The preacher, who died today at age 99, wasn't particularly known for his antigay views, but he certaly had them.
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READ THE HORRIBLE ADVICE BILLY GRAHAM GAVE TO A GAY YOUTH
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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.
BILLY GRAHAM IS NOT AN ANTI-GAY BIGOT
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. “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.
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.