Mike Pompeo and his diplomatic Christian light. But who is it shining for?

By Julio Severo

Franklin Graham, the son of the late international evangelist Billy Graham, praised U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who spoke at Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano, Texas on September 20, 2020. This is the church of Pastor Jack Graham.

Mike Pompeo

According to Graham, the congregation was very blessed to have him there. Secretary Pompeo told the congregation:

“Faith strengthens American diplomacy, it doesn’t diminish it. Don’t ever give up shining the light. Don’t ever walk away from an opportunity to put faith in the public square. Do walk with the Lord and keep at it. Stay true. Keep believing. All of us together, we’ll make this nation a light unto the world.”

Graham said,

“That’s a message that Christians all across the country need to hear and to heed, isn’t it?”

As a conservative evangelical, I am very glad that Pompeo defended a strong Christian testimony in politics. We really need such Christian courage. But I am sad that his actions have not matched his excellent words.

For example, in 2019 he gave a very special award to a Brazilian left-wing sorcerer who has persecuted conservative Christians in Brazil. As a former CIA director, Pompeo knew much better than I who this sorcerer was. Even so, he gave him an award of religious freedom. In a sense, I am not surprised at such inconsistency, because in 2017 Pompeo travelled to Saudi Arabia to award them for “fighting terrorism.” What is he going to do next? To award the Chinese Communist Party for fighting communism?

I do not oppose any effort of Pompeo to make his Christian light to shine on sorcerers and radical Muslims. But does it include to award them just to please them?

Jesus Christ, our highest example, shined His light on sinners without awarding them. He awarded them, with salvation and the Holy Spirit, only after they converted to the Gospel.

Yet, the Brazilian left-wing sorcerer did not convert to the Gospel. Why did Pompeo award him?

Saudi Muslims did not convert to the Gospel. Why did Pompeo award them?

Pompeo said,

“Don’t ever give up shining the light. Don’t ever walk away from an opportunity to put faith in the public square.”

With such bold Christian statement, I would expect him never to walk away from an opportunity to shine his Christian testimony in the State Department. Perhaps by displaying Bibles in the U.S. embassies. This would be very bold. But under Pompeo, U.S. embassies are not doing it. They are showing the homosexual flag in a bold support for the homosexual movement.

The U.S. Embassy in Brazil celebrated the Gay “Pride” Month and the U.S. Embassy in Moscow Defiantly Celebrated LGBT “Pride” Month in Russia.

To display the Bible would be to shine for Christ. To display the gay flag was to shine for the gay agenda.

By his own actions, Pompeo showed that the gay agenda is above the Bible.

I would understand if his inconsistent actions happened under former left-wing President Barack Hussein Obama, who would not allow Bibles to be prominently displayed in U.S. embassies, but he would be very happy with gay flags being displayed in U.S. embassies.

Yet, Pompeo is not serving under Obama. He is serving under President Donald Trump, who has granted much more freedom for evangelicals to shine their Christian lights.

Obama would punish an evangelical showing his Christian light in the State Department, and he would not punish any effort to show support for the gay agenda in the U.S. embassies.

Why has not Pompeo used his opportunity under Trump to shine his alleged Christian light in the State Department? Why is he using his opportunity to let U.S. embassies freely support the gay agenda?

How can Pompeo expect to make the U.S. a light unto the world if such light is not Christian, but homosexual?

I am a Brazilian. In the ninetieth century, when evangelical Christians in Brazil were persecuted, the U.S. Embassy did everything possible to protect and help them. This is to shine correctly.

But to award a Brazilian anti-Christian left-wing sorcerer has nothing to do with shining a Christian light. This is union with darkness.

To award Saudi Muslims has nothing to do with shining a Christian light. This is union with darkness.

To show the gay flag in the U.S. embassies has nothing to do with shining a Christian light. This is union with darkness.

So America’s light is not shining for Christ, because Pompeo is not using his opportunity in the State Department to spread the Christian light. He is spreading especially the homosexual and Saudi Muslim darkness.

What has shined in the State Department and the U.S. embassies is not the Christian light. It is the homosexual “light.”

I am glad that Franklin Graham praised the excellent words of Christian courage of Pompeo, but I am sad that he did not rebuke his inconsistency.

Graham is known for his courage against the gay agenda, and he speaks forcefully against it. But he has remained silent regarding Pompeo awarding a sorcerer and allowing U.S. embassies to show total support for the gay agenda.

Before allowing Mike Pompeo to preach in his congregation, Pastor Jack Graham should have talked to him to see what he was willing to do to correct his sin of awarding a sorcerer and letting U.S. embassies to make homosexual propaganda. If Pompeo showed true repentance, he should be given an opportunity to give his testimony. But this was not so.

I pray that Franklin Graham may speak what needs to be spoken and that Pompeo may stop working for the darkness and begin to fulfill his own words about shining a Christian testimony.

Portuguese version of this article: Mike Pompeo e sua luz diplomática cristã. Mas para quem ela está brilhando?

Source: Last Days Watchman

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U.S. evangelical preacher Franklin Graham writes open letter after organizers canceled his event in the United Kingdom over “incompatible views” on gay “marriage”

By Julio Severo

A famous American evangelical preacher has written an open letter after organizers decided to cancel his event in the United Kingdom following pressure and complaints from LGBT activists.

Franklin Graham was due to visit Glasgow, Newcastle, Sheffield, Liverpool, Cardiff, Milton Keynes, Birmingham and London later in 2020.

But the ACC Liverpool conference center has decided to cancel the 67-year-old’s show after branding his views “incompatible” with their values, adding, “We can longer reconcile the balance between freedom of speech and the divisive impact this event is having in our city.”

The decision to cancel the show came after a petition was started by the Liverpool Labour LGBT Network.

Graham was labeled a “homophobic hate preacher” by the Liverpool Labour LGBT Network, which wrote in a letter that they fear “Graham’s appearance may incite hateful mobilization and risk the security of our LGBTQ+ community.”

Graham, who is a vocal supporter of Donald Trump and the son of the late international evangelist Billy Graham, has previously described gay “marriage” as a sin and has defended children against homosexual indoctrination in the schools.

LGBT activists in several British cities he was due to visit also pressured government officials and political leaders to stop him from speaking.

Sheffield Mayor Dan Jarvis has criticized the American preacher, and said in a statement: “Sheffield is a city of sanctuary [for homosexuals and Muslims]. We welcome people from all backgrounds, irrespective of race, religion, belief or their sexuality. As a city and as a region, we are proud to stand for equality, diversity, respect and compassion. I believe in free speech and of the right to freedom of expression, within the parameters of the law. But I also believe in people’s rights to disagree with extreme beliefs such as those preached by Franklin Graham. Intolerance cannot be welcomed here in South Yorkshire.”

Representative Heather Paterson said: “Franklin Graham has repeatedly publicly promoted his homophobic beliefs, including but not limited to branding homosexuality a sin. We believe that these statements far exceed freedom of speech and are direct hate speech and incitement to violence against LGBTQ+ communities and individuals, which should not be welcomed in our city or anywhere else.”

Kelvin Holdsworth, Provost of Glasgow Cathedral, said on Twitter: “Have just heard that Franklin Graham is coming to the SSE Hydro in Glasgow next year. Very surprised to hear that @SSE would want to be associated with him. #homophobia.”

Peter Nimmo, minister of the Presbyterian Church of Scotland in Inverness, fumed: “Franklin Graham tour includes Glasgow. I trust Scottish churches give him the cold shoulder, too.”

Graham is facing protests in the United Kingdom because of his stance against gay “marriage” and because he has said that homosexual behavior is sin. When laws support homosexual behavior, people who do not support it are persecuted.

In a report titled “Hateful Homophobe Franklin Graham Canceled by U.K. City,” The Advocate, the largest gay magazine in the U.S. and in the world, explained Graham’s “homophobia”:

Graham, head of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, founded by his late father, has a long history of anti-LGBTQ statements. In one of the most recent, he tweeted that Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg, who is both gay and Christian, should repent of the “sin” of homosexuality. In 2018, in response to the circulation of an old quote from former President Jimmy Carter saying Jesus Christ would have no problem with same-sex marriage, he said Carter was “absolutely wrong” and that God had destroyed the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah because they embraced homosexuality. (That Bible passage is open to other interpretations.)

In 2016, he defended House Bill 2, legislation passed by his home state of North Carolina to prevent transgender people from using restrooms and changing rooms that match their gender identity. It “protects the safety and privacy of women and children and preserves the human rights of millions of faith-based citizens of this state,” Graham said at the time, implying that transgender people are a threat. That remark got him banned from Facebook for a brief time two years later.

He has also praised Russia’s ban on so-called gay propaganda, which prohibits any positive mention of LGBTQ identity that could be heard or viewed by minors. “I very much appreciate that President Putin is protecting Russian young people against homosexual propaganda,” Graham told a Russian newspaper in 2015. “If only to give them the opportunity to grow up and make a decision for themselves. Again, homosexuals cannot have children, they can take other people’s children.”

In addition to LGBTQ people, targets of Graham’s ire have included Planned Parenthood [the largest abortion network in the U.S.], which he has described as “Hitleristic,” and Islam, which he has called “evil.”

Graham is a major defender, however, of Donald Trump.

Yet, it is not only Graham who defends Trump. When I and several U.S. evangelical leaders criticized in 2019 Trump’s effort to legalize homosexuality around the world, what did The Advocate did? It criticized me and these other evangelical leaders and, incredibly, defended Trump against us evangelicals.

Franklin Graham has been silent about Trump’s homosexualist effort. Even though the U.S. president is very fond of Graham and has even invited him for his personal meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump has been also silent about the LGBTQ campaign against Graham in the United Kingdom.

Even being a spiritual adviser to Trump, Graham is not getting any presidential help. Trump, who uses to intervene in many international issues involving Americans, has said nothing about the homosexualist persecution against Graham, who is always voicing public support for Trump.

Graham has been a passionate defender of Trump. He has defended him in everything. For example, when Christianity Today, the largest liberal evangelical magazine in the U.S., criticized Trump on December 2019 saying that he deserved to be impeached and suggesting that evangelicals should not support him, Graham made a very strong defense of Trump against Christianity Today.

Why Trump’s silence now? To defend Christians or even to defend an American citizen who is a victim of homosexual bullying is less important than defending an effort of the U.S. government to legalize homosexuality around the world? The Trump administration has not been silent about criticizing Christian nations that reject homosexuality, but it has been silent about Saudi Arabia, a U.S. ally, executing homosexuals.

With no support from Trump, Graham addressed LGBTQ activists in the United Kingdom. In his “A letter to the LGBTQ community in the UK,” Graham explained that he has no hatred of homosexuals. He said:

It is said by some that I am coming to the UK to bring hateful speech to your community. This is just not true. I am coming to share the Gospel, which is the Good News that God loves the people of the UK, and that Jesus Christ came to this earth to save us from our sins.

The rub, I think, comes in whether God defines homosexuality as sin. The answer is yes. But God goes even further than that, to say that we are all sinners—myself included. The Bible says that every human being is guilty of sin and in need of forgiveness and cleansing. The penalty of sin is spiritual death—separation from God for eternity.

That’s why Jesus Christ came. He became sin for us. He didn’t come to condemn the world, He came to save the world by giving His life on the Cross as a sacrifice for our sins. And if we’re willing to accept Him by faith and turn away from our sins, He will forgive us and give us new life—eternal life—in Him.

My message to all people is that they can be forgiven and they can have a right relationship with God. That’s Good News. That is the hope people on every continent around the world are searching for. In the UK as well as in the United States, we have religious freedom and freedom of speech. I’m not coming to the UK to speak against anybody, I’m coming to speak for everybody. The Gospel is inclusive. I'm not coming out of hate, I’m coming out of love.

I invite everyone in the LGBTQ community to come and hear for yourselves the Gospel messages that I will be bringing from God’s Word, the Bible. You are absolutely welcome.

Another challenge Graham faces in the United Kingdom is Islam. This once Protestant nation is now fast succumbing to Islam, and Graham reportedly described Islam an “evil and very wicked religion.”

Christians are living in hard times. If Franklin Graham, who is one of the most powerful evangelical leaders in the United States, can suffer harassment and bullying for preaching the Gospel in a nation with a strong Christian history, what will happen to many other Christians who voice the Bible message on homosexuality?

These are easy times for coward and silent Christians. But the time will come when even cowards will be targeted by the same fanatics who persecute courageous Christians today, because fanatics will sooner or later require not only silence, but also total conversion to their fanaticism, whether homosexual or Islamic.

With information from the DailyMail, The Advocate and FoxNews.

Portuguese version of this article: Pregador evangélico americano Franklin Graham escreve carta aberta depois que organizadores cancelaram seu evento no Reino Unido por “opiniões incompatíveis” sobre “casamento” gay

Source: Last Days Watchman

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Franklin Graham criticizes Christianity Today for its far-left-wing editorial to remove Donald Trump saying his father Billy voted for the president and praised him before his death

By Julio Severo

Franklin Graham, the son of the late evangelist Billy Graham who founded Christianity Today, said his father would be disappointed in the anti-Trump editorial the magazine published on December 2019.

“My father supported Donald Trump, believed in Donald Trump and he actually voted for Donald Trump and if he were here today he would tell you that himself,” Graham said to Fox News.

Christianity Today’s Editor-in-Chief Mark Galli wrote an op-ed that said President Trump should be removed from office, mentioning Billy Graham’s name twice, as if the famous evangelist could support a far-leftist stance of the magazine against Trump.

“They’re a very liberal left-wing magazine now and my father did start it back in the ‘50s,” the younger Graham said on Fox News, explaining his grandfather was also an early editor of the publication. “But over the last 20, 30 years he hasn’t been a part of it and it’s drifted to the left. And this magazine does not speak for these evangelical Christians.”

As a confirmation that Christianity Today does not speak for evangelicals, 200 conservative evangelicals, including Graham himself, signed a letter to the magazine’s president, Timothy Dalrymple, to reverse its left-wing stance against Trump and against pro-Trump evangelicals.

Among the signatories of the letter are George Wood, chairman of the World Assemblies of God Fellowship, Rev. Tim Hill of the Church of God, former Arkansas governor and GOP presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee; and former Minnesota GOP Rep. Michele Bachmann.

Dalrymple refused to accept criticism that Christianity Today has become far-left. Instead, he wrote that his magazine is in fact “theologically conservative” and “does not endorse candidates.”

“Out of love for Jesus and his church, not for political partisanship or intellectual elitism, this is why we feel compelled to say that the alliance of American evangelicalism with this presidency has wrought enormous damage to Christian witness,” Dalrymple wrote.

Roughly 8 in 10 white evangelical Protestants say they approve of the way Trump is handling his job, according to a December poll from The AP-NORC Center. This is not a surprise because the main supporters for Trump in 2016 were white evangelicals, who gave him the victorious presidency.

The Pew Research Center reports that 77 percent of white evangelical Protestants approve of Trump’s presidency. Yet some actions of his administration have caused confusion among evangelicals. Even though he has been a pro-life champion — except in cases of babies conceived in rape —, Trump has not only appointed pro-homosexuality judges, but, just as Obama did, his administration has also meddled in foreign affairs and rebuked Christian nations that ban homosexuality.

However, Trump’s progressive stance on homosexuality is hardly a problem for Christianity Today, which has the same progressive stance.

Even though Christianity Today voiced all kind of left-wing criticism against Trump, there is one point where the left-wing magazine did not voice a single criticism against Trump: Homosexuality. It was the only issue where Christianity Today exempted Trump.

I was not so lucky. In 2009, Christianity Today, in its Brazilian edition called “Cristianismo Hoje,” published a long interview with me, and they saw a lot of problems in my Christian stance against the gay ideology.

My interview with the Brazilian version of Christianity Today was published in its printed magazine and on its website. You can, if you read Portuguese, see it here in Cristianismo Hoje. Because Christianity Today edited important points of my interview, you can also read it, in Portuguese, in full here in my Brazilian blog.

In one of the points of the interview, the Brazilian Christianity Today said,

Severo is one of those quixotic evangelicals, willing to fight mills that maybe only he can see. In his words, even the Brazilian government would be interested in asking for his deportation because of the criticism of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. “The president makes an uncompromising defense of homosexuality and abortion. How much is left for us to consider Lula and his administration as possessed? It is destroying morality and honesty of society,” he says. The histrionic tone gives Julio Severo’s profile an incendiary outline that he makes a point of feeding, not just when he speaks of homosexuality. He defends, for example, the right of evangelical parents to homeschool their children (a practice prohibited by Brazilian law) as a way of keeping them safe from the school’s allegedly harmful influences.

Lula was the Brazilian counterpart of Obama and a friend of Obama. Even though Christianity Today portrayed me as a “quixotic” evangelical — a reference to Don Quixote, who saw imaginary threats —, the homosexualist threat is far away from being imaginary.

Fortunately, U.S. conservative evangelicals have shown more respect for my work. WND has published several interviews with me for over one decade and The Religion and Society Report, of the late theologian Harold Brown, published a long essay by me in 2006 titled “Behind The Homosexual Tsunami in Brazil,” detailing the non-imaginary threats of the Lula administration in Brazil.

Like the U.S. Christianity Today, the Brazilian Christianity Today sees only left-wing Protestants and non-Protestants as realistic, down-to-earth, practical and serious.

Originally, Billy Graham founded Christianity Today in the 1950s to counter left-wing Protestant magazines. But the progressive virus is so powerful that Christianity Today was infected. This infection has spread, through the U.S. Christianity Today, to other nations, including Brazil, which has its Christianity Today as spiritually rotten as the original.

I am glad that at last Christianity Today has been exposed by what it is now: Far left. And it was exposed by Franklin Graham, a man who has all authority to say what he said about the far-left magazine. I am glad also that Christianity Today, which aligns itself with left-wing politicians, has attacked Trump. This shows that Trump is in the right way.

Yet, I am sad that the same far-left Christianity Today that saw a lot of problems in my Christian stance against the homosexual ideology saw no problem with Trump’s stance on homosexuality.

Different from Christianity Today that criticized everything about Trump, except his stance on homosexuality, I praise his pro-life record, but I decry the insistence of his administration to keep pressing Christian nations in Africa to embrace sodomy.

Trump has been cowardly attacked by Christianity Today. As an evangelical who has also been cowardly treated by Christianity Today, I would like to offer my humble evangelical advice for Trump to change course on the gay ideology.

I would never offer advices to Obama and Lula, because in their socialism they would reject them. But, if given an opportunity, I would offer them to Trump, because he is not closed to evangelicals.

Or Trump could listen to Franklin Graham. In a cover story of Decision, the official magazine published by the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, Franklin praised Russian President Vladimir Putin for passing a law protecting children and teens against homosexual propaganda. He also decried the efforts of Obama to attack Russian for its protective law.

If I could offer an advice to Trump, it would be exactly what Franklin said in defense of the Russian law protecting children and teens.

As to Christianity Today, I have no advice, but just a question: is it too late for it to get rid of the progressive virus?

With information from DailyMail.

Portuguese version of this article: Franklin Graham critica revista Christianity Today (Cristianismo Hoje) por seu editorial de extrema esquerda para remover Donald Trump, dizendo que seu pai Billy votou no presidente e o elogiou antes de sua morte

Source: Last Days Watchman

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Trump blasts Christianity Today, evangelical magazine founded by evangelist Billy Graham, for saying that he should be removed from presidency. Trump said that Graham voted for him and that the magazine, which drifted away from Graham long ago, became far left and morally lost and confused.

By Julio Severo

Donald Trump lashed out at a prominent evangelical Christian magazine on December 20, 2019 and praised the son of its founder, the legendary evangelist Billy Graham, for saying his father voted for the president before his death.

Trump said Christianity Today, founded in 1956, has become a far-left magazine. The magazine’s top editor wrote in an editorial published on December 19, 2019 that Trump should be removed from office.

“Thank you to Franklin Graham for stating that his father, the late great Billy Graham, voted for me in the 2016 Election. I know how pleased you are with the work we have all done together!” said Trump.

Billy Graham, the famed evangelical preacher, died in 2018. Franklin Graham disclosed his father’s pro-Trump vote in a Facebook post.

Trump noted that Christianity Today is no longer affiliated with the Graham ministries. He suggested the magazine is “looking for those of the socialist/communist bent, to guard their religion.” He also said that they “would rather have a Radical Left nonbeliever, who wants to take your religion & your guns, than Donald Trump as your President.”

“The fact is, no President has ever done what I have done for Evangelicals, or religion itself!” he claimed.

Rev. Billy Graham was noted for counseling past presidents. He counseled both right-wing and left-wing presidents. His son wrote on Facebook that his father “knew Donald Trump, he believed in Donald Trump, and he voted for Donald Trump. He believed that Donald J. Trump was the man for this hour in history for our nation.”

“For Christianity Today to side with the Democrat Party in a totally partisan attack on the President of the United States is unfathomable,” the younger Graham added, cataloging some of Trump’s policy achievements.

“The list of accomplishments is long, but for me as a Christian, the fact that he is the most pro-life president in modern history is extremely important — and Christianity Today wants us to ignore that, to say it doesn’t count?” he asked.

The attack from Christianity Today came one day after the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives passed two articles of impeachment against Trump. Democrats want to impeach Trump because he asked the Ukrainian president to investigate the corruption and money laundering of Democrats in Ukraine since the 2014 coup orchestrated by Barack Obama, George Soros and neocons that overthrew the pro-Russian president in Ukraine and replaced him with a president favorable to the corruption of Democrats.

The attack from Christianity Today is among the most public Trump condemnations from Christian media since the 2016 campaign.

The Pew Research Center reports that 77 percent of white evangelical Protestants approve of Trump’s presidency. Yet some actions of his administration have caused confusion among evangelicals. Even though he has been a pro-life champion — except in cases of babies conceived in rape —, Trump has not only appointed pro-homosexuality judges, but, just as Obama did, his administration has also meddled in foreign affairs and rebuked Christian nations that ban homosexuality.

However, Trump’s progressive stance on homosexuality is hardly a problem for Christianity Today, which has the same progressive stance.

Christianity Today mentioned many “problematic” issues of Trump, but strangely it mentioned nothing about homosexuality — probably because it saw no problem in this issue. It was the only issue where Christianity Today exempted Trump.

I was not so lucky. In 2009, Christianity Today, in its Brazilian edition called “Cristianismo Hoje,” published a long interview with me, and they saw a lot of problems in my Christian stance against the gay ideology.

My interview with the Brazilian version of Christianity Today was published in its printed magazine and on its website. You can, if you read Portuguese, see it here in Cristianismo Hoje. Because Christianity Today edited important points of my interview, you can also read it, in Portuguese, in full here in my Brazilian blog.

In one of the points of the interview, the Brazilian Christianity Today said,

Severo is one of those quixotic evangelicals, willing to fight mills that maybe only he can see. In his words, even the Brazilian government would be interested in asking for his deportation because of the criticism of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. “The president makes an uncompromising defense of homosexuality and abortion. How much is left for us to consider Lula and his administration as possessed? It is destroying morality and honesty of society,” he says. The histrionic tone gives Julio Severo’s profile an incendiary outline that he makes a point of feeding, not just when he speaks of homosexuality. He defends, for example, the right of evangelical parents to homeschool their children (a practice prohibited by Brazilian law) as a way of keeping them safe from the school’s allegedly harmful influences.

Lula was the Brazilian counterpart of Obama and a friend of Obama. Even though Christianity Today portrayed me as a “quixotic” evangelical — a reference to Don Quixote, who saw imaginary threats —, the homosexualist threat is far away from being imaginary.

Fortunately, U.S. conservative evangelicals have shown more respect for my work. WND has published several interviews with me for over one decade and The Religion and Society Report, of the late theologian Harold Brown, published a long essay by me in 2006 titled “Behind The Homosexual Tsunami in Brazil,” detailing the non-imaginary threats of the Lula administration in Brazil.

Like the U.S. Christianity Today, the Brazilian Christianity Today sees only left-wing Protestants and non-Protestants as realistic, down-to-earth, practical and serious.

Originally, Billy Graham founded Christianity Today in the 1950s to counter left-wing Protestant magazines. But the progressive virus is so powerful that Christianity Today was infected. This infection has spread, through the U.S. Christianity Today, to other nations, including Brazil, which has its Christianity Today as spiritually rotten as the original.

I am glad that at last Christianity Today has been exposed by what it is now: Far left. And it was exposed by Franklin Graham, a man who has all authority to say what he said about the far-left magazine. I am glad also that Christianity Today, which aligns itself with left-wing politicians, has attacked Trump. This shows that Trump is in the right way.

Yet, I am sad that the same far-left Christianity Today that saw a lot of problems in my Christian stance against the homosexual ideology saw no problem with Trump’s stance on homosexuality.

Different from Christianity Today that criticized everything about Trump, except his stance on homosexuality, I praise his pro-life record, but I decry the insistence of his administration to keep pressing Christian nations in Africa to embrace sodomy.

Trump has been cowardly attacked by Christianity Today. As an evangelical who has also been cowardly treated by Christianity Today, I would like to offer my humble evangelical advice for Trump to change course on the gay ideology.

I would never offer advices to Obama and Lula, because in their socialism they would reject them. But, if given an opportunity, I would offer them to Trump, because he is not closed to evangelicals.

Or Trump could listen to Franklin Graham. In a cover story of Decision, the official magazine published by the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, Franklin praised Russian President Vladimir Putin for passing a law protecting children and teens against homosexual propaganda. He also decried the efforts of Obama to attack Russian for its protective law.

If I could offer an advice to Trump, it would be exactly what Franklin said in defense of the Russian law protecting children and teens.

As to Christianity Today, I have no advice, but just a question: is it too late for it to get rid of the progressive virus?

With information from DailyMail.

Portuguese version of this article: Trump critica Christianity Today (Cristianismo Hoje), revista evangélica fundada pelo evangelista Billy Graham, por dizer que ele deveria ser removido da presidência dos EUA. Trump disse que Graham votou nele e que a revista, que se afastou de Graham há muito tempo, tornou-se de extrema esquerda e moralmente perdida e confusa.

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Franklin Graham praises mayor who said that the LGBTQ agenda is an affront to Almighty God

By Julio Severo

Evangelist Franklin Graham is praising an American mayor for his “guts.” And he’s encouraging his Facebook followers to pray that a state mandate for LGBT indoctrination will be overturned.

Graham explained that Mayor Alfonso Cirulli of Barnegat Township in New Jersey “is coming under fire for saying that the LGBTQ agenda is ‘an affront to Almighty God.’” Graham wrote, “Love this guy — he’s got a lot of guts!”

At a meeting last week of the township, Cirulli “voiced his concerns about a new school curriculum mandated by the state requiring students be taught LGBTQ history.”

WND reported Cirulli was launching a “campaign against a new law that will require public schools to teach LGBT history and the contributions of prominent LGBT individuals.”

New Jersey is the second state in the U.S. to mandate such indoctrination. California was the first.

Cirulli said, “No group has a right to force others to comply with their beliefs, deprive them of their First Amendment rights, and strip the rights of parents of how to morally raise their children.”

Some 20 year ago, homosexualists said that conservatives were lying when they said that homosexualists were after children. The time has proved conservatives right and homosexualists liars.

An effective government way to stop homosexualists from chasing children with their propaganda and school indoctrination would be a law banning homosexual propaganda to children and adolescents. Such law exists — in Russia — and it successfully protects children from homosexual indoctrination. Even Franklin Graham praised such law in a 2014 cover story in Decision magazine, published by the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association.

For the U.S. to have such protective law, the U.S. president should take some action. Under left-wing President Barack Hussein Obama, such action was impossible. In fact, Obama was a fierce opponent of the Russian law.

Under President Donald Trump, there are conflicting signs: most time he makes no opposition to the gay agenda and sometimes he favors it.

So while in Russia the president is fighting the homosexual indoctrination of children, in the U.S. the mayor of a small town is doing it, while the U.S. president shows not courage or intention to confront head-on the most destructive agenda against children. On the contrary, he has celebrated the Gay “Pride” Month and launched a global campaign to make sodomy legal around the world.

Perhaps Franklin Graham or other evangelical leaders could encourage Trump to take some lessons from Putin or Cirulli about how to confront the evils of homosexual propaganda and indoctrination to children.

With information from WND (WorldNetDaily).

Portuguese version of this article: Franklin Graham elogia prefeito americano que disse que a agenda LGBTQ é uma afronta ao Deus Todo-Poderoso

Source: Last Days Watchman

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