Posted on 06/28/2015 9:22:50 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
President Obama is calling the Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage a "victory for America," but the Rev. Franklin Graham warns Obama is leading the nation on a sinful course and "God will judge him and us as a nation if we don't repent."
At a Gay Pride event in the White House prior to the court ruling this week, Obama said, "There has been an incredible shift in attitudes across the country," and he was right, Graham wrote in a post on his Facebook page.
"But it is definitely not a shift for the good of America. The shift in attitudes he refers to is the moral decline we are seeing manifest daily around us," Graham, who leads the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, wrote.
"Accepting wrong as right—accepting sin as something to be proud of. Yes, that's definitely a shift. Should we be surprised that he thanked the LGBT community for all that they had helped him accomplish during his time as president?" Graham added, noting that Obama said, "A lot of what we've accomplished over these last six and a half years has been because of you."
Obama also boasted about the fact that there were two states where gay marriage was legal when he took office, but now there are 37. "The President is leading this nation on a sinful course, and God will judge him and us as a nation if we don't repent," Graham concluded.
The Supreme Court ruled Friday by a 5-to-4 vote that the Constitution guarantees a right to gay marriage.
"No longer may this liberty be denied," Justice Anthony M. Kennedy wrote for the majority in the decision. "No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice and family. In forming a marital union, two people become something greater than once they were."
Obama called the decision a "victory for America."
"When all Americans are treated as equal we are all more free," he said.
Graham earlier warned that freedom of speech, press and religion will suffer greatly in Canada since it began federally mandating same-sex marriage in 2005, the Rev. Franklin America if same-sex marriage is legalized across America, just as it happened in neighboring Canada.
"[In Canada] If you say or write anything questioning same-sex marriage, you could face discipline, termination of employment, or prosecution by the government!" Graham wrote in a recent post.
"We need to realize that if our Supreme Court makes same-sex marriage the law in the United States, we will be in the same boat," he added, asking, "Will the next step be to ban us from speaking God's truth from His Word about this issue?"
My agreement with Rev. Graham is foursquare. I believe that even those who are supporting this instinctively know that it is wrong. I do not understand how so many can salute evil and call it good.
Yes, that will be the next step. Churches will be brought up on charges if they continue to preach against sin.
AMEN!! God Bless Reverend Graham, he hit the nail. As I have said many times Christians will be persecuted. This nation will not be safe for Christians nor Jews. We are now seeing the domino effect but in increments.
There is nothing new under the sun when it comes to sin. However when Society embraces it and says ok...Then God’s wrath will fall upon that society.
Thank God for Franklin Graham and his courage to speak the truth.
—”When all Americans are treated as equal we are all more free,” he(0bama) said.—
No, genius. When you and the rest of your liberal busybodies leave us the eff alone, THEN we are all more free.
When God removes himself as King, and gives a people over to "do what is right in their own eyes" you get the coarsest most repressive, ugly, dangerous society imaginable, if not outright conquest and captivity. There's a hard rain gonna fall brothers and sisters. The big question for me is, "how then shall we live" as Christians in the face of this? How do we respond and deal with world without withdrawing from it completely yet still remaining the salt and light God would have us be? I believe this will be the central question Christians have to deal with in coming days and the answer may well cost us our lives.
Maybe Franklin Graham could teach why adam’s sin led to the cursing of the ground and why eve’s sin has to do with reproduction.
A little more x rated discussion of what deviant sexual sins really went down in the garden is needed.
Unless believers can’t connect adam and eve’s righteous ‘punishments’ to their crime..
I can see some radical Gay demanding Rev. Graham be compelled to marry him to his boyfriend.
That is coming Gays can be very obnoxious.
RE: Maybe Franklin Graham could teach why adam’s sin led to the cursing of the ground and why eve’s sin has to do with reproduction.
Here’s the problem as I see it... schools are teaching evolution as fact.
If you accept that, then who the heck is Adam, and what the heck is Eden, the Serpent and the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil?
Righteousness exalts a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people... Proverbs 14:34
Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be done to him... Isaiah 3:11
For sure! No other evangelical pastor or public figure has dared to come to the forefront and denounce Obama because they are cowards.
What has happened to all the evanglicals in this country anyway? Are they in hiding? asleep at the switch or have they been chloroformed , subdued and brainwashed by the msm they watch?
I agree mostly but this is not a dictator ran country, it is supposed to be a constitutional republic.
But the word Democracy was excepted which it should not have been and paved the way for what ever people wants they will get, and they want socialism.
Which is nothing but a free ride to hell.
Socialism was the force behind Nazism, communism and every other kind of evil we have saw since I was born yet people will not see it as it really is.
We have just what this Christian nation voted for.
Blaming Obama is just like voting for a hog that rooted up the garden.
The SCOTUS may have the ability to make it but they can’t make it RIGHT.
Blaming Obama is just like voting for a hog that rooted up the garden. not voting but blaming.
What is wrong with you?
No, it's not needed. That's really twisted to think that discussing that is going to solve anything.
Don't bother trying to get your jollies on FR with THAT kind of discussion going. Take it over to DU where they'd probably be happy to comply.
It's enough for us to know that they disobeyed God's command and what the consequences were and what we need to deal with for ourselves now.
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SLAVERY IS FREEDOM
The fear of losing their tax exempt status keeps them muzzled.
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