Franklin Graham: I Love Gays So Much I Want To Prevent Them From An Eternity In Hell
Please don’t think that Franklin Graham is anti-gay. He loves the gays. It’s just that he wants them to repent so they don’t spend eternity burning in hell. As Sean Illing writes at Salon:
In a recent interview about his decision to move his ministry banks accounts (which reportedly total over $100 million) from Wells Fargo, Graham remarked: “I hear so many arguments that we need to love the gays and lesbians. Of course we love them. And we should love them enough to warn them that if they don’t repent and turn from their sin and receive Christ, they will spend eternity in hell.”
Here we have the moral confusion at the heart of the evangelical movement perfectly expressed. Graham, like so many of his ilk, insists that he’s not full of hate, that he actually loves gay people. That’s bullshit. It’s obscene to say you love someone right before condemning him or her to an eternity of hell. This is the move too many Christians try to make in moral discourse today: They say it’s God’s business to judge, but they condemn; they say they hate sin but love the sinner, but they embrace laws that demean and punish those who don’t share their values; Graham’s virulent anti-gay rhetoric is a particularly disgusting example of this.
It’s no accident that Graham uses words like “lifestyle” and “choice” when denouncing homosexuals. He wants you to think he’s attacking gay people for what they do rather than for who they are, but that’s a ruse, because that’s exactly what he’s doing. Dismissing homosexuality as a choice makes it easier to judge and discriminate against, and it ignores the simple truth that gay people no more chose to be gay than I choose to be right-handed. But Graham doesn’t want to deal with this truth, because it runs counter to his religious ideology.
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dennis richardson November 4th, 2015 at 01:13
George Patton once expressed his disappointment in the lack of distinguishing features in the face of Beadle Smith. That’s what I think of Alan Colmes. Is there anything between Alan Colmes ears. His expressionless face with no features of distinction makes me think that “the lights are on but nobody is at home”. Does he have complex thoughts occasionally. Being Jewish does he have any sense of ultimate reality. Somebody ask him about the stupendously large Universe, I want to hear what he says. Those that have no perception of humanity’s future is probably because they know they will have no part of it.
Nhlanhla April 2nd, 2016 at 00:59
It’s a fallacy to assume that every Christian is interested in eternity. I am a Christian and I do believe that eternal life exist. I’m just not interested in it. It would be great if we were presented with a third option. I don’t understand as to why I would chose for my soul to be roaming around after my physical death. Complete death would be nice.