Several British pastors and politicians are voicing concerns about a controversial American evangelist’s plans to preach in the U.K. next year.
Franklin Graham, a prominent evangelical pastor who has made blatantly homophobic and Islamophobic statements in the past, is scheduled to headline the Lancashire Festival of Hope in Blackpool in September 2018. Graham’s three-day event — similar to the “crusades” once led by his famous father, Billy Graham — is reportedly taking place with the blessing of more than 300 church leaders and members in England.
But not all residents of the area are enthused about Graham coming to town. Some have urged the U.K.’s home secretary Amber Rudd to ban the preacher from entering the country altogether, the Guardian reports.
Nina Parker, the pastor of a church in Blackpool, told HuffPost in an email that she’s worried that Graham’s visit could embolden those who are prejudiced toward Muslims and queer people to express that hate.
“It will give oxygen to those who hate as they will be aware of hatred being expressed by a man of high status in the Church,” Parker wrote to HuffPost. “It will portray a Trump style, hard line, hate filled version of Christianity devoid of understanding of and acceptance of ordinary people. It will destroy the reputation of Christianity in this region as it will be assumed that this man speaks for all. It will bring Christians into disrepute.”
Parker has more than 60,000 signatures on a petition to block Graham and his merry band of trouble makers from poisoning the UK with their hate speech.
Personally I wish we could start a petition here in America to kick Franklin Graham and his toxic crew of evangelicals the hell out of this country.
But it wouldn't help.
Even if they left they would be quickly replaced by more just like them, some perhaps even worse.
You know it seems these days that all America exports anymore is stupidity, racism, and intolerance.
I guess that's what MAGA really means.
I hope they are successful in keeping this idiot out of their country.
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ReplyDeleteWhite supremist or payback for Jerusalem? Either way trump is to blame.
I'm just so sad about what we have become in the past year.
ReplyDeleteAs part of the LGBTQA umbrella the hate has always been here. Now everyone gets to see it.
DeleteThe past year? This bullshit has gone on for centuries. Where the fuck y'all been?
DeleteGood for them,although I doubt they will be able stop him.
ReplyDeleteI never understood these hate mongering evangelicals to begin with.
Many (not all) are pseudo-christiany domionist wannabe theocrats. They appear to not read the red words of Jesus Christ of the New Testament.
DeleteToo many, especially the elected ones, IMO, grift for gold in the name of God with guns to rule the world.
It seems that somehow they feel entitled to bring back Manifest Destiny with an intense vengeance to punish those who do not believe exactly as they believe.
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Jesus wept.
ReplyDeleteIf Billy were coherent enough, I wonder what he'd say about his hate-mongering son. I watched plenty of BG crusades back in the day and this BS was never a part of them.
ReplyDeleteWith the exception of a very few white ministers, all whitey wingnut preachers, like Goddamn Graham, should be deflocked for preaching the gospel of hate and prosperity. They should be forced to do Mother Theresa type good deeds all over the poorest areas of America to atone for their numerous sins.
ReplyDeleteMother Theresa is a bad example to follow. Her charities were flush with money yet her poor patients died in pain and agony with nothing more that aspirin to alleviate the pain. And Chemotherapy for cancer? FORGET ABOUT IT. She was pure evil.
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Delete"No one builds a church purely for the love of God — especially in third-world countries where critical services, like hospitals, are lacking. Religious groups that erect houses of worship in these areas do so not just out of the kindness of their heart, but to increase the number of people who believe in their faith." $BANKaccounts.
"New York Times concluded that she was “le$$ interested in helping the poor than in using them as an indefatigable source of wretchedness on which to fuel the expansion of her fundamentalist Roman Catholic beliefs.”
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She also received $1.25 Million from her friend Charles Keating. Keating was one of the key figures behind the 1980s savings and loan crisis, brought about by housing market and loan speculation, which ended up costing American taxpayers $124 BILLION." johnny boy Mc$hame!
'No One Knows Where All Her Money Went'
"only one person with the actual numbers: God. “God knows,” Joshi said. “He is our banker.”
"her very beliefs and practices ensured they were mired in poverty and pain till their dying days."
"When Mother Teresa gave her 1979 Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, she did so with an agenda. Mother Teresa was a staunch opponent of both abortion and birth control, and she made it clear that she believed “natural family planning” would solve the woes of pregnant women who were not ready for a child."
'even for cases of rape' “I feel the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a direct WAR, a direct killing — direct murder by the mother herself.”
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obscure congressional document from 1974. In that record, a report on a congressional
hearing that examined the possibility of amending the Constitution to protect unborn
children, the number is listed as belonging to Right to Life, an anti-abortion group
founded in 1969. Right to Life, which claimed to be America's first pro-life organization,
provided an address in Palos Verdes Estates, Calif.
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McIntyre, the Catholic Archbishop of Los Angeles from 1948-70, who knew President
Richard Nixon."
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@9:31 Just think how newt gingRICH & Callista gingRICH WHO is the third wife of Newt ... fit in to all this...
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Mormons vs Catholic Crusaders!
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Franklin Graham was present when pregnant Bristol Palin wore that huge winter scarf in 90 degree Haiti weather to camouflage her huge belly. He was a part of the Palin "she was fat" lie. Where is that baby, did Nancy French adopt her?
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Delete"In one instance, the campaign suggests staffers point out that Moore couldn’t have called a teenage girl in her bedroom decades ago because “there was no telephone in her bedroom"
"because “said restaurant didn’t hire 15-year-olds” and “the dumpsters were on side (not back).”
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"the media has been acting as a “lynch mob” to discredit Moore."The document says it’s “doing the job most of the press has not bothered to do.”
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"Another false story, this time in the Failing @nytimes, that I watch 4-8 hours of television a day - Wrong! Also, I seldom, if ever, watch CNN or MSNBC, both of which I consider Fake News. I never watch Don Lemon, who I once called the “dumbest man on television!” Bad Reporting."<tinydjt
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http://www.slate.com/blogs/screen_time/2017/12/07/jerry_falwell_and_tinky_winky_the_gay_teletubby.html
" Falwell saw something off about Tinky Winky, the largest pal in Teletubbyland. “He is purple—the gay pride color, and his antenna is shaped like a triangle—the gay pride symbol,” Falwell wrote in an issue of his own magazine. The character had a boy’s voice, he continued, but he often carried a red purse—ahem. The article was titled “Parents Alert: Tinky Winky Comes Out of the Closet.”"
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If only Jesus knew the kind of people that speak for him today: Sarah palin, Graham etc
ReplyDeleteBut then again using God’s name for personal benefit and fooling millions has gone on since God was invented!
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ReplyDeletePalin brought all this to a 'HEAD'. I say thanks...
What is coming neXT?
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Notice how they always give their hatefests names like hope?
ReplyDeleteFirst they don't want Trump, now they don't want these parasites. Good on the Brits for digging in their heels and trying to keep this dross out of their country.
That weird Yanno character was here in Australia last week and the media tried really hard to get people to notice (no doubt hoping somebody would get hurt) but nobody was interested beyond the Far Right rent-a-crowd.
These creeps go to foreign countries hoping to stir up trouble only to see the welcome mat rolled up. Keep it up, world.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Rmv1PmL6q0
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'The Passion of the Christ satan Trying To Tempt Jesus'
-IN Hebrew?...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahweh
if God is the being these preachers say he is i don't wanna go there. all they want is your money.
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