Evangelist Franklin Graham Calls For Disney Boycott Over Gay Characters

[jpak]

Source: Huffington Post

Not even Disney can escape the ire of Franklin Graham.

After news that the family-friendly film giant had included a same-sex kiss in a cartoon and will feature a gay character in its upcoming “Beauty and the Beast” remake, the evangelical pastor called on his followers to “say no to Disney.”

In a Facebook post shared this week, Graham wrote that the company is “trying to push the LGBT agenda into the hearts and minds of your children — watch out!” Then, acknowledging that “Disney has the right to make their cartoons” because “it’s a free country,” the evangelist went on to state, “as Christians we also have the right not to support their company. I hope Christians everywhere will say no to Disney.”

The same-sex cartoon kiss appeared on “Star vs. The Forces of Evil” this week when an array of couples were shown kissing, including two men. Meanwhile, “Beauty and the Beast” director Bill Condon also revealed that Gaston’s buddy LeFou, played by Josh Gad, will be shown questioning his feelings for his friend, played by Luke Evans.

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[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. Graham go boycott Disney uselessly while we investigate Trump & GOP treason to stop it & correct it.

[Metro135]

31. I guess it would be OK with Franklin Graham

if Disney had a character who was a pussy-grabber.

[luvMIdog]

2. So sad people like him are such horrible role models for children- Indoctrination & brainwashing

They provide their children with such a myopic view of humanity

[brush]

32. Why is this Graham such an a-hole? Is it just me or is Graham 2.0 definitely not...

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and improvement over the original?

[jack69]

60. His lust for money and power. Just like his butt buddy.

[Fritz Walter]

3. Good!

This means that the Disney theme parks won't be crowded with as many RWNJs as before. My barkeep is headed to Disney World this weekend -- when he gets back, I'll ask him if Disney Springs (formerly Downtown Disney) is any different.

The cinema won't have as many rude fucks in the audience at Disney/Pixar movies.

Disney merchandise will be marked down.

WIN - WIN - WIN!

[TlalocW]

5. I like your optimism

But I doubt if Franklin's hissy fit will have an appreciable difference on Disney. Is there that much a difference between 20,000 at Disneyworld versus 19,900?

TlalocW

[Scarsdale]

41. Attn Frankie

I have NEVER has a homosexual person come ringing my doorbell, trying to convert me or sell me literature. Maybe some of the "holier-than-thou" people should take a leaf out of their book? Also, name ONE who makes a living grifting donations from people, instead of getting a real J_O_B. Franklin is just running the family business, not a true believer, just a hanger-on to daddy's coat tails. I wonder how his two private planes are running these days?

[nycbos]

13. More likely it will increase traffic.

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When anti gay bigots announce they are going to boycott something sales of the product often go up

[christx30]

29. You're right. My wife is a HUGE

Beauty & the Beast fan. "They'd better not %%^% it up or I'm going to be pissed." It's adorable to see her point out minor things and get angry about them.
When we go, I'm going to buy an extra ticket and dedicate it to Mr. Graham. I'll even be nice enough to send him a picture if our 3 tickets. Popcorn is on him though.

[SticksnStones]

4. Of course he does.

And good luck with that.

Boycotting Disney over one gay thing or another has been tried countless times before.

Last time I checked, the gates are still opened each morning.

But it is a heck of a fund raiser for ol' Franklin now, isn't it?

[nolabels]

36. I almost kinda hope that they do......

but it really wouldn't be fair for children who might lean one way or the other in later life.

It would be cool because if you saw the lines at the Disney Parks in California even a 5% reduction in the lines would make a better ticket. Prices to get in the place have increased exponentially and they still keep coming in droves

[sinkingfeeling]

6. Today's Arkansas Hate-Gazette says Bentonville school cancelled

planned field trip for 3rd. graders to see film. Some parents objected, so all 192 kids can't attend. Why didn't they just allow those who objected to pull their kids out and let the rest go? Answer: it's Bentonville, a RW haven opposed to everything that's diverse.

[yardwork]

7. This is how the little kids get brainwashed all over the country.

By the time they grow up, they will be completely unaware of a larger world and culture. They will wonder why the rest of the world is so strange and frightening. And they will blame their problems on liberals and those "other" people. And they will vote accordingly.

[sinkingfeeling]

10. Absolutely. This area is full of 'Christain' day care and pre-kindergarten

places, with names like God's Kingdom Day Care.

[Turbineguy]

28. If you want the get them to vote republican

you have to start the brain flush early.

[Scarsdale]

43. Opposed

to education and reality, too!! Trying to shield kids from the real world is a BIG mistake. Fostering hatred for people who are not just like them is so wrong. Kids accept others if they are left to their own actions. They have no idea what their parents are raving on about. To them it is a movie. Why do these so-called Christian types HAVE to have a group to hate on, constantly. Could it be that they see themselves in the group they are trying to shame?

[The Sand Reckoner]

8. Yes, please

keep all of the god-botherers and their kids out of Disney movies, Disney stores and away from Disney Theme parks. It will make for a much better experience for the rest of us.

[azureblue]

9. Hey Frankie!

Do you eat pork? Do you eat Shrimp, crab or lobster? Do you frequent places that serve or sell shellfish and pork? Then you are a SINNER! The Bible expressly forbids this, and yet you knowingly turn your back on the Holy Word of God and willingly and wontonly SIN! I bet you eat bacon almost every morning! SINNER! And eating pork and shellfish is a greater sin, yet you do not speak out against that, do you? Face it Frankie, you're an asshole....

[Tanuki]

11. His support for Trump after accepting a $100k donation from

Trump's phony-baloney "charity foundation" shows exactly where his moral compass is pointed.

[dalton99a]

12. Yep.

[GWC58]

20. I guess this means

Graham is okay with "pussy grabbing."

[azureblue]

22. Sure he is

There is no commandment in the Bible that forbids pussy grabbing, so it must be OK for Frankie..

[Tanuki]

27. Only if it's grabbed by a Republican. They get a special dispensation.

[MurrayDelph]

50. I do not wontonly sin

Only because I don't like shrimp I my wontons.

I have, however, been know to eat a bacon cheeseburger during Passover (three-and-a-half wanton sins in one meal)

[treestar]

14. So he accuses of pushing agenda

When he does that too. The usual hypocrisy.

[Gothmog]

15. I am looking forward to this movie

[mountain grammy]

16. Every time Franklin Graham speaks, an angel vomits.

[Blue_Adept]

17. My gay teen says fuck you

and so do I, Graham.

[SCVDem]

18. What will really hurt Disney USA

is the drop in tourism due to the Draconian foreign policy of the fuehrer.

As for religions which foment hate and division, they should all ask themselves: Is this what Jesus would do?

Isn't tRump and all his gold trappings just symbolism for the gold cow. How did that work out?

[paleotn]

19. American taliban raises its ugly head once again...

His father was a tricky dick fan and hated Catholics and Jews. Probably still does, the old fucker. The whole graham empire is nothing but a hate group. I despise their very existence.

[keithbvadu2]

39. "and hated Catholics and Jews"

Franklin (and Billy) Graham say Mormons are not Christians

According to them, Catholics are not Christians either.

https://billygraham.org/decision-magazine/october-2012/can-an-evangelical-christian-vote-for-a-mormon/

"We need something like what Jerry Falwell did in the 1980s. We need a “moral majority”—made up of Christians, Jews, Mormons, Catholics and many others of faith—to come together to take a stand for our religious freedoms and rights."

[paleotn]

42. They're heads of a hate group,

bent on societal and governmental domination through their tin horned, religion. I grew up on this bullshit....Catholics are bent on world domination by the Pope...Mormons are a cult...etc. etc., ad nauseam. As a youngster, I came to the realization that they were pots calling kettles black and their real intent was forcing THEIR particular brand of bullshit on everyone else.

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/17/us/billy-graham-responds-to-lingering-anger-over-1972-remarks-on-jews.html

http://www.nytimes.com/1992/10/31/us/beliefs-627392.html

[salin]

21. AKA it's Fund Raising Time!

Graham knows Disney isn't going to change. They have been there, done that. This is about "Outrage" letters requesting support to "Fight Disney". All about fleecing the flock.

[Missn-Hitch]

38. Yep. My sister began intercepting envelopes from my Mom going to these types.

She was very low income and didn't have the money to donate to nonsense like this. I was surprised and grateful to her for doing this. I would have done the same thing.

[GWC58]

54. Money well spent on the

needs of your mom, not some hokey tv preacher!

[Blue Idaho]

23. Swimming Against the Tide

Heading to obscurity...

[turbinetree]

24. I can still remember is "father" walking into the white house

during the Watergate crime spree that the head mastermind authorized, and he Graham Sr. was asking everyone to pray for Nixon, FU

And as for his kid, F and the horse you road in on.

Your something else, your trying to have it both ways, not happening, I and millions of others want to ask your worthiness, did you ask this sexual predator for forgiveness, for being a serial sexual predator.

Did you other two "family values" hypocrites on the clown show and clown car condemn this ass****------------me thinks not, when you "had" your meeting of reflection with him to look into his bigoted, racist, narcissistic, psychopathic, megalomaniacs , authoritarian, xenophobic, misogynistic, LYING heart.

And now you come out from again from the rock, to put your dogma out for the masses, when you have nothing, but shame for being a lackey to some f***king cause of imparting your morality values onto everyone, because of what Disney did and is doing on treating HUMAN BEINGS EQUAL. Go back under your rock. Think I may travel to Disney for the day.

So lets all go back and remember what you and others have said and your "dogma"

And as for the new face over at MSNBC, good "old" Greta who now has a show called "Just For the Record at MSNBC, let's go back to your Faux News baggage of hypocrisy, and how is just that, hypocrisy.
So let's remind everyone on how you treat this "guy" and the other lackey's, when you were beholden to Rupert and his gang

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2016/10/08/evangelist-franklin-graham-i-wont-endorse-donald-trump-but-hell-still-get-my-vote/

[Historic NY]

25. LOL guess where I am....

[TBA]

26. Yay!!! Shorter lines a Disney World!!!

[Adrahil]

33. Fewer dimwitted rednecks at Disney would be nice.... NT

[guillaumeb]

30. Translation:

Franklin Graham is desperate for attention and relevance.

[AngryAmish]

34. He is in good company

[FarPoint]

35. Screw him...

My family is leaving for Disney tomorrow..Our little one just got her nails done for the trip. She is 2 1/2...

[Scarsdale]

45. Have a GREAT time.

Excited kids will be so happy.

[FarPoint]

49. Out little Harper...

She loves Mickey.... Loves Disney World... Loves Disney on Ice too..

[erpowers]

37. What About the Beast Man?

Someone needs to ask Franklin Graham what he thinks about the beast man, a human female falling in love with him, and then the two kissing. Seriously, a human female also kisses a beast man in that movie. So, should families have boycotted the movie because of the kiss between the beast man and the human female?

[Scarsdale]

46. Nah

Maybe that is called "family values" down there!!

[keithbvadu2]

40. When he gets out of prison, they can send their sons camping with Dennis Hastert.

When he gets out of prison, they can send their sons camping with Dennis Hastert.

And send their daughters to intern with Trump.

[Scarsdale]

47. Hastert

Will be broke from paying his bribes, so the parents will not find him attractive at all.

[Renew Deal]

44. I think most people will be happy with this news

[muriel_volestrangler]

48. Mother Russia is listening:

Beauty and the Beast: Russia considers ban over 'gay moment'

Russian officials are coming under pressure to check if Disney's new film Beauty and the Beast breaches the country's law against "gay propaganda".

One MP described it as "shameless propaganda of sin" and Culture Minister Vladimir Medinsky said action would be taken after the checks.
...
A Russian law prohibits the spreading of "gay propaganda" among minors.

The 2013 legislation, which angered human rights activists and the international gay community, suggests that homosexuality - described as "non-traditional sexual relations" - is alien to life in Russia.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-39168153

It's heartwarming to see that Franklin Graham's ideal society is authoritarian Russia, isn't it?

[HopeAgain]

51. Radical Christian Fundamentalist

No more Christian than Bin Laden was Muslim.

[GulfCoast66]

61. We do not get off that easy.

I thought so myself until I finally realized they are all the same...

Bin Laden is Muslim.

Franklin is Christian.

When you claim they do not interpret God's intents as you believe, you are doing the exact same thing they do. Only in a way that makes you feel better.

[RKP5637]

52. Get a life, Franklin Graham. Go spread your hatred elsewhere. n/t

[N77VG]

53. Has Jerry Foulball risen from the pit of hell to

bother us again?

[texasfiddler]

55. This is too good

My Christian Right Trump loving Mother and Father in law are paying for my family and in-laws to go to Disney. It was their idea. I don't really care for Disney, but this makes it better.

[Dawson Leery]

56. Frankie and his Anti-Semite Daddy

need to take a long spiritual walk off a short cliff.

[sarcasmo]

57. My new play. Republican Jesus and the Gays.

[JI7]

58. why couldn't they have a pussy grabbing character ?

Then they would go watch as it represented their values.

[tammywammy]

59. I hope it goes as well as their prior boycotts.

Disney must be shaking in their boots. Lol.