Chicago is hoping its new $20 million gay community center on the North Side, which officially opened this month, will make it a destination for homosexuals, The Associated Press reported.
The 65,000-square-foot, eco-friendly facility has a computer lab, office space for community organizations, a theater, a gym, a Whole Foods supermarket and a rooftop garden named for Mayor Richard M. Daley.
At the ribbon-cutting ceremony this month, Daley called the facility "an inspiration."
Caleb Price, a research analyst for Focus on the Family, said the center illustrates the deception of homosexual activists who regularly present themselves as a "disadvantaged community."
"However, with this new $20 million gay community center in Chicago we see more evidence that, in fact, the homosexual community is one of the wealthiest, most privileged and powerfully influential groups in the country," he said. "Yet they continue to demand special rights and recognition from society at large – all based on their self-identification with sexual behavioral preferences. This is truly astonishing – and sobering – to those who hold to a biblically orthodox view of God’s created intent for human sexuality."
