Thu Mar 24, 2022 – 12:54 pm EDT
NEW YORK CITY (LifeSiteNews) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams fired a recently appointed education advisor after the New York Daily News reported her views on homosexuality.
Mayor Adams named Kathlyn Barrett-Layne on Tuesday to the Panel for Educational Policy (PEP), along with eight other appointees. PEP is the governing body for the city’s education department. His administration asked her to resign hours after the announcement.
The Daily News took credit for getting her removed from the board after it reported on several books Barrett-Layne had written. Barrett-Layne, who is black, runs a faith-based organization and Pentecostal church.
“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,” Barrett-Layne wrote in a 2013 book called “Challenging Your Disappointments.”
“They live in the grip of fornicating homosexual lifestyles,” Barrett-Layne wrote about prisoners in the same book, according to the Daily News.
She also wrote, in another book called “When Your Mess Becomes the Message,” about praying for her 3-year-old daughter after she said she was a boy.
Barrett-Layne wrote:
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