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geardaddy

(24,931 posts)
Mon May 18, 2015, 01:40 PM May 2015

Franklin Graham demands Jewish Justice Ginsburg follow Christian beliefs on gay marriage

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/05/franklin-graham-demands-jewish-justice-ginsburg-follow-christian-beliefs-on-gay-marriage/

Christian evangelist Franklin Graham invited his Facebook followers to pray for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Saturday, saying they should pray that her eyes “would be opened to the truth of Scripture” so that she would vote against marriage equality, Inquisitr reports.

But Ginsburg is Jewish and not likely a follower of his version of scripture.

“Today, let’s focus our prayers on Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who has served on the Court for over two decades,” Graham wrote on his Facebook page on Saturday. “Those who support same-sex marriage consider her an ally in their fight to toss God’s Holy Word aside.”

“As the Supreme Court continues to deliberate over the constitutionality of same-sex marriage,” he continued, “let’s pray that Justice Ginsburg’s eyes would be opened to the truth of Scripture and that she would not be deceived by the arguments of those who seek to impose their ‘new morality’ on our nation.”


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Franklin Graham demands Jewish Justice Ginsburg follow Christian beliefs on gay marriage (Original Post) geardaddy May 2015 OP
Franklin Graham has not heard of the establishment clause of the First Amendment Gothmog May 2015 #1
He was coked out of his mind on Peruvian Marching Dust that day at school NightWatcher May 2015 #7
Love these headlines... hughee99 May 2015 #2
Fair enough. n/t geardaddy May 2015 #3
Antisemitic, porcine SLOB. . . . BigDemVoter May 2015 #4
Righteous post! This justified rant is marvelous & hilarious about old, mean & frail appalachiablue May 2015 #13
Hmm. A pseudo-Xian wants a Jew to follow OT scripture that Jesus disavowed. Panich52 May 2015 #5
let's go to the flowchart! MisterP May 2015 #8
If she reads this she will crack up laughing. What an idiot to think she would Jefferson23 May 2015 #6
Guy learned to hate at home. Octafish May 2015 #9
Thanks for posting. geardaddy May 2015 #10
Reply deserves post of its own Panich52 May 2015 #11
Bingo - the bigoted apple doesn't fall far from the bigoted tree. bullwinkle428 May 2015 #12
“would be opened to the truth of Scripture” napkinz May 2015 #14

NightWatcher

(39,343 posts)
7. He was coked out of his mind on Peruvian Marching Dust that day at school
Mon May 18, 2015, 02:57 PM
May 2015

Who am I kidding, he never went to a real school, probably just one of those religious "universities".

hughee99

(16,113 posts)
2. Love these headlines...
Mon May 18, 2015, 01:46 PM
May 2015

The kind that use words or phrases not supported by the article itself. Words like "demands". I didn't see anything in the article that would even suggest Graham "demanded" anything of Ginsburg, but I think the spin for the story was written before the writer even listened to what Graham said.

And by the way, Graham can go "F" himself anyway, I'm no fan of all his horseshit, I just don't like shitty journalism either.

BigDemVoter

(4,150 posts)
4. Antisemitic, porcine SLOB. . . .
Mon May 18, 2015, 01:56 PM
May 2015

He needs to shut the FUCK up. . . .

Apparently he inherited his anti-semitic views from his Shit-Hole of a father, good old Billy who liked to beat it with Tricky Dick Nixon. . .

Obviously the apple doesn't fall too far from the tree. What a Fuck Bucket. . . .

appalachiablue

(41,140 posts)
13. Righteous post! This justified rant is marvelous & hilarious about old, mean & frail
Tue May 19, 2015, 12:59 PM
May 2015

Graham, suspicious Nixon and their bigotry, paranoia and malice. Awful-

Panich52

(5,829 posts)
5. Hmm. A pseudo-Xian wants a Jew to follow OT scripture that Jesus disavowed.
Mon May 18, 2015, 02:38 PM
May 2015

Why is it that I, an atheist, seems to know more about Judeo-Christian tenets than a supposed leader of Christianity?

Of course, never mind that religious tenets are not the basis of SCOTUS' decision-making. Except f/ Scalia & maybe Alito...

Hey, Graham! This not now, nor has ever been a 'Christian nation.'

Jefferson23

(30,099 posts)
6. If she reads this she will crack up laughing. What an idiot to think she would
Mon May 18, 2015, 02:53 PM
May 2015

ever accept bigotry as Graham prays for just that, bigotry to win.

Octafish

(55,745 posts)
9. Guy learned to hate at home.
Mon May 18, 2015, 11:29 PM
May 2015

When Billy Graham Planned to Kill One Million People

by Alexander Cockburn
CounterPunch MARCH 12, 2002

There’s a piquant contrast in the press coverage across the decades of Billy Graham’s various private dealings with Nixon, as displayed on the tapes gradually released from the National Archive or disclosed from Nixon’s papers. I’ll come shortly to the recent flap over Graham and Nixon’s closet palaverings about the Jews, but first let’s visit another interaction between the great evangelist and his commander in chief Back in April, l989 a Graham memo to Nixon was made public. It took the form of a secret letter from Graham, dated April 15, 1969, drafted after Graham met in Bangkok with missionaries from Vietnam. These men of God said that if the peace talks in Paris were to fail, Nixon should step up the war and bomb the dikes. Such an act, Graham wrote excitedly, "could overnight destroy the economy of North Vietnam".

Graham lent his imprimatur to this recommendation. Thus the preacher was advocating a policy to the US Commander in Chief that on Nixon’s own estimate would have killed a million people. The German high commissioner in occupied Holland, Seyss-Inquart, was sentenced to death at Nuremberg for breaching dikes in Holland in World War Two. (His execution did not deter the USAF from destroying the Toksan dam in North Korea, in 1953, thus deliberately wrecking the system that irrigated 75 per cent of North Korea’s rice farms.)

This disclosure of Graham as an aspirant war criminal did not excite any commotion when it became public in 1989, twenty years after it was written. I recall finding a small story in the Syracuse Herald-Journal. No one thought to chide Graham or even question him on the matter. Very different has been the reception of a new tape revealing Graham, Nixon and Haldeman palavering about Jewish domination of the media and Graham invoking the "stranglehold" Jews have on the media.

On the account of James Warren in the Chicago Tribune, who has filed excellent stories down the years in Nixon’s tapes, media, in this 1972 Oval Office session between Nixon, Haldeman and Graham, the President raises a topic about which "we can’t talk about it publicly," namely Jewish influence in Hollywood and the media.

Nixon cites Paul Keyes, a political conservative who is executive producer of the NBC hit, "Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In," as telling him that "11 of the 12 writers are Jewish." "That right?" says Graham, prompting Nixon to claim that Life magazine, Newsweek, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and others, are "totally dominated by the Jews." Nixon says network TV anchors Howard K. Smith, David Brinkley and Walter Cronkite "front men who may not be of that persuasion," but that their writers are "95 percent Jewish."

CONTINUED...

http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/09/06/zubin-mehtas-unequal-music/
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