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Blackpool Council to Pay Out £109k Over Axed Franklin Graham Festival Adverts [UK]
Christian Today ^ | 7/16/21 | Staff

Posted on 07/20/2021 6:27:07 PM PDT by marshmallow

The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association is to receive £109,000 from Blackpool Council over cancelled adverts for an evangelistic event featuring its CEO, Franklin Graham.

Adverts for the 2018 Lancashire Festival of Hope ran on local buses but were removed because of Graham's traditional views on marriage. It followed a social media campaign by local LGBT activists.

But the council has admitted it was in the wrong and agreed to pay the festival's legal costs, totalling £84,000, and another £25,000 in damages.

The settlement was reached after an April ruling from Manchester County Court that, in removing the ads, Blackpool Council and Blackpool Transport Services violated the Equality Act and the Human Rights Act.

After reaching the settlement, Cllr Lynn Williams, Leader of Blackpool Council, issued an apology in which she said lessons had been learned.

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1 posted on 07/20/2021 6:27:07 PM PDT by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow
But the council has admitted it was in the wrong and agreed to pay the festival's legal costs

Yes...they did it because they had an epiphany and realized the errors of their ways suddenly!

2 posted on 07/20/2021 6:30:38 PM PDT by gr8eman (A man who only talks business is a failure in all aspects of life- Camino Del Rio)
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To: marshmallow

The hits against the Graham family are by the National Council of Churches, founded and funded by the Jew atheist G Soros.


3 posted on 07/20/2021 6:33:19 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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How can you be a Jew and an Atheist at the same time? (scratching head)


4 posted on 07/20/2021 7:36:07 PM PDT by gr8eman (A man who only talks business is a failure in all aspects of life- Camino Del Rio)
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One can be born a Jew.

What they make of it is up to them.

Just as many Jews in the USA are anti Israel.

Soros was born a Jew.

He is a atheist.

5 posted on 07/20/2021 7:45:06 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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then he’s not a Jew


6 posted on 07/20/2021 8:26:42 PM PDT by gr8eman (A man who only talks business is a failure in all aspects of life- Camino Del Rio)
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To: gr8eman
Being Jewish is also a racial designation. If your DNA can be traced to Jacob, you are a Jew. What you do and what you believe is as diverse as any Gentile.

Biblically speaking you will follow the Torah unless you are an atheist or an Idolater.

The Bible says "All Israel will be saved." What is spoken of here goes back to Jacob blessing his children in Gen 49. Joseph was his favorite son so Jacob adopted his 2 Gentile grandchildren so they could get a promised inheritance also. Joseph placed Manasseh under Jacob's right hand as he was the oldest and placed Ephraim under his left hand. Jacob crossed his hands over to Ephraim being under his right hand and Manasseh under his left. Joseph tried to correct Jacob, but Jacob corrected Joseph saying he knew what he was doing. Jacob adopted Joseph's Gentile children under the "sign of the cross" to receive an inheritance God had promised Israel,( Jacob's God given name.) This is how Gentiles get adopted into God's family. An adopted Gentile is now brothers with "Israel's children. Antisemitism is the spirit of Antichrist. You can only come through the cross. If you are not adopted, you have no inheritance. A saved Gentile is now a son of God as Jacob's children are. A Jew that doesn't follow his Messiah is not a Jew in the Spiritual sense. All "SPIRITUAL" Israel will be saved. Anyone else is a beast made for slaughter. "Beasts of the field" are demonic in the Bible Spiritual language. If you read Daniel, Nebuchadnezzar was given the heart of a beast for 7 years. At the end of the 7 years it is said he received the heart of a man. He glorified Jehovah the rest of his days so he was now a man and not a beast. If you don't belong to God, you are made to be slaughtered, and burn on an altar so your smoke will rise up to His nostrils as a sacrifice. A Man, "ADAM" will have a heart for God and be made a son of God for you have been born of the Spirit. (God is Spirit)

7 posted on 07/20/2021 10:56:24 PM PDT by chuckles
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To: marshmallow
Adverts for the 2018 Lancashire Festival of Hope ran on local buses but were removed because of Graham's traditional views on marriage. It followed a social media campaign by local LGBT activists.

But the council has admitted it was in the wrong and agreed to pay the festival's legal costs, totalling £84,000, and another £25,000 in damages.

Now, the Council should sue the LGBT "activists" for the losses brought about by their "activism".

8 posted on 07/21/2021 1:17:27 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Love me, love my guns!)
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