First Family Church fires back at Kansas City Star

Last week, The Kansas City Star put Jerry Johnston’s First Family Church back under the microscope. This time, for spending hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees and on public relations (because, as First Family put it, of “attacks” by the daily paper to cripple the church’s “political impact”).

Now, Bottom Line has a letter from Robert Ulrich of the church’s board of directors. Surprise! Ulrich says the church isn’t doing anything wrong. But he’s pretty sure he knows why the Star‘s Judy Thomas is being a big ol’ meanie: the church’s stance against abortion, gays and gay marriage.

“What is the motive for the article?” Ulrich asks. “Is it another desperate effort by a dying newspaper to sell copy, or does the newspaper’s campaign over the last three years reflect that it is championing a radical bias?”

Oh, no you didn’t! Suck on that, Star. There’s nothing more exciting sadder than watching a dying newspaper battle an (allegedly) dying church.