Kansas City Brookside Catholics Shame ICE Facility Developers

Tonight we wanted to share a local story that speaks to this town's pathological sense of politeness and social niceties which don't seem to be fading despite the current divisive and course social media era. 

To wit . . .

KANSAS CITY PROGRESSIVES DELIVER ON PROMISES TO SHUN & SHAME LOCAL CATHOLIC PARISHIONERS HELPING ICE DEVELOP A LOCAL DETENTION FACILITY!!!

For those unfamiliar with local life . . . This is a bigger deal than it seems. 

Old school "social standing" still buys a lot in Kansas City and can dictate economic opportunities, peer groups and even quality of life for those who value real life relationships beyond their mobile phone. 

Accordingly . . . And penned by a Pulitzer prize winner . .  . 

Here are the opening lines of an upscale neighborhood controversy,  a comedy of manners and the customs of our cowtown turning the political into the personal and even spiritual . . . 

"For Kansas City Catholics, Visitation Parish in Brookside has always been the place where power went to pray. I used to pray there, too, though I belong to a different parish now. 

"There's nothing wrong with having resources; it's notably harder to feed the hungry and clothe the naked without them. 

"But it's what Jesus says about welcoming the stranger that's put Visitation, and really all of Catholic KC, at the uncomfortable center of righteous pushback against the plan to put an ICE detention center that could hold as many as 10,000 people in a warehouse in south Kansas City.

"That's because Terry and Ryan Anderson, the brothers who are selling that property to the government, are not just Visitation parishioners but major donors there. And Terry and his wife Lindsey are heading the Visitation School's current capital campaign."

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

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