Kansas City Mayor Kay Barnes has explained her personal boycott of the Mayors’ Prayer Breakfast (2/20, Metro). Last year’s speaker, Bill Dunn Sr., denounced the trends of illegitimate births and same-sex marriage, and criticized activist judges and the ACLU.
Evidently Mayor Barnes wants these trends to continue within the borders of Kansas City. If most voters had known she supports these “values,” I am sure she would never have been elected mayor.
Instead of choosing to support freedom of speech, she boycotts.
John Athon
Overland Park
Oh, no! Not the prayer breakfast again.
I wonder that if Bill Dunn could build a great big switch to throw, like the County Club Plaza lights switch, that would create an environment based upon all the values and ethics he spoke about in his speech last year (the same ones he grew up with in the “Greatest Generation”), would Mayor Kay Barnes snub her nose at the chance to throw it and stay home?
I’ll take your world any day, Mr. Dunn. Thank you for not letting us forget what life used to be like. And thank you for your many contributions to this city.
Tommy Fagan
Leawood
I commend Mayor Kay Barnes for not attending the Mayors’ Prayer Breakfast. Her position led me to consider why there is such a gathering at all.
I would prefer that prayer assemblages be convened by religious leaders, not political leaders. There are too many examples in the world today of problems generated by mixing political and religious energies — the Mideast an unfortunate example.
Jack Mayer
Mission
