Evangelist preacher Franklin Graham has taken aim at San Francisco in his latest Facebook diatribe.
Media reports of shoplifting sprees in the city prompted Graham’s online homily. The CEO of the Gump department store, a downtown fixture, has recently blasted city officials over the local crime situation.
John Chachas paid to publish a full-page open letter in the San Francisco Chronicle to California Governor Gavin Newsom and Mayor London Breed. He blasted them for the rise of homelessness in the city and an increase in thievery from downtown stores.
Graham took this as his starting point to criticize the famously liberal city.
“What John Chachas, CEO of a downtown retailer, is pointing out about the situation in San Francisco is right, but he shouldn’t be so surprised. This has been 60 years or more in the making,” Graham said.
“San Francisco has been sliding downhill since the 1960’s when they welcomed free sex, psychedelic drugs, and the anti-establishment subculture—becoming a haven for immorality.”
Graham perhaps meant to say “free love” rather than “free sex”. Or is Graham suggesting paid-for-sex would be preferable to free sex?
“Haven for immorality”
It’s hard to believe that Graham’s “haven for immorality” comment isn’t a swipe at the fact San Francisco has one of the biggest LGBTQ+ populations of any city in the US. Its distinct gay neighborhood around the Castro is famed worldwide.
“What was confined to a few square blocks around Haight-Ashbury now has grown up and moved into City Hall and infected the entire city like a cancer,” Graham continued, before offering his solution.
“This is a spiritual problem, and the only hope for San Francisco is God. If the mayor, the governor, and other leaders would turn to God, He could give them the wisdom and help they need to bring San Francisco back to life.”
Unsurprisingly, many of Graham’s Facebook followers offered support for his message. However, some people questioned his solution.
“That’s a hard reach to say God is not there… God is everywhere,” said one. “In places like San Francisco, we just need to work for universal healthcare that would help the mentally ill and addicted that are on the streets.”
Franklin Graham is fond of taking swipes at the LGBTQ+ community
Graham has often posted messages attacking the LGBTQ+ community. In 2021, he said that celebrating Pride Month was like celebrating murder. He regarded both homosexuality and murder as similarly sinful.
Later that year, he praised North Carolina’s Lieutenant Governor, Mark Robinson.
Robinson found himself in controversy after a video of a speech he gave in a church went viral. Among other things, Robinson took aim at educators in local schools.
“There is no reason anybody, anywhere in America should be telling any child about transgenderism, homosexuality, or any of that filth.”
Graham praised Robinson for “having the guts to stand up and tell the truth.”
If anyone was still unsure about the reliability of Graham’s moral compass, today he posted a message about Donald Trump.
“The first presidential debate is tonight. A lot of people didn’t vote for Trump because he hurt people’s feelings. Really? I wonder what they think about what’s going on in the White House now…”
Accompanying the message was a photo of a billboard saying, “Trump may have hurt your feelings, but Biden is hurting your family, finance & your freedom.”
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Apparently, Graham isn’t familiar with his own, decades-long history of picking on LGBTQ people.
dbmcvey
This guy is completely immoral.
abfab
A perfect fit. This one and PENCE. Imagine the snow white babies! Soul Twins.
FreddieW
I think Mike Pence is a believer. I’ve never been convinced of that with Franklin Graham.
abfab
We’re all glad you think.
jcool
telling people whom to vote for should result in his church being taxed
FreddieW
Christian ministries tend to operate like an Old Testament dynasty. The father is mildly offensive, and the entitled son is a complete ass and a fake.
Tombear
Wasn’t Franklin and his pool boy and Franklin ‘s wife caught in a 3 way. Because of this wasn’t he canned from Liberty University for immortality? Just wondering? The nerve of this MAGAT!
FreddieW
No. That was Jerry Falwell Jr.
Fahd
These nepobabies in the Christian con industry ahouldn’t be given more publicity. Don’t care what he has to say, even if it does make him look bad.
m
Looking forward to his obituary
Fname Optional Lname
Franklin who?
winemaker
Spot on! San Francisco can do better than what’s going on and has been going on for years that has made it a laughing stock and joke nationwide. Anybody who’s ok with what’s going on here in San Francisco, crime going through the roof without prosecution, exploding homelessness, over 9K so far despite london’ breeds declaration “I’ll solve homelessness in a fiscally prudent and humane manner’, that was just more pandering BULLSHIT to the clueless that believed and voted for this buffoon and as expected, she’s failed miserably, streets reeking like toilets etc either has their heads up their asses or doesn’t live here. I’m gay and a long term resident and come from a pre 1906 earthquake family and if the San Francsico side of the family could see what has become of this one time jewel of California that was at one time clean, run by people with common sense and fiscal prudence who’s solution wasn’t always to jack up the taxes so the issues could be ‘studied’, affordable for middle class wage earners who made up the cities demographics they’d be livid to put things politely. it’s hard to believe people here still vote for clowns who do ZIPPO to improve things, and deal with and solve issues that for the most part go on and on like the Energizer Bunny, give lip service, the finger behind their backs to the residents among other things and laugh all the way to the bank at the fools who they play for fools and treat like walking ATM’s.
James
Homelessness is happening all over America and not just in San Francisco so don’t single out San Francisco. Why don’t you solve the homeless problem. With your anger, I doubt you could do anything except nazi roundups.
Homelessness is a very difficult problem and there is no easy solution unless you want to send people to concentration camps which apparently you do.
James
FRANKLIN GRAHAM IS A TYPE OF GARBAGE.
decrans
winemaker’s comment is basically what I just replied to Kangol about the failures of liberalism’s “It Takes a Village” mindset. Perhaps he can read it from another commenter and extract his head from his rear this decade.
PubisHairus
^ Breaking News: Lonely, terminally ill, terminally online person hates villages.
PubisHairus
Okay, I’m forced to make a retraction: The terminally ill part was just wishful thinking. “FAKE NEWS!”
decrans
Pubis: Was this comment meant for yourself? You breathlessly reply to my every comment now. Are you the new Dave Matthews? Look at that mirror inward, pubes.
PubisHairus
@DIEcrans, I don’t have enough free time in my day to reply to your every comment. You spam Queerty comments every day, all day with your afflicted bullsh*t.
Kangol2
Perhaps you can get your head out of your @ss, decrans, and stop babbling on here incomprehensibly, like Weinmacher!