{"id":27372,"date":"2015-11-03T20:25:09","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T01:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/evangelist-franklin-graham-loves-putins-antigay-policies\/"},"modified":"2015-11-03T20:25:09","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T01:25:09","slug":"evangelist-franklin-graham-loves-putins-antigay-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/evangelist-franklin-graham-loves-putins-antigay-policies\/","title":{"rendered":"Evangelist Franklin Graham Loves Putin&#039;s Antigay Policies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Evangelist Franklin Graham Loves Putin&#039;s Antigay Policies<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Conservative Christian evangelist Franklin Graham, on a trip to Russia last week, praised President Vladimir Putin and the nation&rsquo;s so-called <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> propaganda law for &ldquo;protecting Russian young people&rdquo; and criticized LGBT-accepting U.S. churches as well as President Obama.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I very much appreciate that President Putin is protecting Russian young people against homosexual propaganda,&rdquo; Graham told Russian newspaper <em>Moskoviskij Komsomolets, <\/em>according to a translation by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/franklin-graham-praises-gay-propaganda-law-critizes-us-secularism-russia-visit\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Right Wing Watch.<\/em><\/a> &ldquo;If only to give them the opportunity to grow up and make a decision for themselves. Again, homosexuals cannot have children, they can take other people&rsquo;s children.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Russia&rsquo;s &ldquo;propaganda&rdquo; law, enacted in 2013, prohibits &ldquo;promotion of nontraditional sexual relations&rdquo; &mdash; basically, anything that portrays LGBT people in a positive light or endorses LGBT equality &mdash; in venues accessible to minors.<\/p>\n<p>Graham, president and CEO of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, which was founded by his father, also told the paper that while he considers Obama &ldquo;a very nice person,&rdquo; he thinks the U.S. president is &ldquo;taking a stand against God.&rdquo; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;He supports and promotes policies that contradict the teachings of God,&rdquo; Graham said. &ldquo;As a Christian I believe that abortion is murder, he supports it. Homosexuality and same-<a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/couples\/?mp_code=akftr\">sex<\/a> marriage &mdash; those are sins against God, and the president is promoting them. I&rsquo;m not against homosexuals as people. But God commanded that marriage should be between a <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">man<\/a> and a <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">woman<\/a>.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>During his Russian sojourn, Graham met with Patriarch Kirill, the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, and decried trends in the U.S. &ldquo;Many churches in America have started to support homosexuality,&rdquo; Graham told Kirill, according to another Russian paper translated by <em>Right Wing Watch.<\/em> &ldquo;This is terrible, it&rsquo;s a sin, and it&rsquo;s against God.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Graham also reportedly told the patriarch that Obama &ldquo;promotes atheism&rdquo; and &ldquo;does not have a Christian worldview.&rdquo; Putin, he said, &ldquo;is protecting traditional Christianity.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Now Graham will seek to influence the U.S. political process with a 50-state tour beginning in January. He will not endorse any candidate but will &ldquo;ask Christians to pray for the country, vote for people who hold biblical values and run for public office at every level,&rdquo; according to a press release on his group&rsquo;s <a href=\"http:\/\/billygraham.org\/story\/franklin-graham-announces-first-decision-america-tour-cities-dates\/\" target=\"_blank\">website.<\/a> His first stop will be in Des Moines January 5, about a month before Iowa holds its presidential caucus. He has other January and February stops scheduled in early primary states such as New Hampshire and South Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>Trudy Ring<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.advocate.com\/world\/2015\/11\/03\/evangelist-franklin-graham-loves-putins-antigay-policies\" class=\"autohyperlink\">www.advocate.com\/world\/2015\/11\/03\/evangelist-franklin-graham-loves-putins-antigay-policies<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evangelist Franklin Graham Loves Putin&#039;s Antigay Policies Conservative Christian evangelist Franklin Graham, on a trip to Russia last week, praised President Vladimir Putin and the nation&rsquo;s so-called <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> propaganda law for &ldquo;protecting Russian young people&rdquo; and criticized LGBT-accepting U.S. churches as well as President Obama. &ldquo;I very much appreciate that President Putin is protecting Russian &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/evangelist-franklin-graham-loves-putins-antigay-policies\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Evangelist Franklin Graham Loves Putin&#039;s Antigay Policies<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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