In case you were wondering, this is what a bigot looks like - so now you know! The sad thing is, this amendment has nothing to do with redefining marriage yet again. North Carolina law already bans same-sex marriage. This law basically strips all legal protections from unmarried couples. You know.. all the Millennials today who don't want to get married since its a failed institution. Unfortunately, this amendment will strip away health insurance from children in unmarried households, and eliminate protections from domestic violence victims if they are not married to their attacker. You see, this is the peak of what Christianity has come to in America - FAR FROM ITS ROOTS! The dwindling Christian obsession with hating on gay people has come to the point where its illegal tax-exempt political meddling is nothing more than a matter of social posturing, bullying the gay community legislatively, trying to hold on to some aspect of pop culture, trying to somehow self-reinforce its purported relevance in a modern society. This law is simply a mean-spirited slap in the faces of gay people, they just want to make sure we know that they still hate us, even if the rest of America doesn't, anymore. Unfortunately, while caught up in this bigoted act of hate, the REAL VICTIMS of this amendment are the CHILDREN OF UNMARRIED HOUSEHOLDS. To the church, that's OK - children are collateral damage! At age 93, Billy Graham is coming out as a bigot, as a hater, as an old person suffering from dementia - because surely he doesn't think this is how to love thy neighbor.
So sad. I really thought that guy was dead. Looking back at the way he ran things to the way his son is now running things, the secret conspiracy-theorist in me wonders if these words weren't written by the younger and attributed to the older.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you 100%. That was actually the first though that entered my mind... for someone so passionate about "saving souls" or bringing people to know Christ, you would think that someone like that wouldn't sweat the small stuff (ie. care if someone is gay or straight as if it has a huge impact on their save-ability), etc.
DeleteIt would not surprise me if its all Frankie's doing - him convincing his father in his old age to do this as if it was some kinda of "Christian emergency". Maybe Billy did it reluctantly, we will never know - but its unfortunately that Frankie wont have to bear the brunt. So selfish (if he did that) to nonchalantly smear his fathers name in his last days for some political clout.
People are going to remember this when they think of Billy Graham. Sure theyll think of all the other stuff he did too, but theyll think of him as someone who did a lot of good stuff then in the end, played some dirty hands.
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So true. When Fred Shuttlesworth passed away, all I could remember were his ads encouraging Ohioans to vote FOR the ban on same-sex marriage. It overshadowed so much of the truly great and important work he did.
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