How Franklin Graham pushed a domestic abuse victim to return to her husband

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🔔NEW story from me:

Evangelist @Franklin_Graham pushed a domestic abuse victim to return to her husband.

He asked whether she was cheating on her husband.

“It was a good question to ask,” Graham told me. “I would’ve asked it again.”

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How Franklin Graham pushed a domestic abuse victim to return to her husband
Graham asked whether she was cheating on her husband. “It was a good question to ask,” the evangelist said. “I would’ve asked it again.”
4:05 AM · Jun 20, 2022

https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2022/06/20/franklin-graham-domestic-abuse-abedini/

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BOISE — When Naghmeh Panahi’s Christian-pastor husband was imprisoned in Iran, she found one of her biggest advocates in a powerful evangelical leader, the Rev. Franklin Graham.
Graham “took me under his wing,” Panahi said, and the two grew close between 2013 and 2015, texting and speaking by phone several times a month. Graham sent 71 emails to Panahi from his private Gmail account, according to a review by The Post. He boosted her story with his massive online following, sent private planes to whisk her to speaking engagements, bankrolled a trip to Disneyland for her two children and took her family out for a steak dinner in Boise. He helped turn her bright-yellow shirts, her husband’s favorite color, into a symbol for evangelicals who wanted to fight for religious freedom abroad.

But the unlikely friendship between Graham and an Iranian immigrant came to an abrupt halt — and since last fall, on social media and at a handful of churches and conferences across the country, Panahi has been more widely sharing why. Her then-imprisoned husband, Saeed Abedini, had abused her physically and emotionally for most of their 13-year marriage, she said, and when Graham first heard, he called her in November 2015.

“Naghmeh, are you cheating on him?” he asked. Panahi replied strongly that she was not.

Graham, son of the evangelical titan Billy Graham, confirmed in a phone interview with The Post that he asked the question, saying he suspected an affair because Panahi had been advocating so fervently for her husband’s release only to “go cold on him.”

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[Loryn]

1. Ugh!

Franklin Graham makes me ill.

He is awful in every way.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

2. Read that this morning

Graham's a fucking creep

[keithbvadu2]

3. Maybe he was thinking of fellow evangelist younger Jerry Falwell and his wife.

Maybe he was thinking of fellow evangelist younger Jerry Falwell and his wife.

[New Breed Leader]

4. That's the Patriarchy for ya