the same temptations of drugs, alcohol, homosexuality, fornication, adultery, pedophilia, stealing, lying, envy, covetousness, and every other sin that the congregation struggle with,” she wrote. She also wrote that prison inmates “live in the grip of fornicating homosexual lifestyles.”

In her 2004 book When your Mess Becomes the Message, Barrett-Layne said that her child told her…

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