Franklin Graham pulls bank accounts over same-sex ads
Standard Disclaimer - posted in the Atheists/Agnostics Group, a safe haven though not necessarlly for Graham crackers. Yes, I know "cracker" is a slur, I am one. The White Zone is for loading and unloading only.Wells-Fargo bank should not get into a moral debate and take sides, says Graham. As he inserts himself into a moral debate and happily take sides.
Franklin Graham is calling on Christians to boycott corporations that feature same-sex relationships in their commercials. And he says he’ll do his part by moving all the bank accounts for his two ministries out of Wells Fargo because of its ad featuring a lesbian couple.
““This is one way we as Christians can speak out – we have the power of choice,” Graham wrote on Facebook over the weekend. “Let’s just stop doing business with those who promote sin and stand against Almighty God’s laws and His standards. Maybe if enough of us do this, it will get their attention...”
He wants Christians to stop giving their money to businesses, such as Wells Fargo and Tiffany jewelers, “that use shareholders’ advertising dollars to promote homosexuality. … It’s promoting a godless lifestyle. … A bank should be promoting the best interest rates they’re going to give me and what they can do for me as a business. But they should not be trying to get into a moral debate and take sides.”
Graham specifically objected to a Wells Fargo TV and online ad that features a lesbian couple learning sign language for their adopted daughter. “Hello, beautiful,” the couple in the ad tell the little girl in sign language. “We’re going to be your new mommies.”
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/living/religion/article23496706.html#storylink=cpy
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go into banks and ask if they discriminate against gay people.
Please do that, then find a large mattress. 
You know, the guy constantly touted on Certain DU Groups as "a class act," "a real Xian," bla-bla-bla.
Long time ago, I posted in the "R" group that Billy Graham had endorsed GW Bush in the 2000 election. People reacted like I had personally barbecued Bambi's Mom: "Billy Graham is a life-long Democrat!" "He never endorses candidates!"
That crap persisted, even after I linked to a video of the event. Which was all over the Internets. Graham did his usual "cannot endorse" shuck-and-jive. But he made it clear who he was voting for and praised GW to the skies. Graham pulled the same trick with Romney in 2012.
I just stumbled over this French site with lots of well-documented info on Billy Graham's political shenanigans, going back to his Red-baiting in the Joe McCarthy era. And his deep, abiding hypocrisy.
Especially Graham's bromance with Dick Nixon. One example:
“Billy Graham tells me an astonishing thing”, Nixon informed Haldeman on September 13, 1971. “The IRS is battering the shit out of him. Some son-of-a-bitch came to him and gave him a three-hour grilling.”
Nixon was indignant, and came quickly to the point: “Bob, please get me the names of the Jews, you know, the big Jewish contributors of the Democrats...Could we please investigate some of the cocksuckers?” The following day the President’s outrage had not subsided: “The IRS is full of Jews, Bob...That’s the reason they’re after Graham..."
And there's this, regarding Graham's association with Nixon:
Very long article, but well worth the read. Especially if you grew up watching Saint Billy's TV Crusades:
http://lisa.revues.org/4143
