What was the Kansas City debacle?
I remember being told that it was terribly important to take time off work and drive up to KC for an important church event. So pretty much everyone from Lincoln did. When we got there, I slowly realized that we were witnessing some sort of purge, and we'd been called in for backup support. That wasn't how it had been represented. People were confessing things (most of which were vague . . . "disloyalty" I believe was the prominent offense). It was very bizarre and I was really rather upset that I'd been misled.
I'd already had problems with various elements of the church - primarily the way the leadership would swing wildly from this initiative to that initiative, always following a visit to DC. And there was the paper . . . which I despised as the borderline fascist propaganda it was. So I was already on the way out. The KC Debacle just crystallized a lot of things for me.
