Wichita, Kansas, USA - Religious bigotry may be behind the withdrawal of the proposal to open a second Lord's Diner in Wichita, Kansas. Every day for 8 years, the Lord's Diner has served a hot meal to 400-500 hungry people in its existing location. The Catholic charity offered to open a second location where it would occupy a vacant, city-owned building that was formerly a Boys and Girls Club in the city's north end but was met with stiff opposition from a small, but vocal group of mostly African-American citizens. They claimed the area was already adequately serviced by their own area churches - except none of those churches provide a daily meal opportunity.
The Lord's Diner would have purchased the property outright and renovated it for use. Now building remains empty with no other foreseeable plans in the pipeline, though the charity's opposition claimed the Diner's moving into the area would hamper revitalization efforts and attract the wrong crowd into the largely black community.
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