The gloriously growing irrelevance of Franklin Graham BY THE OBSERVER EDITORIAL BOARD

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The gloriously growing irrelevance of Franklin Graham

BY THE OBSERVER EDITORIAL BOARD at the Charlotte Observer

https://www.charlotteobserver.com/opinion/editorials/article229665169.html

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Graham does not represent most Americans. An NBC/Wall Street Journal poll this month showed more than two-third of Americans — 68 percent — are either enthusiastic or comfortable with a presidential candidate who is gay or lesbian. About the same numbers believe that homosexuality should be accepted and same-sex marriage should be legal.

Graham also doesn’t represent most Christians. An American Values Atlas survey released last month showed that Christians overwhelmingly support non-discrimination protections for the LGBT community. That support ranged from 71 percent of white mainline protestants to 54 percent (with only 38 percent against) of white evangelicals.

All of which might explain why Graham’s pulpit pounding is getting a different kind of response these days. Used to be that when Graham told people to boycott Wells Fargo or not buy cookies from Girl Scouts because they treated gays and lesbians as real people, the reverend’s comments would be worthy of big headlines and cable TV crawls. This week, there were a few frowns, but mostly, America shrugged.

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In part, that’s because Graham’s perspective on homosexuality has been pushed to the fringe, but it’s also because of how he has marginalized himself with his vocal support of Donald Trump. Like other supposed faith leaders, Graham has been caught in the trap of politically supporting a man with so many moral failings. How do you tell a gay candidate to repent but utter hardly a peep about the philandering, dishonest man who now holds the office? There’s only one way to get past that inconsistency, and that’s to pretend it doesn’t exist. So Graham has chosen to do something that even many Trump supporters won’t do — he calls the president’s affairs “alleged” and exalts him as a defender of the faith.



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[moondust]

1. Franky and Donny were lovers...

Frauds of a feather.

[rusty quoin]

2. I hope so. When I see evangelicals laying their hand of the #1 pig of the world, I just don't know,

because they still have so much power.

I know what is right, and I know that with a normal thinking democratic country, what happened time and again should never have.

The pig should be voted out, but I cannot predict.

[msongs]

3. he represents xtians he can fleece out of $$ cuz they believe his baloney nt

[malaise]

8. and those who can't differentiate between pray and

prey

[RockRaven]

4. Isn't he the one who gave a strangely large amount of money to a pool boy to

"start a business" or something? Yeah, that's a totally normal thing for a middle-aged totally-heterosexual guy to do, give six figures (or whatever it was) to a random young man you met while on vacation... I'm sure it wasn't hush money for a fling from a self-loathing closeted dude who won't shut up about gay people and gay sex and gay people having sex and.... well, you get the idea.

[phylny]

6. No, that was the hypocrite, Jerry Falwell, Jr.

[RockRaven]

10. Thank you, I knew it was one of the 2nd generation hucksters, but I picked the wrong one.

My mistake.

[ck4829]

5. K&R

[Vinca]

7. I think Franklin doth protest too much.

[wishstar]

9. His hypocrisy putting serial adulterer/porn star payer/p***y grabber up on pedestal is too much

Graham already lost support for being too political back when he used Samaritan's Purse plane to fly around Sarah Palin even before current regime, let alone trying to promote Trump as a ordained by God.