Billy Graham dies at 99

alh
Thu, 01 Mar 2018 17:37:44 +0000

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-soul-crushing-legacy-of-billy-graham-w517067

Billy Graham saved my soul. In 1973, I was ten years old, growing up in a working-class clan in North Carolina, and I had a problem: I liked boys.

I have never known despair greater than I felt, reading those words. I had already tried to seize salvation, and it had eluded me. I would torment myself for another 20 years trying to find it, trying to “reform,” dating women, attempting suicide, never quite able to shake the voice of Billy Graham promising me eternal damnation, even after I knew it was all a lie.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/05/02/billy-graham-backs-nc-anti-gay-marriage-amendment.html

The Rev. Billy Graham urged North Carolina voters Wednesday to support an amendment to the state constitution banning gay marriage, a move that an observer said was highly unusual but another said was in keeping with the minister’s moral beliefs.

North Carolina already outlaws gay marriage, but adding that ban to the state constitution would make it much harder to change in the future.