Franklin Graham Has Something Un-Christian For You

As if on cue, fundie religious bigot and Trumpist homophobe Franklin Graham has reacted to the statement from Pope Francis to recognize civil unions for gay and lesbian couples simply to protect their legal rights. Not marriage, mind you, just civil unions. The fulminating Franklin equates the statement to the fall of Christianity, saying on Facebook:

“For Pope Francis to attempt to normalize homosexuality is to say that Holy Scriptures are false, that our sins really don’t matter, and that we can continue living in them. If that were true, then Jesus Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection wouldn’t have been needed. The cross would have been for nothing.”

We're far from being Bible-thumpers, much less religious, but it seems that Graham's religious beliefs are based in the eye-for-an-eye Old Testament rather than the Sermon on the Mount. He's about anger, retribution and hubris, not loving your neighbor.  So, basically a typical right- wing Republican.

So it's really no surprise that this far-right Bible-thumping politico-pastor is proud to support thrice-married, serial sexual predator and amoral liar Donald "Two Corinthians" Trump, who infamously cleared a peaceful protest with clubs and tear gas in Lafayette Square so that he could hold someone else's Bible upside down in front of a church he doesn't attend. How he squares his fealty to Trump with the policy of separating small immigrant children from their parents at the southern border, Trump's hush money to a porn star so she wouldn't reveal their affair, his refusal to denounce white supremacy, etc., can only be explained by his moral bankruptcy (oh, and because he's a right- wing Republican). But please do condemn civil unions.