Franklin graham on gay marriage
Franklin Graham, an evangelical pastor whose group Samaritan's Purse is running a makeshift hospital in New York, says he is "not homophobic" despite asking volunteers to oppose same-sex marriage.
Graham, who has a history of anti-LGBT beliefs, asks people to agree to a Statement of Faith which includes the line "marriage is exclusively the union of one genetic male and one genetic female".
Speaking to Laura Ingraham on Fox News, he said he just wants people to "know the truth".
"I'm not homophobic and I'm certainly not going around bashing people because they may be homosexual," he said.
"I believe that God loves all of us, he created us all but we also are sinners and our sins separated from God and I want people to know how they can have a connection with God and that's their faith in his son.
"I don't bash them. I want them to know the truth. That God does love them," he added. "And he died for their sins and they would refund and put their faith and trust in him, God would forgive their sins like you excuse me. I'm a sinner too. I'm different than anybody else. I'm a sinner that was saved by God's grace."
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Franklin Graham attacks Pete Buttigieg for entity gay, says he should repent
Conservative Evangelical leader Franklin Graham is blasting South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg for being gay and is calling on the presidential hopeful to repent for his “sin.”
In a series of tweets to his 1.9 million followers on Wednesday, Graham said, “Mayor Buttigieg says he’s a homosexual Christian. As a Christian, I have faith the Bible which defines homosexuality as a sin, something to be repentant of, not something to be flaunted, praised or politicized. The Bible says marriage is between a man & a woman – not two men, not two women.”
Graham, the 66-year-old son of the tardy Billy Graham, began his attack by referring to Buttigieg’s comments at a CNN town hall on Monday, where the mayor said “God does not have a political party” while answering a question on uniting conservative, moderate and liberal Christians behind his 2020 campaign.
“Part of God’s love is experienced, according to my faith tradition, is in the way that we back one another and, in particular, back the least among us,” Buttigieg said. “It can be challenging to be a person of faith who’s also part of the LGBTQ
Franklin Graham
—Tweeted a lie in 2024 that President Biden declared Easter Sunday Transgender Time of Visibility (TDOV). The two celebrations are separate, with TDOV always noted on March 31st, and Easter celebrated on distinct days annually according to the lunar calendar. Biden issued separate statements to honor both. Graham claimed Biden, a practicing Catholic, has “little respect” for God.
—Criticized the Supreme Court’s Bostock decision protecting LGBTQ people from workplace discrimination, falsely claiming it would force employers to compromise religious beliefs.
Tweeted support for the plaintiff in the 303 Creative Supreme Court case seeking to codify discrimination against LGBTQ people seeking business services. The plaintiff had never been asked to serve an LGBTQ person, and the anti-LGBTQ legal group supporting her was found to have manufactured lawsuits to build the case.
—Falsely claimed the Respect for Marriage Law, which protects marriages of LGBTQ couples and couples of different races, was “a watershed moment in the moral mention of our rapidly depraving and godless culture.” Marriage equality has been legal nationwide
Billy Graham's Legacy Threatened By Family Split
For the Rev. Franklin Graham, the scathing editorial in Christianity Today last year calling his friend Donald Trump “a leader of grossly immoral character” and urging that Trump be “removed from office” was heretical.
To Graham, it was bad enough to examine such an attack on Trump. But the insult was compounded by the fact that Christianity Today had been founded by his recently deceased father, Billy Graham, the revered evangelist often called America’s Pastor. So Franklin fired back at the magazine with a powerful riposte to his millions of social-media followers:
I hadn’t joint who my father @BillyGraham voted for in 2016 but because of @CTMagazine’s article, I felt it necessary share now. My father knew [Trump], believed in him & voted for him. He believed Donald J. Trump was the man for this hour in the history for our nation.
That was too much for another Billy Graham descendant, his grandson Aram Tchividjian. In a response to his uncle’s post, Tchividjian wrote with withering sarcasm:
I’ll never forget that day in 2016 when my grandfather @BillyGraham, shrugged off the symptoms of Parkinson’s and hydro Over the weekend, Samaritan’s Purse announced it was building a tent hospital in New York City’s Central Park in response to the COVID-19 crisis. In a Twitter video, CEO Franklin Graham put out a call for Christian doctors, nurses, paramedics, or other medical professionals to perform in his privately run tent hospital. The highly public change position has prompted wariness among LGBTQ advocates and government officials. Graham’s history of demonization of the LGBTQ community, along with several other marginalized groups, contradicts his call to help the citizens of New York City. New York Declare Senator Brad Hoylman called on Recent York City to require any medical provider intending to provide services in a place of public accommodation to sign an deal and acknowledgment connected to non-discrimination. “We can’t let a pandemic change New York’s values,” Hoylman said in a declaration. “New York Capital must require every doctor or volunteer working at Graham’s Central Park field hospital—along with anyone providing medical services in a place of public accommodation—to sign a declaration affirming their pledge to following Modern York City’s Human Rights Law.” Graham responded to Sen. Hoylman