{"id":1951,"date":"2020-05-01T22:47:34","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T22:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/?p=1951"},"modified":"2020-05-01T22:47:34","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T22:47:34","slug":"statement-from-speaker-corey-johnson-on-samaritans-purse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2020\/05\/01\/1951\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement from Speaker Corey Johnson on Samaritan\u2019s Purse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>New York, NY<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 \u201cIt is time for Samaritan&#8217;s Purse to leave New York City. This group, which is led by the notoriously bigoted, hate-spewing Franklin Graham, came at a time when our city couldn&#8217;t in good conscience turn away any offer of help. That time has passed. Their continued presence here is an affront to our values of inclusion, and is painful for all New Yorkers who care deeply about the LGBTQ community.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am aware that our battle against COVID-19 is still ongoing, and that our health care system &#8211; and the amazing workers who have been the heroes of this unprecedented time in our history &#8211; still needs support. At the City Council, we are committed to supporting those workers and protecting our city&#8217;s public health. But as a city that values diversity and compassion for all, we cannot continue to allow a group with the track record of Samaritan&#8217;s Purse to remain here when we are past the point they are needed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMount Sinai must sever its relationship with Samaritan\u2019s Purse. Its leader calls the LGBTQ community \u2018detestable\u2019 and \u2018immoral.\u2019 He says being gay is \u2018an affront to God,\u2019 and refers to\u00a0gay Christians as &#8220;the enemy.&#8221; Samaritan&#8217;s Purse requires its volunteers to agree to a written affirmation\u00a0\u2018that marriage is exclusively the union of one genetic male and one genetic female.\u2019\u00a0Hate\u00a0has no place in our beautiful city.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>New York, NY<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 \u201cIt is time for Samaritan&#8217;s Purse to leave New York City. This group, which is led by the notoriously bigoted, hate-spewing Franklin Graham, came at a time when our city couldn&#8217;t in good conscience turn away any offer of help. That time has passed. Their continued presence here is an affront to our values of inclusion, and is painful for all New Yorkers who care deeply about the LGBTQ community.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2020\/05\/01\/1951\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}