Not something to be flaunted, praised or politicized: Franklin Graham blasts Buttigieg for being gay [View all]

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I know there have been other threads about this. Here's one more.

Morning Mix
‘Not something to be flaunted, praised or politicized’: Franklin Graham blasts Buttigieg for being gay

By Kyle Swenson
April 25 at 5:05 AM

In his effort to push through the crowded room of 2020 Democratic presidential candidates, Pete Buttigieg, the gay mayor of South Bend, Ind., has regularly brought up his Christian faith and his experience balancing scripture with his sexuality. ... “It can be challenging to be a person of faith who’s also part of the LGBTQ community and yet, to me, the core of faith is regard for one another,” the candidate said at a CNN town hall on Monday. “And part of God’s love is experienced, according to my faith tradition, is in the way that we support one another and, in particular, support the least among us.”

By embracing and reconciling two identities that have often been pitted against one another in modern American discourse, Buttigieg has put himself on a collision course with Christian evangelicals, the deeply conservative GOP backbone that has pushed back against LGBTQ rights. ... On Wednesday, one of President Trump’s most vocal evangelical supporters, Franklin Graham, the son of the prominent evangelist Billy Graham, set off that showdown with a series of tweets attacking the South Bend mayor on the grounds of faith.
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“Mayor Buttigieg says he’s a gay Christian,” Graham wrote. “As a Christian I believe the Bible which defines homosexuality as sin, something to be repentant of, not something to be flaunted, praised or politicized. The Bible says marriage is between a man & a woman — not two men, not two women.” ... Graham continued that “The core of the Christian faith is believing and following Jesus Christ, who God sent to be the Savior of the world — to save us from sin, to save us from hell, to save us from eternal damnation.”
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Kyle Swenson is a reporter with The Washington Post's Morning Mix team. He previously worked at the New Times Broward-Palm Beach and Cleveland Scene. Follow https://twitter.com/kyletalking

Let me just add this:

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“So many denouncing Roy Moore when they are guilty of doing much worse than what he has been accused of supposedly doing.” - Franklin Graham

Seems you can find the moral relativism in your heart when it suits you, reverend.

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Standards, according to Graham, are flexible when *he* wants them to be.

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This should be the standard response to whenever these "good Christians" take from the Old Testament in one tweet to condemn people, and then try to buddy up to Jesus in the next!

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