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“Democracy is the right of the people to choose their own
tyrant.” - President James
Madison
Franklin Graham
blasts Obama for 'gay marriage' ruling
By de Andréa, Opinion Editorialist
for ‘THE BOTTOM LINE’:
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Published July 2, 2015
The following is an article
reprinted from
Monday, June 29, 2015 Michael F.
Haverluck (OneNewsNow.com)
Rev. Franklin Graham couldn’t disagree
more with President Barack Obama’s declaration of Friday’s Supreme Court ruling
as being a “victory for America,”
contending the
commander-in-chief will be judged for leading the nation’s moral defeat.
Friday’s landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United
States (SCOTUS) to legalize same-sex ‘marriage’ on a national scale spurred
Billy Graham’s son to reflect on the president’s tireless pursuit to make
homosexual behavior mainstream in America, asserting that he will be held
responsible for leading the country on its sinful course.
"God
will judge him and us as a nation if we don't repent,"
the younger Graham posted on his Facebook page.
Change is indeed
upon us …
Graham, the president of the Billy
Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA)
said “God
defines marriage not the Supreme Court”, then agreed with a
proclamation Obama made at a White House Gay Pride event shortly before the
ruling.
“’There has been an incredible shift
in attitudes across the country,’” Graham quoted Obama, noting that he
was categorically right, before clarifying that the shift was nothing to
celebrate. "But it is definitely not a shift for the good of America.”
The North Carolina-based Christian
leader explained that the changes taking place in America are indicative of its
falling away from God, which will invoke its demise as a nation.
“The shift in attitudes he refers to
is the moral decline we are seeing manifest daily around us,"
Graham wrote, referring to Americans’ growing proclivity to embrace a Leftist
immoral agenda — rather than stand by God’s moral code.
He noted that Americans are now not
only tolerating behaviors declared as sin in the Bible — they are celebrating
them, while encouraging those who have led the revolt against biblical morality
to keep up the “good” fight for “equality.”
"Accepting wrong as right —
accepting sin as something to be proud of — yes, that's definitely a shift,”
Graham stressed.
The world-renowned American
evangelist then repeated Obama’s earlier declaration of thanks to the LGBT
community for transforming the moral fabric of the U.S.
"A lot of what we've
accomplished over these last six and a half years has been because of
you," Obama told homosexual activists who
have been successfully lobbying the White House to enforce their agenda
nationwide.
Billy Graham’s son went on to remark
that the president’s gratitude and attribution given to the sexual libertine
movement is anything but a shocker.
“Should we be surprised that he
thanked the LGBT community for all that they had helped him accomplish during
his time as president?" he rhetorically asked.
While championing his
administration’s ongoing effort to forward the LGBT agenda, Obama touted the
fact he raised the number of states that legalized same-sex marriage from two
when he was inaugurated as president in 2009 to 37 just before Friday’s SCOTUS
decision to legalize it nationwide. Graham concluded that this accomplishment
the president boasted about will ultimately result in disaster for all Americans
in one shape or form.
"The President is leading this
nation on a sinful course, and God will judge him and us as a nation if we
don't repent," the leader of BGEA warned.
Championing
liberty … or rationalizing sin?
SCOTUS Justice Anthony M. Kennedy
declared the reasoning behind the 5-to-4 decision, claiming that a right to
homosexual marriage is guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.
"No longer may this liberty be
denied," Kennedy wrote, representing the
majority’s ruling. "No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the
highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice and family. In forming a
marital union, two people become something greater than once they were."
Agreeing with Kennedy, Obama argued
that the decision was nothing less than a monumental win for a new “civil
rights movement.”
"[The decision is a] victory
for America," Obama announced. "When all Americans are
treated as equal, we are all more free."
Ignoring the
writing on the wall next door
Back in 2005, neighboring Canada started
federally mandating same-sex marriage — one year after Massachusetts became the
first state in the U.S. to legalize the controversial union in 2004. Warning
about the changes that would take place north of the border beginning in 2005,
Graham predicted that the freedom of speech, religion and press would decline
on a grand scale, alerting America that the same would be experienced if it
took the same path.
Recently, the global evangelist
updated America about the federally enforced persecution Canadians now face for
holding to their family values rooted in the Bible concerning “gay
marriage.”
"[In Canada] if you say or write
anything questioning same-sex marriage, you could face discipline, termination
of employment or prosecution by the government!" Graham
recently expressed on his Facebook page before the SCOTUS ruling, according to the Christian Post. "We need to realize that if our
Supreme Court makes same-sex marriage the law in the United States, we will be
in the same boat."
The outspoken evangelical leader then
warned that America will soon embark into a new era of diminishing liberties
that should be protected by the Constitution, particularly when it comes to
religious expression concerning same-sex marriage and family values.
"Will
the next step be to ban us from speaking God's truth from His Word about this
issue?" Graham asked. END
THE
BOTTOM LINE: RIGHT ON! Mr. Graham, but that step has already taken place. The next step is to Ban Gods word altogether.
And the step after that will be to
replace the Bible with the Quran the Constitution with Sharia. And then…need I say what the next step will
be?
Could it be Gods Wrath?
“Yes, the time is coming that whoever kills you will think that he
offers God a service” (John 16:2).
ISIS is coming!
Post Script: The only way to stop ISIS now my friend, is for
America to do a 180…ask forgiveness, hit the undo-button and go back at least
50 years. A hundred and three years and
learning from our mistakes would even be better otherwise we will just end up
in the same place…
Thanks for listening – de Andréa
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