Bay to Breakers owner helped establish church founded on anti-gay principles

Bay to Breakers owner/operator John Kane helped establish a break-away church that was founded on anti-gay principles.

In a 2016 pledgeit post, Kane said, “My Church, Holy Trinity Church in Raleigh, NC, is extremely important to me. I was a founding member of over [sic] 12 years ago…”

In 2015, the Raleigh News & Observer reported that Kane's church "left the Episcopal church in 2004 largely because of the national church’s acceptance of a gay bishop in New Hampshire.” The split also centered on the Episcopal Church’s acceptance of gay marriage.

On its website, Holy Trinity Church says it viewed the situation as a “crisis.” Kane’s church is part of the Anglican Church of North America, which calls homosexuality “disordered affection,” and called the Supreme Court’s decision on same-sex marriage a “stark departure from God’s revealed order.”

ACNA’s current Archbishop said the church was formed because, by accepting gay marriage and gay ministers, the Episcopal Church had “taken spiritual depravity to new depth for the modern era” and that these acts are an “abomination before the Lord.”

As we previously reported, Kane founded and owns Capstone Events, which operates Bay to Breakers, and he's a financial backer of some of America's most anti-LGBTQ politicians, including Marjorie Taylor Greene, Jim Jordan and Rand Paul.