It can’t be easy being Franklin Graham.
Earlier this month, the antigay Evangelist preacher announced he was closing all his Wells Fargo bank accounts after learning the company was pro-gay. He then moved his coffers into the vaults of North Carolina-based BB&T, only to learn that it, too, was pro-gay. Oops.
(In theory, Graham is now also going to have to give up drinking Coke products, eating Ben & Jerry’s, flying Delta, watching Netflix, shopping at Sears, or using Tide detergent to wash his clothes since all of those companies voiced their support of SCOTUS’ ruling on marriage equality last week.)
Now, Billy’s elder, idiot son is really pissed. Again.
How about we take this to the next level?
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When the White House put a rainbow filter over its Facebook picture after SCOTUS’ historic ruling on Friday, Graham went into a veritable orgy of vitriol. In fact, he was so upset that he forgot how to use proper subject verb agreement when ranting on his Facebook wall.
First, he called the picture “outrageous,” then he said it was “a real slap in the face of the millions of Americans who do not support same-sex marriage and whose voice is [sic] being ignored.”
“God is the one who gave the rainbow, and it was associated with His judgement,” he added. “God sent a flood to wipe out the entire world because mankind had become so wicked and violent.”
Then he issued the following warning: “One day God is going to judge sin. All sin. Only those who are found righteous will be able to escape His judgement.”
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The post has over 310,000 “likes,” 120,000 “shares,” and 42,000 comments.
Vickie Lockhart wrote, in all caps: “WITH THE CURRENT GENERATION UNABLE TO COLLECTIVELY FIGURE OUT HOW TO PROPERLY OPERATE UNDERWEAR… AND NOW WANTING TO PUT THEIR PRIVATES IN A HOLE ONLY POOPOO COMES OUT OF AND THEN LICK IT OFF… ASK YOUR DAD IF PERHAPS SOMEHOW WE HAVE FAILING AS PARENTS IN AMERICA.”
Stephanie Torres added, “My problem here is not with gays…in fact, I have several very close friends who are! My problem however is with the president taking it upon himself to DISRESPECT those who are not in agreement with this decision! … Asinine jerk!”
And Tina Henry said: “The Lord must be sobbing for this earth. hate the sin love the sinners. All have sinned. Im sorry this world is so screwed up Lord.”
Colleen Foughty Wick confessed that she was “horrified” by the White House’s rainbow filter. Meanwhile, Crystal Simmons suggested someone “blow [the] capital house up.” And Kayla Waterman wrote, “Gays are disgusting!”
Rob Riley‘s comment that takes the top prize when he calmly corrected Graham’s notion that rainbows are created by God as a way of sharing his divine judgement:
“The rainbow is created due to the refraction of light through the water drops,” Riley wrote.
Amen.
David Weber
any thing that upsets this fucker is fine with me
Stephen Meeks
Cry me a river
Stephen Meeks
And just for the record, a rainbow is an optical phenomenon caused by reflection, refraction, and dispersion of light in water resulting in a spectrum of light. It has nothing to do with your god’s judgement.
Jim McCoy
I bet he bends over at glory holes and in bath houses.
Ladbrook
This fool’s father was a decent man, although flawed, as we all are. How shameful it is that Billy’s son dedicates his professional life to preaching hate and spreading ignorance.
In all honesty, his rhetoric is oddly reminiscent of what we used to hear from the Klan during integration. He has all but destroyed his father’s legacy.
Dwight G Grogan
Yet, he kisses the Palin’s asses, even the Biblical Whore Bristol.
Ron King
Big improvement for the money grubbing fool.
Desert Boy
Pappa Graham Nixon-worshiping, anti-Semite and the brat is a vicious homophobe. What a fucked up family.
Voltaire Erasmus
He’ll be judged alright…
Ladbrook
@Jim McCoy: A funny image but probably not. He strikes me more as a Jimmy Swaggart kind of sinner. I won’t be surprised if we discover a few prostitutes, a long-time mistress, and a couple of out-of-wedlock kids at some point… exposed because some IRS accountant will notice a history of questionable payouts in their 501c filings. His rhetoric has ‘sexual hypocrisy’ written all over it.
Ogre Magi
@Ladbrook: WTF why are you standing up for the Hillbilly Pope?
Glücklich
Jesus Fucking Christ. Of all the problems around the world – hell, just in our country – Fucklin Graham wants to get vitriolic about a rainbow filter over Feltchbook avatars.
Misplaced priorities like his and those of seemingly all of the current crop of Republican presidential candidates’ are waaay more troubling than “‘WANTING TO PUT [my] PRIVATES IN A HOLE ONLY POOPOO COMES OUT OF AND THEN LICK IT OFF…'” *I* don’t want to put my privates in Feltchbook poster Vickie Lockhart’s mouth.
And I’m no DHS employee but the suggestion to “‘blow [the] capital house up'” is more than a little problematic, though I suspect the poster is probably a “birther” and therefore too stupid to be considered a threat.
Paul Galero-Phillips
I think he was shocked to hear millions of people now support LGBT.. Guess what loser.. They do
Stephen Ward
He didn’t appear to have a problem with Patricia Cornwell writing his mother’s biography in 1997. Patricia Cornwell is a gifted novelist who is married to Staci Gruber who is a professor of psychiatry at Harvard. Did he return the proceeds from the sale of the book when he learned Ms. Cornwell is a lesbian?
Jerry Roland
Smoke and mirrors. Snake oil.
Chris
@Glücklich: “JFC” — I have not heard that since my college days many decades ago. To quote singer from that era, “Thanks for the memories.” 🙂
BTW, Amen to the rest of your rant.
Dominic Mancuso
Glücklich
@Chris:
That comes out of my mouth at work at least twice a day.
Robert D. Dittbenner
Epic melt down. Great maybe it will cause a coronary
Samuel Jaxsin
What kind of dark, unenlightened person doesn’t love rainbows?
Michael Finnegan
Dave Basora
For a so called “man of God” this moron can’t get anything right. According to the bible, the rainbow was created after the water from the great flood evaporated. It was to signify gods promise to Noah that he wouldn’t destroy the world in such a manner again.
Really Frankie, if you’re going to do this at least get the facts of the book to which you’re supposedly dedicated right
David Sutton
Good!
Lotta Yadayada
If they melted aren’t they witches….?
Greg Wallin
â??One day God is going to judge sin. All sin. Only those who are found righteous will be able to escape His judgement.â?
Dude, God has already judged sin. Sin will not be allowed in the eternity.
His children, on the other hand.. that’s a different story. And if you really read the bible (as opposed to looking for verses to support your infantile rants) you’d be surprised just what will happen during the Judgement.
God’s gonna look at you, look at His son, then back at you,and say, “what will it be? Eternity or Death?”
D Perris Floyd-Bloxsom
And we care that him & his so-called followers had an #epicmeltdown, because why….?? GEESH…. HE & his followers need to GET A GRIP…. GET OVER IT…. AND SHUT THE HELL UP ALREADY!!!!
John Andrew K. Carver
My father came to accept me when he heard an interview with Billy Graham. Graham was asked what he’d do if his son were gay. He responded that he would love him even more.
Luis H. Lopez
Get off Facebook if your an anti gay bigot !! A gay man invented the Computer and a gay man helped found Facebook you stupid homophobes!!
David Red
Asshat
misterhollywood
There is nothing Christian about his message. The dude is a total nutbag and likely repressed gay man. Look closely the next time you are on Craig’s List – he probably has a profile. I bet he wears rainbow underwear. Freak
Chris L. Reynolds
What the Hell? Wasn’t the Rainbow a promise to Noah from God that there be no more floods?So?what’s the issue?what cry babies!
Kathukid
If there was a God, and he is so opposed to same-sex weddings, then why does he allow them to take place all over the world? Maybe he is punishing Christians for being so hateful and they just haven’t figured it out yet.
Rodney Taylor
I hope he isn’t planning on moving to Canada…we don’t want him
Milk
@Rodney Taylor: Hence we have to gay up our nation to repel these nutzies. It’s good to know all the banks in Canada were sponsored of the Toronto pride event.
Mark Siegel
it wasn’t enough of a meltdown if he’s still here
darian
Is it bad I laughed until I about damn neared cried. She can just stay mad with her mad ass.
Mack
Shouldn’t he be out tending to his flock or whatever he calls those dimwits?
Alfredo
God did not destroy enough. He left the American Seccesionist states. For Graham’s information, gays are also “God’s creeatures. As long as you produce us, we survive!
BlueDude
@Kathukid: That’s THE BEST explanation I’ve heard yet! My notion is a New Cleansing of the Temple. Most of Christendom has gone from bad to worse for 2000 years; let’s start over, stressing the LOVE this time.
Cathy Thompson
He couldn’t melt-down fast enough for me. I liken him to the wicked witch in the Wizard of Oz … “I’m melting, I’m melting …!!!!”
aliengod
Wow! Vickie Lockhart knows all about ATM. You go girl. Not just gay porn, kinky gay porn.
Curty
Someone should tell him he could always move to some parts of Europe, south American and Africa and middle east.
billeetee
Somehow I find myself hoping that all of these people from Franklin the Frightening down the foundation his followers will collectively bite themselves and die slowly and very painfully from Hydrophobia!
David Pickersgill
I feel for them all….. Equality is a real bitch when all your life you’ve tried to avoid it
Patrick Samonte
Gaylan Wommack
Yea I dont Remember His Father being close mind and homophobic
Finrod
The subject is “voice”, so “is” is correct.
Gus Anderson
Where did this Franklin Graham idiot come from and more importantly, when he going back?
Robert Hillyer
Graham. Crackers.
River Run
lol.. poor guy.. out of step with the times… berhaps he should go back the the rotary dial phone.
BriBri
Get ready for the rapture Reverend Graham and make sure your skidmarks are bleached.
Raymond59
Everything FG”S preaches is about hate. Christ was an outcast in his time and shunned by the religious leaders. Imagine if he walked the earth today. All of his teaching centers around love and acceptance, never leaving out anyone. FG is not a man of God, but only teaches and preaches his own agenda. If we love one another we exemplify God. FG is a lost sole and means nothing!!
Caleb Abrams
Haaaaa
Caleb Abrams
I say it with aggression
gaym50ish
It’s pretty hard to make a case that you “love the sinner” when you’re doing everything in your power to deny him basic rights that everyone else has — even other sinners!
o.codone
As a gay man in good standing with a current, validated gay card it is my duty to be as petty, insulting and provocative towards anyone who disagrees with the gay agenda, especially if they are Christians. I’m going to call these people every name I can think of, I’m gonna run them into the ground and even put them out of business. No one who disagrees with the gay thought police will survive. No one.
This is why society will continue to hate strident, agenda driven, extremist gay politics and the advocates thereof. Until gays make an effort to put the agenda out there in a way that it can be discussed instead of engaging in name calling hatred then gays will remain their own worst enemy.
1EqualityUSA
I refuse to lie about my true self to others, in order to make them feel more comfortable with me. This would be an artificial relationship. Have the courage to be honest. Lies take advantage of an inherent trust we have with one another. Franklin Graham is missing potential hearts. He’s tangled in the world, indicative of a spiritual station that is lesser. Word is choked by thorns, the cares of the world. He is shutting the door in our faces, indicative of human endeavor. This is Mr. Graham’s spiritual onus.
SeeingAll
Franklin Graham has always seemed like a mean-natured vicious thing.
SeeingAll
@o.codone: To a great extent you’re right about certain gay wannabe-tyrants dealing with others with different opinions. But there still are some Christian leaders who really ARE contemptible and Franklin Graham is one of them.
rmissey
Wonder if anyone has a direct link to the Crystal Simmons “blow [the] capital house up” comment. I’m sure a Secret Service visit would make her day.