Antigay preacher Franklin Graham is set to appear at a “Festival of Hope” event in Vancouver but not all religious leaders in the Canadian city are pleased by this fact.
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“Rev. Graham is a polarizing figure…His ungracious and bigoted remarks have the potential to generate serious negative impact on the Christian witness in Vancouver,” reads a statement signed by five Catholic and Evangelical leaders, reports the Vancouver Sun.
“We…denounce the frequent incendiary and intolerant statements made by Rev. Graham, which he unapologetically reiterates,” the letter continues, which was signed by Marjeta Bobnar of the Catholic archdiocese, City in Focus president Tom Cooper, Tenth Church pastor Ken Shigematsu, Calvary Baptist pastor Tim Dickau and First Baptist pastor Tim Kuepfer.
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Graham, who heads the charity Samaritan’s Purse, lead a crusade in Toronto in 2014 that drew 40,000 people.
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After the Toronto event, Samaritan’s Purse terminated a Canadian volunteer because she refused to sign a statement opposing abortion and same-sex marriage.
Graham has said that gay people must repent or spend eternity in hell and has called gay Christians “the enemy.”
He has also supported Donald Trump’s call to ban Muslims from entering the country.
GayEGO
I do not know the underlying reason these Evangelical Leaders are denouncing anti=gay Franklin Graham, which they should. The thought related to Girl Scout cookies sales seems to remind me that there could be a loss of money, but I am glad they are denouncing Graham.
Ukin Blome
Franklin Graham is Crackers.
zipperzone
Well if we’re all going to hell, just think of the great circuit parties that will ensue.
MinnesotaNotNice
Die already, Franklin!
He BGB
It bothers me that Christians have taken it as fact that God and Jesus are Antigay, when to me, it all began centuries ago when the Catholic Church feared gays, birth control and such would decrease their numbers and there’s power in numbers. And women were just incubators. So let’s put some words in God’s and Jesuss mouths. And today’s dumb hateful Christians have fallen for it. I remember when his awful father said that God was punishing gay men who had AIDS back in the 90s. I think he apologized but it reflects how these people think.
Ken A.
Why does everyone get so upset over this dude. He’s trying to make a name for himself among those Christian people and living off his father’s reputation . He hasn’t done anything on his own. Nor does he have the respect his father had across the world.
gaym50ish
Like father, like son. Billy Graham once said that all gays should be castrated. (To be fair, he later apologized, but you know how that goes — the apology is always crafted by the celebrity’s publicist, not the celebrity.)
Jim Guinnessey
Another very evil Baptist preacher who chronically seeks the limelight with his anti-Gay rhetoric. Hell, Graham should remember, is full of the self righteous.
desertboy
His papa, Billy Graham is an anti-Semite and the kid, Franklin Graham is a raving, anti-gay lunatic. Maybe reading the Bible makes you cray-cray after all?
1EqualityUSA
His symptoms show that he is of the world. That’s why he can justify hate.
highestbidder
I thought you meant real evangelical preachers, not Vancouver residents. It’s just not the same in Canada.
dwes09
He BGB says:
“It bothers me that Christians have taken it as fact that God and Jesus are Antigay, when to me, it all began centuries ago when the Catholic Church feared gays, birth control and such would decrease their numbers and there’s power in numbers. And women were just incubators. So let’s put some words in God’s and Jesuss mouths.”
It actually all began millennia ago with the misunderstood interdiction against men fucking each other found in the Torah. Centuries ago the concept of gay people was not really in existence. There was not even a word for homosexual. And birth control other than female methods (pessaries, heb induced miscarriage and so on) is not well documented before the 1800’s.
As for “taking is as fact”, all Gods, including the Christian Gods are based on faith; the antithesis of fact.
SteveDenver
Franklin Graham has never worked a REAL JOB, and yet he’s a multimillionaire… enriched by gullible fools who support his brand of fear, hatred and superstition.
Transiteer
Graham is the anti-Christ. He preaches hate, bigotry, and promotes violence towards others. Jesus would not hae this piece of lying vermin near him. (Had there been a jesus of course). He’s in this for the same reason his father and all the other evangelicals are: Money. They’re rich and it’s all in the con of working the religion to fleece people. Old game.
Religion is the greatest evil in the world, and always has been. But lately it has moved onto darker waters and shows itself to be what it truely is: a money maker for dupes and airheads who can’t see past the sparkling oratory. I’m sure they’re all convinced when they head back to the trailer, that Christ really would torture and kill people, and he’d have fired them and made them homeless. This is proof, if you needed more, that Evangelism is Evil, and that Christianity is a phoney b*llsh*t story made up by the Romans to create a compliant population (render unto Caesar – in other words – pay your taxes). Graham just has a name, but he’s the same Nazis he’s always been. Why would anyone even invite this turd to a gathering of the pundits of fiction?
Transiteer
Graham is the anti-Christ. He preaches hate, bigotry, and promotes violence towards others. Jesus would not have this piece of lying vermin near him. (Had there been a jesus of course). He’s in this for the same reason his father and all the other evangelicals are: Money. They’re rich and it’s all in the con of working the religion to fleece people. Old game.
Religion is the greatest evil in the world, and always has been. But lately it has moved onto darker waters and shows itself to be what it truely is: a money maker for dupes and airheads who can’t see past the sparkling oratory. I’m sure they’re all convinced when they head back to the trailer, that Christ really would torture and kill people, and he’d have fired them and made them homeless. This is proof, if you needed more, that Evangelism is Evil, and that Christianity is a phoney b*llsh*t story made up by the Romans to create a compliant population (render unto Caesar – in other words – pay your taxes). Graham just has a name, but he’s the same Nazis he’s always been. Why would anyone even invite this turd to a gathering of the pundits of fiction?