Televangelist Rev. Billy Graham has died at his home at the age of 99, according to a spokesman.
Here's an illuminating piece on Graham's views of gay people:
In 1974, when a young woman wrote to the famous evangelist about her sexual love for another woman, Graham immediately replied with a hellish threat: Homosexual perverts, with their “ungodly spirit of self-gratification,” will not inherit the kingdom of heaven.
“[L]et me say this loud and clear!” he added. “We traffic in homosexuality at the peril of our spiritual welfare.” (That position was no surprise to Graham's minions: Several years earlier he had described homosexuality as “a sinister form of perversion” contributing to the decay of civilization.)
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