"O living flame of love, that tenderly wounds ..."

Franklin Graham preached against homosexuality at the Family Research Council‘s annual Watchmen on the Walls conference yesterday, announcing, “we don’t want to be called ‘a homophobic.’” The 61-year old son of the charismatic televangelist Billy Graham, who now is president of his aging father’s business, also invited the LGBT community to behead him for his views against same-sex marriage and equal civil rights.

“Are we going to be cowards because we’re afraid?,” Franklin Graham, playing the self-inflicted victim card, posited. “Could we get our heads chopped off? We could, maybe one day. So what? Chop it off!”

Never has there been any threat of beheading Christians for their chosen views on homosexuality, and until four years ago, the majority of Americans shared their views on same-sex marriage.

“I tell people, ‘Listen, I’m not afraid of homosexuals, matter of fact, I love them, I love them enough to care to warn them, that if they want to continue living like this, it’s the flames of hell for you.”
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As I recall, more than one Christian theologian over the years has said that one of the joys of the blessed in heaven is to look down on the suffering of those in hell and to praise God's justice. Mr. Graham's attitude makes perfect sense to those who see no anomaly in such a belief.