Franklin Graham blasts bathroom siege by 'depraved sexual activists'
Governor vows immediate action to thwart city leaders
Published: 18 hours ago
Renowned Christian leader Franklin Graham, chief of Samaritan’s Purse and the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, on Tuesday blasted the city council in Charlotte, N.C., where the BGEA has its headquarters, for adopting a new ordinance that “would allow people to use the bathroom of their choice.”
“It’s not over though,” he reported on his Facebook page. “North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory has been clear that this is a bad policy and said if the city passed it, immediate legislative action would likely be taken by the state.”
Graham wrote, “I hope they will take swift action to strike down this dangerous ordinance or bring it to a referendum for voters to decide. If this were put to a vote in Charlotte, I’m sure it would be overwhelmingly defeated by Democrats and Republicans alike.”
The local Observer newspaper reported that McCrory’s warning had come just before the vote, where he told two members of the city council their approval of the plan would “most likely cause immediate state legislative intervention.”
The dispute is developing all across the country as homosexual, lesbian and transgender activists demand “equality” by being allowed to choose the public restroom that they want to use, based on their own feelings.
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That means they want legal permission, and, in fact, legal protection, for a man who says he feels like he’s a woman to be allowed to use a women’s restroom or locker room facility, even if it violates the privacy of women or young girls who also may be there.
A number of cities have adopted such requirements, but perhaps the highest profile fight over the issue was in Houston, where a lesbian mayor’s plan was defeated by voters after a months-long fight led by a coalition of pastors and others.
In Charlotte, Monday night’s vote was 7-4 for the open restrooms plan.
“Shame on Charlotte Mayor Jennifer Roberts and the city council members,” Franklin wrote. He said the ordinance “would allow people to use the bathroom of their choice, not based on their biological sex.”
He praised council members Ed Driggs, Claire Fallon, Greg Phipps and Kenny Smith “for having the courage to do the right thing and vote NO.”
Just ahead of the vote, he said, “It’s hard to believe that such a ludicrous law would even be seriously considered – and even harder to believe that at least 8 of 11 council members have said they would vote for it!”
“Are people just not thinking clearly? This law would allow pedophiles, perverts and predators into women’s bathrooms. This is wicked and it’s filthy. To think that my granddaughters could go into a restroom and a man be in there exposing himself … what are we setting our children and grandchildren up for? There’s not a public restroom in Charlotte that would be safe!”
He said it should be inconceivable that Charlotte’s mayor and the council members “have succumbed to the pressures from depraved sexual activists and are willing to put women and girls at risk like this.”
He pointed out that the same plan was defeated a year ago and it shouldn’t even have been brought back by the mayor.
“Shame on her. This is why it is so important that Christians get involved in the political process across our country by running for office and by voting. What a difference it could make if we had more city council members and mayors who were willing to stand up for morality and biblical principles for our cities and communities.”
McCrory said the transgender provisions opening up public restrooms to all is a concern.
“It is not only the citizens of Charlotte that will be impacted by changing basic restroom and locker room norms but also citizens from across our state and nation who visit and work in Charlotte,” the government said. “This shift in policy could also create major public safety issues by putting citizens in possible danger from deviant actions by individuals taking improper advantage of a bad policy.”
He said he would expect immediate state legislative intervention, and said he would support it.
WND reported only a few weeks ago that the coalition of pastors that defeated Houston Mayor Annise Parker’s transgender agenda at the ballot box were volunteering to help pastors in Dallas in the same fight.
Other cities, from Oregon to Maryland, under pressure of homosexual, lesbian and transgender activists, already have made the jump to open their public restrooms.
One of the key leaders in the Houston fight, Rev. Dave Welch, president of the Texas Pastor Council, said the change “not only opens but essentially removes the doors of women’s restrooms, showers and locker rooms.”
The Houston fight lasted nearly two years and ended late in 2015 when citizens, who were allowed to vote over the mayor’s objections and only by order of the state Supreme Court, soundly rejected Parker’s agenda, 62 percent to 38 percent.
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Citizens already are working, under the banner of the North Carolina Values Coalition, to fight the special provisions designed to benefit transgenders.
Graham also recently noted that the South Dakota legislature adopted a plan that would simply have students in public schools use the restroom of their biological sex – a plan still awaiting the governor’s signature.
“Who would’ve thought just a couple of years ago that a law would be needed to enforce something as basic as this? I think it’s a wise step of protection and applaud the state legislature for their boldness,” he wrote.
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