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.
“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.
Graham, who heads the charity Samaritan’s Purse, lead a crusade in Toronto in 2014 that drew 40,000 people.
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.
Liberals love to hate on the Christian community because it stands for personal agency and responsibility, it also allows for free speech. The texts from the Bible used to teach that the gay lifestyle is (one) of many things we cannot do with our body. These texts are old, very old, as in thousands of years old. We cannot cause harm to others, or ourselves. The greatest call to Followers of Christ is to love! Love is not attached to only believers, but to all mankind. This is just too easy, the public deaths of women caught in supposed adultery,… Read more »
Kinda like the more than 34000 black churches from 15 denominations, representing 15.7 million African Americans, have pulled away from the Presbyterian Church because of it’s liberal views on gay marriage? Let’s look at the Muslim community that in some cultured will KILL gays? How come ya’ll never address one of the fastest growing religions and their views of homosexuality. Easier to go after this guy, yes? Preach the same crap to the same choir, right? And don’t plan any visits to Yemen, Iran, Iraq, Nigeria, saudi Arabia, Somali … You could be killed for simply being gay. There are… Read more »
Graham contends that he is Christian..being a bigot and a homophobic is not Christlike. Loving your neighbor as yourself is being Christlike. What Muslims do or do not do is not my concern because I am not Gay and I am not Muslim.
He denounces a lifestyle that goes against his beliefs. I love my son’s and daughter which doesn’t mean I have to accept much less celebrate choices they may make. Deborah, if we used the same basis you use toward this man, you too are a hater and a bigot.
In so far as what Muslims do … Why wouldn’t you care?
He denounces a lifestyle that goes against his beliefs. I love my son’s and daughter which doesn’t mean I have to accept much less celebrate choices they may make. Deborah, if we used the same basis you use toward this man, you too are a hater and a bigot.
In so far as what Muslims do … Why wouldn’t you care?