Evangelist Franklin Graham is praising Russian President Vladimir Putin for his aggressive crackdown on homosexuality, saying his record on protecting children from gay “propaganda” is better than President Obama’s “shameful” embrace of gay rights.
Graham, who now heads the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association started by his famous father, praises Putin in the March issue of the group’s Decision magazine for signing a bill that imposes fines for adults who promote “propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations to minors.”
The Russian law came under heavy criticism from gay rights activists, and from Obama, ahead of the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. In response, Obama included openly gay athletes as part of the official U.S. delegation to Sochi.
“In my opinion, Putin is right on these issues,” Graham writes. “Obviously, he may be wrong about many things, but he has taken a stand to protect his nation’s children from the damaging effects of any gay and lesbian agenda.”
“Our president and his attorney general have turned their backs on God and His standards, and many in the Congress are following the administration’s lead. This is shameful.”
With the caveat that “I am not endorsing President Putin,” Graham nonetheless praised Russia’s get-tough approach toward gay rights.
“Isn’t it sad, though, that America’s own morality has fallen so far that on this issue — protecting children from any homosexual agenda or propaganda — Russia’s standard is higher than our own?”
Homophobic, traitorous, POS!
And of course this "gay agenda" that he so reviles is simply to be treated like everybody else, and to be allowed to marry who they love.
The idea that his piece of garbage would extoll the virtues of a man who has his political enemies murdered, oppresses any who dare speak out against him, and is right now invading a sovereign nation, over a man who has ended two unnecessary wars, saved the economy from ruin, and worked to provide better access to health care for all American citizens, is indefensible.
No wonder he and Sarah Palin get along so well.
Putin is a psychopath. All these pro-Putin people should be shamed publicly.
ReplyDeleteDeporting would be a good start.
DeleteGraham is probably trying to get an "in" with Russia. Somehow I doubt that Putin would look favorably on someone going over there in his private jet preaching to his subjects. With all the "crusades" Billy Graham made, does anyone remember if he had one in Russia? Franklin might be trying to one-upmanship his father. He is a grifter, just like PayMe.
DeletePutin is gay. I mean, think about it. He is virulently homophobic to the point that he oppresses gays. Then he runs around doing all these "manly" things like riding horses shirtless, doing martial arts where the opponents aren't even fighting back, and shooting tigers that have been drugged and tied up. He is in extreme denial. .Just like a lot of the most anti gay people in this country. I mean does George Reker, Ted Haggard or Larry Craig ring a bell? So the President may wear mom jeans but that just means that he is secure in who he is.
ReplyDeleteThank you! I've always thought he was gay also too.
DeleteNever thought about it until now. You may have a real point. he does do things we would consider him to be flirting with men. OMFG! HAHAHAHA
DeleteI don't think any decent American official would parade around like putin. shit. Only dumbasses like cheney, gop/baggers would do the putin bullshit. All gop and putin (bullies) can do is only talk the talk.
gop/bagger have fallen and can't get up. Their lifeline was worn out a long time ago. Old Spice mf's.
Putin is short, and likely has Napoleon syndrome. When I think about Graham and his private jet I think "Why do the WRONG planes go missing"?
DeleteFranklin's daddy was the real deal. He understood the difference between paling around with politicians and preaching politics. Franklin doesn't.
ReplyDeleteAs for Vlad: Riding in Russia without a shirt says it all. Closet!
Billy Graham was a real antisemite.
DeleteWrong Billy the shit Graham was more than happy to spew his nonsense as long as the coffers remained full and political people sucked his thorny cock.
Delete8:14, Might not be exactly the way I'd say it, but I do agree with you. Never liked or respected Bill Graham, never will. Just another faker spewing bullshit for bucks.
DeleteBilly Graham was nothing but a grifter that stole from the poor and uneducated. He spewed hate daily.
DeleteFranklins father was nothing but a smoother charlatan and thief from the unwitting than he is. Anyone who preaches gospel and takes money is a fraud and a thief.
DeleteBilly's grifting provided a really nice comfortable lifestyle for his family. No wonder Franklin dropped out of divinity school to jump on the $$$ bandwagon. I seriously question anyone who tries to shove their religion on others.
DeleteDid anyone see this?
ReplyDeletehttp://q13fox.com/2014/03/10/gay-man-memorializes-gay-grandfather-in-art-it-reconciles-my-heart-to-his/#axzz2w2gtKjf8
If that doesn't melt your heart................
DeleteOh my! "He told me he loved me" and "His life reconciles mine to me". How many sons ever hear their fathers say "I Love You"? What a beautiful way to pay tribute to his Grandfather's life!
DeleteSomeone like Franlin might be able to learn a thing or two from someone like this man's experience. Then again, maybe not.
Dear Franklin, please feel free to move your entire operation and followers to Russia. NOW. (And do not forget the grafting clan from Alaska/Arizona).
ReplyDeleteYeah he can join snowden.
DeleteDennis Rodman on vacation as well.
DeleteHow does a man "working for god" afford a $50 million corporate jet he keeps off the books and hidden in North Carolina under the name The Emmanual Group? F*cking scam artist!
ReplyDeleteReligion is big business, especially on the internet. Roku streams 327 Religion & Spirituality channels, more channels than any other category they offer.
DeleteScamming for $$$ is the basis for all organized religion.
DeleteAlong with power/control and free sex.
DeleteNot many years ago, this Franklin fraud would have been seen as a traitor and expelled from all political discussions.
ReplyDeleteBtw -- Putin is rumored to like little boys. Someday, the truth will come out, and Franklin and his right-wing cronies will be shown to be as venal and stupid as they are.
Methinks thou dost protesteth too much, conman. Both franklin and putin.
DeleteWhat's worse is these assholes don't see anything wrong in hurting LGBT people without provocation. They will pass laws or get involve in passing laws to make people minding their own business, lives a living hell. Remarkable.
This hateful man should beware of the whirling sound coming from his father's grave. What a scammer.
ReplyDeleteBig daddy Billy Graham was a known anti-semite.
Deletehttp://www.rense.com/general20/billy.htm
Franklin should be asked if he agrees with locking up gay and lesbians for life, which is exactly what Uganda is now doing.
In the last 5 years, the fascist Christian cult has worked tirelessly to get Uganda to pass laws making homosexual acts punishable by death, but they realized their slush fund from European countries would be cut off.
So whores that they are, they decided they would just lock them up forever.
I wonder how many gays Jesus would sentence to life?
His daddy is still amongst the living, but barely.
DeleteNinety-five yrs old.
DeleteHe's not his daddy's son. He's an equal opportunity hater and has a "Thing" against muslims and American Presidents who's father was black and mother was white. Yet he does the old "Sand Shoe Shuck and Jive" for the like minded evandevicals.
DeleteYeah, pops is 95. We learned that from Sarah during her "Dead and dying" people who used to be famous tour. She actually pulled some string (i think) and got a photo of daddy WITH sarah. She was yakking about politics and he was thinking" IS it time for applesauce?Where's my damn applesauce?" Thatcher's folks said "who?" "No fucking way!" Terri Shiavo said " " as did Ronald Regan.
Thatrcher's people actually said that she thought PayMe was STUPID. Even alzheimer's patients see her for what she is!!
DeleteWhy doesn't this clown speak out against rape? It is very big problem in our society... Franklin honey your hate is showing again
ReplyDeleteHow do you say, "As if" in Russian?
ReplyDeleteDo these morons realize that allowing dudes to marry doesn't mean that YOU have to have sex with dudes?
ReplyDeleteReally, gang: allowing those folks to share insurance, inherit, and visit one another in the hospital doesn't change one single thing in your own life. Relax: your butt is safe.
Sheesh
I hope you know that anal sex isn't the most practice sex act between two men.
DeleteAlso anything men can do so can straight couples. Nothing new here.
If they were both honest they would be against anal sex period.
These creatures are hideous. They talk more about gay sex than any gay person I know or don't know. What the hell is their obsession with gay sex?
DeleteScared they might like it? Just a thought.
DeleteAll the little christian kiddies know that anal and oral don't count, so why are these christian assholes so against what they refer to as "gay sex"? Their little "angels" are doing it every which way but vaginal so they can remain "virgins". Get a clue christians!
DeleteDig that.
Delete12:03 pm - remember Sally Jesse Rapheal of the red glasses? She had a show one time with "Christian" girls that did it every which way but loose just as long as their hymen remained intact for their wedding night. VIRGIN! smdh
DeleteGraham tries to scare people with damnation, if they do not agree with him. NEVER have I had a gay person try to "convert" me, and I doubt anyone else has, either. They are happy being with like-minded people. People who were born that way, just as Graham was born with the grifter gene.
DeleteWho would you rather have as a fellow citizen (You can only pick one)? Sarah or Franklin who openly praise Putin at the expense of America? The teabagger with an assault rifle who wants to secede from the United States? Or the non-citizen who has already demonstrated he is willing to lay his life on the line for our country by serving in the military?
ReplyDeleteBefore you decide consider this:
"Non-citizens do extremely well in the military. In fact, Marine General Peter Pace offered the following testimony before Congress about the importance of immigrants in the military:
'[Immigrant soldiers and marines] are extremely dependable ... some 8, 9, or 10 percent fewer immigrants wash out of our initial training programs than do those who are currently citizens. Some 10 percent or more than those who are currently citizens complete their first initial period of obligated service to the country.'"
I wonder what Frankie has to say about the gay soldiers who have died for our country.
Franklin would most likely say it is "God's will" Stupid grifter that he is.
DeleteSpies, gop/baggers, traitors, fake christians, racist, crazy folks all love putin. putin is their man. hahaha pitifulasses.
ReplyDeletefranklin has a nerve to judge anyone. his life is filled with, crime, schemes, lies, drugs, bullshit and women.
idiot
If I had it in my power, I'd send Frankie boy to live in Russia and not be allowed back into the USA! He does not belong w/us. Love Putin, honey boy, you should be banished there!
Delete...Sarah Palin seems to believe that America is absolutely fascinated with Alaska’s wide-open barren nothingness, moose-based diet, and inviting black fly and mosquito population. No mention, of course, of the annual 22.1 suicides per 100,000 residents giving Alaska has the highest suicide rate of all fifty states.
ReplyDeleteBut, shut up – look! There goes a moose!
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/03/14/from-the-makers-of-17-preggers-palin-comes-sarah-palins-more-stuff-about-me-tv/
Funny stuff - thanks!
DeleteThe District Attorney’s Office in Houston, Texas says that no charges will likely be filed against the father who shot his teenage daughter’s boyfriend dead.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/03/14/prosecutor-doesnt-believe-father-who-shot-daughters-boyfriend-dead-will-be-charged/
You have to be kidding! He should be strung up!
DeleteYou probably are not going to like my answer.
DeleteBut it is not the Dad's fault. He heard noises and went to investigate and when finding the boy in his daughters room he asked her who that was. She said she didn't know, the daughter killed her bf by not saying "this is my boyfriend" instead of saying "I don't know".
Gotta' love my neighbor.
ReplyDeleteJust don't get caught.
DeleteMy boyfriend and I read this and now he is trying to find out where Frankie boy lives. One whack is all he wants at him, and I don't mean with his hand. More like an axe.
ReplyDeleteNever has hypocrisy in the right been so transparent, perilous, and cheaply-bought. Truly, they have mastered the art of cutting off the noses of their positions to spite the face of their own values. I for one hope that Hillary is taking notes on this as this infantile, turncoat "Putin worship" will make for some rich fodder during the debates should the issue of leadership and loyalty come up (and it will).
ReplyDeleteWhen the Pope says, "Who am I to judge?" I have to wonder, who is Franklin Graham to judge? Protecting kids from "the gays" while losing democracy? Sarah Palin says, "Do you love your freedoms?" There are no "freedoms" under Putin.
ReplyDeleteKnow what I'd love to do to this guy! A true religious freak that the majority don't agree with - thank god!
ReplyDeleteHere's a thought, FRANKLIN.
ReplyDeleteRead the Sermon On The Mount.
And STFU.
He's too busy sermonizing people because of who they are mounting.
DeleteThese Putin loving people are traitors to America. Every damn one of them. Can you imagine the outrage if people on the other side praised Putin like this when he invaded Georgia. George W. Bush was President then. All of these idiots deserve a one-way ticket to Gitmo. All of 'em. They love Putin so much, they are free to move to Russia.
ReplyDeleteWell Put! Pay your damn taxes retroactively the haul ass to Russia. All because President Obama "embraces" marriage equality, this Evandevical Douche aligns himself with Russia. I wonder why he has that book in his hand? He doesn't understand what any of it means. Does he use it to swat flies? sit higher in the drivers seat?
DeleteSince Sarah Palin is BFF with Franklin and can admire a shirtless Putin taggin' and baggin' a tranquilized polar bear from her house (which she calls bear wrestling) - they should both move to Russia.
ReplyDeleteI think that Mrs. Palin should look up "bear wrestling" on Urban Dictionary. It doesn't mean what she thinks it does.
DeleteYesterday was one of Wasilla's favorite festivals
Deletehttp://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=steak%20and%20blowjob%20day
Ah, preaching violence and hate from the pulpit, the basis for all religion.
ReplyDeleteAnd we keep rewarding them with tax exemptions, what's wrong with this picture?
DeleteHitler didn't like the gays either. They ended up at the concentration camps with all the others he didn't like. Will he praise Hitler too?
ReplyDeleteG- Wait---
ReplyDelete"..No wonder he and Sarah Palin get along so well."
Sarah doesn't like Putin...Franklin Graham likes him...that's different.
Sarah thinks Putin is a "real man" or some such bullshit.
DeleteSarah has the hots for Putin. Why do you think she always fantasizes about Putin's "head" rearing over her horizon?
DeleteHa ha- yeah, I know. But based on her astute and studied analysis of the Ukrainian crisis, SP clearly "thinks" (ahem..) that the big bad Russian bear is the aggressor. She dared the Obama administration to stand up to Putin.
DeleteShe's still learning that there is a North and a South Korea, a North and a South Dakota. We'll have to wait a while to explain the difference between New York State and New York City.
Who declared him "God"? But, didn't Tripp use the word Faggot and Bristol and Willow laughed, taped no doubt. All are true Christians.
ReplyDeleteDon't forget "man cunt." Right, Willow? Mom's experiment isn't turning out so well.
DeleteDoes anyone have an extra copy of the Gay agenda? I lent mine to the local public school so the could adjust their curriculum for next semesters indoctrination classes and never got it back.
ReplyDeleteThanks in advance!
Billy Graham (Frankie's pop) was just another snake-oil salesman getting rich off Christianity and the misery of others. He was attracted to the fame of being Preacher to the Presidents and I always found it embarrassing and even distressing when a Democrat entertained Bill Graham in the White House. And now it seems even the small amount of altruism he may have possessed was not passed down to his offspring. Franklin Graham is the like the crown prince of Preaching for Profit.
ReplyDeleteI love a man of his convictions! Franklin Graham has volunteered to walk the streets of Russia with a periscope, his raincoat that's worn come rain or come shine, a pair of heavy duty rubbers to keep his shoes shined, and a copy of "Playguy" to remind him what two men kissing and three erect penises look like.
ReplyDeleteHe's joining the " Russian Exterminate the Gays" program for free to make sure he treats the least of his brothers with punishment and death, because he interprets the Bible as God's word.
Next he'll write a book "Protecting the heart of Heterosexual Straight Marriage because God makes mistakes".
When are you moving to Russia? Your kind aren't welcome here, Franklin "Wide Stance" Graham!
Where in the Bible does it say "Hate one another as I have hated you"? What a buffoon! HE preaches against the President of his country and Aligns himself with Putin, Palin, anything for attention.
well gee, since teh Talibangelists and TeaTHUGlicans sooooo want to bring back the 1950's I say we treat Fakielynn Graham as he would have been treated then. HUAC, possibly jailed fro treason and if not ostracized and not given access to any means of income or communications.
ReplyDeleteSo.....Putin's coalition includes the Russian Orthodox Church..?.......go figure....
ReplyDeleteGraham has now taken this as far as supporting Putins attack on a civilian Syrian city killing 37 innocents - 6 of which were young children.
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