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Behind the Aegis

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Wed Apr 1, 2020, 05:33 AM Apr 2020

Viciously anti-LGBTQ group runs Central Park tent hospital & forces volunteers to reject gay rights

Samaritan’s Purse, an evangelical Christian group that regularly takes advantage of humanitarian crises to spread their far-right agenda, has been revealed as the charity behind a tent hospital that has been erected in New York City’s Central Park.

Franklin Graham, son of the famous evangelist Billy Graham, leads the group. Graham’s history of vicious attacks on LGBTQ people and Muslims spurred several British venues to cancel contracts with his ministry earlier this year.

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Volunteers have to agree that transgender people don’t exist, same-sex marriage is a sin, and gay people should be celibate or risk “damnation and eternal punishment.”

“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,” the ninth item reads. “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.”

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Viciously anti-LGBTQ group runs Central Park tent hospital & forces volunteers to reject gay rights (Original Post) Behind the Aegis Apr 2020 OP
OMG I thought Fema or the Army had set this field hospital up. riversedge Apr 2020 #1
It's not a secret, their name ms liberty Apr 2020 #2
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