Billy Graham Is Not an Anti-Gay Bigot | HuffPost Relign

Contents:

• BILLY GRAHAM IS NOT AN ANTI-GAY BIGOT
• BILLY GRAHAM’S FAL MSAGE: ATHEIST HATRED, GAY ACTIVISTS ARE TOLERANT AND THE LEFTIST RENTMENT
• IS LDSEY GRAHAM GAY? THE TTH ABOUT HIS S*XUAL ORIENTATN EXPOSED!
• BILLY GRAHAM BACKS NC ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE AMENDMENT
• FRANKL GRAHAM: PUT IS BETTER ON GAY ISSU THAN OBAMA

BILLY GRAHAM IS NOT AN ANTI-GAY BIGOT

For many lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer people, however, Graham was a csar agast them, one whose efforts shaped the relig right to an anti-LGBTQ polil 1950, Graham began the weekly "Hour of Decisn" rad program broadst on more than 700 statns around the world. "Graham himself had few specific words on LGBTQ people, at least when pared to the rt of his expansive non, but his disapproval of homosexualy was unequivol. “We traffic homosexualy at the peril of our spirual welfare.

” This was after Graham had claimed homosexualy to be a “sister form of perversn” that was ntributg to the y of civilizatn, acrdg to the book “Mart Luther Kg Jr., Homosexualy, and the Early Gay Rights Movement” by Michael G. Now spearhead by his son Frankl Graham, has provid a platform for vilent homophobia and support for anti-LGBTQ the anizatn's webse, Frankl Graham has claimed Satan is behd LGBTQ rights and activism, has said there is “no place for promise” on same-sex marriage and has praised Rsian lears who he said have "stood steadfastly agast the risg homosexual agenda their untry. "Garrard Conley, the thor of “Boy Erased, ” a memoir which he reunts his experienc nversn therapy Arkansas, said Graham’s rhetoric was equently employed the lurgy he enuntered and the mp where he was told he uld be “cured” of homosexualy.

“Graham lled homosexualy 'a sister form of perversn, ' and never appears to have changed his thoughts on the matter. The Pew Rearch Center shared last year that the majory of people who approved of homosexual liftyl didn’t nsir relign important their daily liv. And holdg to God’s revealed tth His Word ncerng homosexualy is even more dangero, ” Becket Cook wrote his book, A Change of Affectn: A Gay Man’s Incredible Story of Remptn.

BILLY GRAHAM’S FAL MSAGE: ATHEIST HATRED, GAY ACTIVISTS ARE TOLERANT AND THE LEFTIST RENTMENT

“If you believe that homosexualy is a s, you are immediately labeled a bigot or homophobic. Homosexualy is plited, but ’s not a gray area.

IS LDSEY GRAHAM GAY? THE TTH ABOUT HIS S*XUAL ORIENTATN EXPOSED!

Cook remds his rears, there are gay pri paras but not gossip pri paras. “Homosexual orientatn affects the whole person: the md, will, emotn and body, ” he wr.

“The nscienc of today’s Christians are beg rpted by the opprsive cultural i and the extreme social prsure surroundg the issue of homosexualy, but we know that the law of the Lord is wrten on our hearts (Jeremiah 31:31-33) and though we may succeed mutg our nscience, the Word of God is eternal, ” Cook said. There are no exceptns suggted, such as homosexual partnerships. From Genis on, the Bible prais the marriage of a man and a woman, but speaks only negatively of homosexual behavr whenever is mentned.

BILLY GRAHAM BACKS NC ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE AMENDMENT

The New Ttament agre, listg “homosexual offenrs” among a list of people who “will not her the kgdom of God” unls they are cleansed through Christ (1 Corthians 6:9-11). However, is important to note that the Bible speaks only of homosexual behavr (which would clu lt—choosg to fantasize about behavr), not unchosen feelgs. Sometim is said that the Bible do not rerd any words of J about homosexualy, and therefore mt be acceptable to God.

So, this sense, J did have somethg to say about homosexual partnerships. Up until this pot, the Nixon bacle was arguably Billy's only polil misstep, but wh each new anti-gay statement put out by BGEA his legacy is beg is perhaps sadst about all of this is that I would not object if Billy Graham wanted to make polil terventns per se, the same huy that he veloped over s of gettg to know the breadth of Christiany this untry as well as the vibrant diversy of cultural tradns around the world, and the generosy of spir that is apparent prev statements he has ma late his life that seemed to imply open-mdns, a valug of other perspectiv and a willgns to adm he might be wrong. Print Tmp himself said was a “great honor” to be lled the most pro-gay print ever, and the First Lady publicly endorsed gay and lbian equaly.

In the years prr, an creasgly nfint gay liberatn movement had succsfully passed nondiscrimatn ordanc across the untry. While ncerns about the ordance’s lack of relig liberty protectns buoyed her effort, Bryant’s rhetoric about the threat gay people ostensibly posed to children was the mpaign’s lastg legacy.

FRANKL GRAHAM: PUT IS BETTER ON GAY ISSU THAN OBAMA

While praisg her urage and ldg her for “emphasizg that God lov the homosexual, ” Graham also suggted that he would not have said “some thgs she and her associat said … the same way. Graham add that, while he saw his votn as foced on preachg the gospel, he “was also fearful that her mpaign might galvanize and brg out to the open homosexualy throughout the untry, so that homosexuals would end up a stronger posn.

As Ta Fetner argu How the Relig Right Shaped Lbian and Gay Activism, Bryant and Briggs advertently revigorated what had been an creasgly dormant movement, givg a more ant and opposnal edge than had prevly. Activists personalized the issue for the first time: Openly gay polician Harvey Milk enuraged people to e out of the closet to their iends and neighbors, rhapg public opn about the challeng they faced. Wrten by psychologist Pl Cameron, they emphasized, among other thgs, that gay men gt fel matter their sexual practic.

The televisn mpaign tentnally prented the most flamboyant, non-bourgeois pictns of gay pri paras—ostensibly to show the “realy” of the LGBT movement, but effect to generate fear. Some 16 years later, California voters reenacted a nearly intil pattern when—after a tumultuo fight—they simultaneoly prohibed gay marriage wh Proposn 8 and ma Barack Obama print. Amendment 2’s drafters sisted that s text required no moral judgment about homosexualy.