Charity head Franklin Graham claims gays are causing a ‘moral 9/11’
For the second time in as many days, a member of the Graham family has made a shockingly offensive comment about gays and 9/11.
Anne Graham Lotz, the daughter of evangelical pastor Billy Graham, this week appeared to suggest that God let 9/11 happen because heās too upset about transgender people.
Ms Graham suggested that trans rights was one of the issues that forced God to āabandonā the US, adding of Godās unwillingness to protect America: āI think thatās why God allows bad things to happen. I think thatād why he would allow 9/11 to happen.ā
But now her bigger badder brother Franklin Graham, the head of shoebox appeal charity Samaritanās Purse, has joined his sister in making a sinister 9/11 comparison.
Mr Graham told Fox News pundit Todd Starnes: āThe country is imploding. We are seeing a moral implosion. Just like we saw the World Trade Center on 9/11 when the planes hit the tower, they imploded, they fell from within, and this is whatās happening to our country, weāre falling within.
āOur foundations have been weakened by immorality and itās beginning to crumble.ā
āI want the school boards of America in the hands of evangelical Christians within the next four to six years.
āAnd it can happen and that will have a huge impact because so many school districts now are controlled by wicked, evil people, and the gays and lesbians, and I keep bringing their name up, but they are at the forefront of this attack against Christianity in America.ā
Mr Graham has previously accused Obama of spreading āimmoralityā and āsinā, while praising Russiaās Vladimir Putin for instituting a ban on āgay propagandaā.
In a recent interview with a Russian newspaper, Graham praised Vladimir Putinās support for anti-gay laws ā and claimed that homosexuals ātake peopleās childrenā.
Repeating disturbing rhetoric often used by anti-LGBT vigilantes in Russia, he said: āHomosexuals cannot have children, they can take other peopleās children.ā
