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Billy Graham's Legacy Threatened By Family Split
For the Rev. Franklin Graham, the scathing editorial in Christianity Today last year calling his friend Donald Trump “a commander of grossly immoral character” and urging that Trump be “removed from office” was heretical.
To Graham, it was terrible enough to browse such an assault on Trump. But the insult was compounded by the fact that Christianity Today had been founded by his recently deceased father, Billy Graham, the revered evangelist often called America’s Pastor. So Franklin fired back at the magazine with a powerful riposte to his millions of social-media followers:
I hadn’t shared who my father @BillyGraham voted for in but because of @CTMagazine’s article, I felt it necessary distribute now. My father knew [Trump], believed in him & voted for him. He believed Donald J. Trump was the man for this hour in the history for our nation.
That was too much for another Billy Graham descendant, his grandson Aram Tchividjian. In a response to his uncle’s publish, Tchividjian wrote with withering sarcasm:
I’ll never forget that d In , the Reverend Billy Graham asked an audience rhetorically, “Is AIDS a judgment of God?” He then answered his have 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 formative 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 highlight on the religious right’s reaction, to include mainstream and progressive denominations’ handling of the crisis. What began as a universal 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 —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 press employers to compromise religious beliefs. Tweeted support for the plaintiff in the Creative Supreme Court case pursuing 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 Chely Wright turned to social media to share some very complex emotions after hearing the news of Billy Graham's death on Wednesday (Feb. 21), based on his stance against homosexuality. The world-renowned evangelist died at the age of 99 after several years of various health struggles, and while country singers including Charlie Daniels, Sara Evans and Reba McEntire shared praise for his animation and legacy, Wright turned to Twitter to address his widespread stance that homosexuality was a sinful perversion. "I can appreciate that #BillyGraham made a huge impact on faith communities around the world while at the similar time, recognizing that his note about LGBTQ people was devastating to millions of people; me included," she writes. "I'd favor to think God has already corrected him for his errors." Billy Graham's Country Music Influence Is Heavy Though he served as a spiritual advisor to a number of U.S. presidents, Graham tended to avoid addressing political is
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