CHRISTIAN HEADLINES/ Milton Quintanilla-
New York City Mayor Eric Adams has fired an education advisor from the city’s Panel for Education Policy after the New York Daily News reported on some of her past writings on gender and sexuality.
The Rev. Kathlyn Barrett-Layne, who leads Staten Island’s Reach Out and Touch Ministries, was initially one of nine appointees to NYC’s Panel for Education Policy (PEP), which replaced the Board of Education in 2002 and is part of overseeing the city’s public schools.
After Adams announced Barrett-Layne’s appointment to the PEP on March 22, the New York Daily News published an article highlighting past writings by Barrett-Layne on biblical sexuality. Within hours of Adams’ public announcement of the appointment, Barrett-Layne was reportedly asked to resign.
According to The Christian Post, the New York Daily News cited Barrett-Layne’s 2013 book, Challenging Your Disappointments, as evidence for her “anti-gay” agenda. In the book, Barrett-Layne listed homosexuality among other sins, including “fornication, adultery, pedophilia, stealing, lying, envy, [and] covetousness.”
Also, in her book, Barrett-Layne argued that incarcerated young people “live in the grip of fornicating homosexual lifestyles with the risk of being infected with the AIDS virus and other sexually transmitted diseases.” Continue reading…
