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- What Emails Show About the Wake Forest Pride Proclamation
- An INDY Writer Tries A Local Dating App
- Starpoint Brewery Has New Ownership
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- A Roundup of Durham Food Resources
Good morning, readers.
It seemed like an odd move, back in September, when Wake Forest mayor Vivian Jones abruptly walked back a proclamation she was intending to make to recognize Pride month in October. Jones, who has served as the mayor of the fast-growing town in northern Wake County for more than two decades, is in a fight for reelection to her seat with a sitting town commissioner, Ben Clapsaddle.
But recent public records shed some light on one of the reasons, perhaps, that Jones decided to retract the proclamation: the president of the Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, which has been located in the town since the 1950s, personally asked her to.
A trove of public records detail the week between the September 2 work session, during which Jones announced her intention to make the proclamation, and her September 9 Facebook post explaining that she had mixed up Pride month with LGBTQ History Month but had decided against making any proclamation to recognize the LGBTQ community at all.
The records also detail a longstanding friendship between Jones and the seminary’s president, Daniel Akin, and the influence that the seminary—arguably the most powerful institution in Wake Forest—has been able to exert on the town, with which it partners on many important initiatives including development projects.
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—Jane
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