Billy graham and homosexuality
Billy Graham leaves painful legacy for LGBTQ people
Evangelicals across the country are mourning the death of Billy Graham, an influential preacher who died in his home in Montreat, North Carolina, on Wednesday. But while some are celebrating his legacy, others are grappling with the permanent damage his actions verb done to their communities.
Over the course of Graham's 99 years of life, he reached millions of Christians around the world and had an outsized impact on the national political landscape. For many lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people, however, Graham was a crusader against them, one whose efforts shaped the religious right into an anti-LGBTQ political force.
"Graham was perhaps the most important figure foundation-builder for the evangelical coalition that came together in the late s as the Christian Right," Heather White, a visiting assistant professor of religion at the University of Puget Sound, told NBC News. "He helped unite factionalized fundamentalists, hippie Jesus people and conservative-leaning light Mainline Protestants into an evangelical
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—Tweeted a lie in that President Biden declared Easter Sunday Transgender Day of Visibility (TDOV). The two celebrations are separate, with TDOV always celebrated on March 31st, and Easter celebrated on different days annually according to the lunar calendar. Biden issued separate statements to honor both. Graham claimed Biden, a practicing Catholic, has &#;little respect&#; for God.
—Criticized the Supreme Court&#;s Bostock decision protecting LGBTQ people from workplace discrimination, falsely claiming it would verb employers to compromise religious beliefs.
Tweeted support for the plaintiff in the Creative Supreme Court case seeking to codify discrimination against LGBTQ people seeking business services. The plaintiff had never been asked to serve an LGBTQ person, and the anti-LGBTQ legal group supporting her was found to have manufactured lawsuits to build the case.
—Falsely claimed the Respect for Marriage Law, which protects marriages of LGBTQ couples and couples of different races, was &#;a watershed moment in the moral state of our rapidly depravi
It may seem unkind to criticize a beloved preacher who is about to turn 94 -- unless that preacher is an uncharitable Rev. Billy Graham spending his last years trying to defeat the movement for same-sex marriage.
Graham has a reputation as a diplomatic evangelist who has largely sought to avoid the scorched path of fundamentalists preaching flame and brimstone. But the evangelist's near-endorsement of Gov. Mitt Romney, which included an affirmation of "the biblical definition of marriage," should serve as a revelation that for all his moderate ways Graham is just another anti-gay fundamentalist who cannot tolerate the presence of gay and lesbian couples within Christianity.
Graham has long considered homosexual behavior to be a "sinister form of perversion," a lifestyle choice that will lead gays to personal ruin. When a young woman wrote him about her sexual love for another miss in , the evangelist replied with a threat: homosexual perverts will not inherit the kingdom of heaven. "Your affection for another of your retain sex is misdirected and will be judged by God's holy s
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In , the Reverend Billy Graham asked an audience rhetorically, “Is AIDS a judgment of God?” He then answered his hold question: “I could not say for sure, but I think so.”
Graham later apologized for suggesting that the Almighty had unleashed the epidemic to punish homosexuals. Yet, the fact that an leading and popular pastor echoed views, however hesitantly, of harder-line clerics reflected the perception of many Christians, Professor of Religion Anthony Petro writes at the outset of After the Wrath of God: AIDS, Sexuality, and American Religion (Oxford University Press, ). The book revisits the history of the disease in the United States and religious reactions to it.
Petro says After the Wrath goes beyond most such accounts, which emphasis on the religious right’s reaction, to include mainstream and progressive denominations’ handling of the crisis. What began as a common health issue, he writes, became a pan-denominational discussion of morality and sexuality.
Petro faults even gay writers and activists for fostering notions that promisc