It’s Your Favorite Son

Samaritan Purse rejecting LGBTQ volunteers is one instance in Franklin Graham’s extensive track record of homophobic discrimination.

Homosexuality is still being compared to sexual harassment, drug addiction, and alcoholism. These comparisons were made by Franklin Graham, owner of the charity Samaritan’s Purse. Volunteers were required to sign a statement of faith that includes this statement:

9. We believe God’s plan for human sexuality is to be expressed only within the context of marriage, that God created man and woman as unique biological persons made to complete each other. God instituted monogamous marriage between male and female as the foundation of the family and the basic structure of human society. For this reason, we believe that marriage is exclusively the union of one genetic male and one genetic female.
Genesis 2:24; Matthew 19:5–6; Mark 10:6–9; Romans 1:26–27; 1 Corinthians 6:9.

Mayor Bill de Blasio has planned to monitor the charity for discrimination against the ill, but not for discrimination against volunteers. Since volunteers are not covered by anti-discrimination laws, and even if they were, they might not be covered due to religious exemption. Franklin Graham has a history of discrimination from supporting HB2, a bill that would ban…