Noted holy roller, evangelist Franklin Graham, posted a bizarre thank you to Donald Trump via Facebook for not flying the Pride flag at US embassies. The reason: Graham claims the flag offends Christians.
“I want to thank President Donald J. Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for making the decision not to fly the gay flag over our embassies during June in recognition of gay pride month,” Graham said in his post. “That is the right decision. The only flag that should fly over our embassies is the flag of the United States of America. The gay pride flag is offensive to Christians and millions of people of other faiths, not only in this country but around the world. The U.S. flag represents our nation—everyone—regardless of race, religion, or sexual orientation.”
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Trump’s refusal to fly the flag reverses an Obama-era policy that allowed embassies to fly the Pride flag alongside the American Flag during the month of June. The Trump administration did not make an official announcement regarding the reversal; rather foreign embassies in Israel, Germany and elsewhere all reported that the flag had been banned via the State Department.
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Franklin Graham has a long history of anti-queer rhetoric. Last month, he attacked openly gay Democratic Presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg, claiming the Indiana mayor faced “eternal damnation.”
Diplomat-G
And several embassies few it anyway… Don’t you feel silly….
James
They’re flying it anyway. The hate trump and especially chrixtian trash graham cracker.
HenryCameron
Articles claiming that embassies are displaying the Pride flag in spite of a ban by Trump are a perfect example of fake news, whether they are written from ignorance or from a deliberate intention to misinform and mislead. Ambassadors serve at the pleasure of the President, so they wouldn’t be rubbing Trump’s nose in it if he had actually banned the Pride flag completely or if he had banned the commemoration of Pride by embassies. In fact, all he did was deny requests to have the Pride flag fly on the the official embassy flagpole with the American flag. Objectively, that decision is sound, because the US flag should be the only one flown there. Flying banners of various interest groups from the official mast is divisive and controversial as this article evidences. The practice should never have started and is best ended.
Cam
@HenryCameron
Except you’re lying. Unless of course Seoul South Korea, India, and Chile aren’t real embassies.
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
Ever notice the right wing nutbags who scream the loudest about our depravity and “immoral behavior” ALWAYS seem to be embroiled in said sexual scandal. This vile abhorrent smcubag is just about due for his to errupt….
Jared MacBride
Sleazy Franklin, sleazy Rev. Billy and a sleazy religion.
Mack
As I said in an earlier post, if you believe that Donald Trump was sincere in his Pride Tweet, please remove your head from your backside. He will do NOTHING for the LGBTQ community. He’s too busy pandering to the Evangelicals because they really believe an adulterer, liar and a cheat.
Rocinante
This is one man I would gladly gut from his balls to the black hole where his heart would be if he were human, if I wouldn’t spend the rest of my life in prison. Wouldn’t cause me any more distress than smashing a roach.
okiloki
Meanwhile a NYT article just wrote that the evangelical churches have collectively been covering up child molesting ministers and priests for decades now. The whole excuse of protecting their children from the sinful gays while, in reality, it’s not a big deal to them if their own priests and fellow evangelicals are child abusers.
Dimples girl
Being Hipocritical in the name of the Lord.. It seems to be the so-called Evangelical Christians can tolerate adultery,lying racist comments etc. But if a person wants to love who they choose to- they are sinners! Frankly Franklin you need to dry up and blow away.
WindsorOntario
Good thing I’m not in charge.
I’d tar & feather Trump, Pence & Sumo Sarah then force them to cluck and chickenwalk the whole parade route while we sit back and laugh at them.