Someone needs to explain to Franklin Graham, president of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and spawn of Billy, what a metaphor is.
Franklin is claiming there’s a conspiracy afoot — Marvel Comics is trying to brainwash young people into accepting the “destructive” homosexual lifestyle by revealing that Iceman, AKA Bobby Drake, one of the original X-Men, is gay.
We hate to break it to you, Franklin, but the X-Men universe has been flamingly gay long before Iceman. A bunch of misunderstood societal outcasts fighting for a foothold of acceptance (and to save the world, naturally)? Does Franklin need it spelled out any clearer?
‘This is another attempt to indoctrinate our young people to accept this destructive lifestyle,” Graham posted on Facebook on Wednesday.
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Perhaps he hasn’t seen the Bryan Singer-helmed films. The director himself hasn’t been shy to point out the X-Men gay connection. When asked if “X-Men and X-Men 2 represent your identities as a Jew living in America and as a gay man,” he responded:
“Well, yeah. That is also a very relevant analogy because where certain races, even a Jewish boy or a Jewish girl, will be born into a Jewish family, or a Jewish community sometimes, or an African American or whatever minority in any given area, a gay kid doesn’t discover he or she is gay until around puberty. And their parents aren’t gay necessarily, and their classmates aren’t, and they feel truly alone in the world and have to find, sometimes never find, a way to live. And what better way [to explore it] than in a giant, action, summer event movie!”
Still, we’re happy to see gay mutants in the X-Men universe. Here’s hoping the storyline makes its way into the film franchise.
Here’s how Iceman was outed in All New X-Men No. 40:
Actor Shawn Ashmore, who plays Iceman/Bobby in the films, Tweeted a his approval:
Congrats Bobby! 🙂 https://t.co/yiWcZTq1h4
— Shawn R Ashmore (@ShawnRAshmore) April 21, 2015
Eric Ziegler
Now that he’s finished with the drugs, alcoholic binges and fornication he can now sit in judgment of others. What a swell guy.
AtticusBennett
newsflash – ignorant bigot says something bigoted and ignorant and continues to show that his followers will bury their kids rather than walk them down the aisle in a nice suit.
Cagnazzo82
Only the dumb spout ignorant opinions as concrete facts.
The only sad aspect of this is that this idiot is leading other idiots astray and making a tax-free killing off of it.
Lee Bryan
He prefers to have the churches do all the brainwashing.
Josh John Brimble
1 gay x men cant brainwash a whole generation of kids
Jarret Reed
Xmen always had a gay connotation. Coming out. A virus that targets only mutants. Outcasts harassed by society. It’s being gay with out the sex. Just saying.
Barry Shatswell
And he’s not brainwashing people into giving him their hard-earned money and selling them a guaranteed afterlife? Oh puh-leeze. What a dick.
Jacob Thompson
First of all, the entire Xmen are predicated on a belief in evolution. Second of all, why do Religious people get so agitated by what imaginary people do or don’t do? Oh, I answered my own question.
Patrick Laney
He is gay.
Tony Lopez
girl bye
TomMc
The Christian fundamentalist-types said the same kinda stuff about the Batman TV show decades ago. Despite being younger then, we still all knew that it wasn’t Batman who ‘turned us gay’…
It was Robin.
polarisfashion
@Jarret Reed: They alluded to that connection in the movie X-Men 2. One of Bobby’s parents asks him if he could try to stop being a mutant.
Lawrence Gisonda
His father was a bigot and anti-Semitic. No surprise that the son has taken up the last people-bashing crusade. Jesus told him to…
Roger Honeycutt
Comic book verses fairy tail.
Ken Nolan
I don’t believe his father would approve of Franklin’s comments.
Craig Marker
Brainwashing ?! LOL!
Michael Haynes
I hate to break it to him but in reality X-Men echo the Gay Community and how Normals want to rid their planet of the mutants. Just like teh religious right want to rid the planet of the LGBT Community.
Daniel Alvarado
graham needs to shut up and come out of the closet
Ron English
Ummm only one way he’d know they are Gay.
James Kelley
My family brainwashed me into Christianity from my first breath….fair is fair I guess..
Dan J Feltman
Graham is the only one here that is brain washing people into his cult
Chris Duffy
That’s $1.2 million dollar a year salary Franklin Graham? Rich…like Jesus was. You must admit,he does know a thing or two about brainwashing.
Jeffrey York
What the hell do you call what he does?
Cutler Richardson
He would know all about brainwashing.
Mark Alan McRoberts
FU
jwtraveler
yeah, so what?
Luis H. Lopez
Ridiculous ! Some children like myself born gay queer bi or transgender straight no one turns anyone you are born the way you are!!!
DonovanS28
ehhhh but he’s been a womanizer the entire time…… sleeping with everyone. It would be more interesting if they just introduced another character who is gay instead of changing a current one.
Errol Semple
Look who is talking about brainwashing.
Realitycheck
Only in america we have these kind of idiots……..
I am surprise Graham doesn’t attack Disney the parent company of Marvel…..
Kudos to DC and Marvel and all comic books companies that write gay characters in their stories.
Tristram Goncalves
Like brainwashing them with the drivel in the bible is less heinous!
Jonny B. Mitchell
Lol
Steve Rosenberger
Oh, Frankâ??you’re just jealous! All you’ve got is Zombie Jesus.
Rick Smith
And Graham isn’t brainwashing kids with his script?
FireFox98
@DonovanS28 they actually have a pretty good way around that in the following pages, if you can find them online somewhere 🙂
William Clements
As opposed to brainwashing kids with a gazillion straight characters.
Avery Alvarez
Isn’t it funny that he mentions brainwashing children when that is organized religion’s well-known, well-documented MO.
They tell young innocent children that some mean old grandfather figure is always watching them 24/7 – when they go to the bathroom, when they’re alone in their beds at night. And that this grandfather figure is always judging them, and cant’ wait to burn their flesh of their bodies for eternity if they ever step out of line
That is emotional, psychological, and in some cases physical abuse.