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Franklin Graham Defends Anti-Gay Pledge for NYC Tent Hospital Workers: We Don\u2019t Want Drunks or Drug Users Either<\/b><\/p>\n

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Evangelist Franklin Graham is defending a requirement that volunteers at a New York City tent hospital run by his charity adhere to an anti-LGBT pledge. <\/a><\/p>\n

Samaritan’s Purse, which operates the hospital for coronavirus patients in Central Park, mandates that healthcare workers and others read and adhere to a statement of faith<\/a> defining marriage as “exclusively the union of one genetic male<\/a> and one genetic female<\/a>” and saying the unrighteous are sentenced to “everlasting punishment in hell.”<\/p>\n

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If you are a Christian doctor, nurse, paramedic, or other medical professional interested in serving COVID-19 patients in our @SamaritansPurse<\/a> Emergency Field Hospital in NYC, please visit t.co\/EEw1jNtrrk<\/a>. pic.twitter.com\/5i7EeKxLDi<\/a><\/p>\n

— Franklin Graham (@Franklin_Graham) March 29, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

In an interview Thursday with the Charlotte Observer<\/a><\/em>, Graham justified the requirement by comparing LGBT people to drunks, drug users and those who might use the tent hospital as an opportunity to “pick up girls<\/a>.” <\/p>\n

“All of our doctors and nurses and staff, (they’re) Christians,” Graham said. “We believe it’s very important that — as we serve people and help people — we do it in Jesus’ name. …<\/p>\n

“Of course, I believe marriage is between a man<\/a> and a woman<\/a>,” Graham added. “That’s part of who we are. So we have a long list of things we want people to understand and agree with before we take them to work with us. I don’t want a person who is going to be on the job and drinks; that’s not a good witness. I don’t want a person who’s going to be using drugs to be part of our team. I don’t want someone who’s going to be swearing to be part of our team. I don’t want someone who is trying to pick up girls<\/a>, and using this as an opportunity to do those kinds of things.<\/p>\n

“So, we try to screen the people that work with us,” he said. “And we want men<\/a> and women<\/a> who believe the way we<\/em> do and have the same core values that we have.”<\/p>\n

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Franklin Graham says people are dying of the Coronavirus because man<\/a> has sinned against god. He goes on to say the pandemic is happening because the world has turned its back on god. pic.twitter.com\/Kejq9jzeLu<\/a><\/p>\n

— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) April 5, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

Graham also doubled down on his recent assertion on Fox News that the coronavirus pandemic is God’s punishment for sin. <\/p>\n

“When God made man<\/a>, he never intended for man<\/a> to have disease,” Graham told the Observer<\/em>. “And to have death. He put us in a perfect world. The climate was perfect. The conditions were perfect. The food to eat. But man<\/a> rebelled against God. And the Bible is very clear that, as a result of this rebellion against God, we live<\/a> in what we call<\/a> ‘a fallen world.’ So we have cancer. We have the coronavirus. We have diabetes. We have all of the other problems we have as a society. We have murder, we have thefts. …<\/p>\n

“But that wasn’t God’s intention,” Graham added. “That’s why God sent his son Jesus Christ to take our sins. And Christ died for our sins. That’s why we celebrate Easter.<\/p>\n

“So I see the coronavirus, I see the wars of this world, I see the economic problems — I see all these other things — as just a result of the fallen world in which we live<\/a>,” he said. “And that’s as a result of sin that came into the world and has infected the entire human race.”<\/p>\n

Read the Observer<\/em>‘s full story here<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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Franklin Graham Defends Anti-Gay Pledge for NYC Tent Hospital Workers: We Don’t Want Drunks or Drug Users Either<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n