Baptist Minister Paul Brandeis Raushenbush claims Franklin Graham 'doesn't love' LGBT people after Bishop Budde criticism of President Trump.

Christian Post ^ | 02/03/2025

[SeekAndFind]

The Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush accused evangelist Franklin Graham last week of being someone who "does not love the LGBTQ community" after the Samaritan's Purse CEO criticized Episcopal Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde's recent rebuke of President Donald Trump.

Raushenbush, an ordained Baptist minister who serves as president and CEO of Interfaith Alliance, also suggested Graham pales in comparison with his father, the late Rev. Billy Graham.

During the Jan. 29 episode of C-SPAN's "Washington Journal," host John McArdle asked Raushenbush to respond to a clip of Graham on "Piers Morgan Uncensored," during which Graham excoriated the bishop of Washington for "mixing the LGBTQ+ agenda, along with the immigrants," when she rebuked Trump to his face from the pulpit of the National Cathedral during the Jan. 21 inaugural service.

'She took advantage of that national pulpit for her own personal agenda - and that was wrong."

Rev Franklin Graham reacts to Bishop Mariann Budde's Washington sermon

???? https://t.co/mnncKBm0X3@piersmorgan | @Franklin_Grahampic.twitter.com/i16dxkjqbn— Piers Morgan Uncensored (@PiersUncensored) January 22, 2025

"She took advantage of that national pulpit for her own personal agenda, and that was wrong," Graham said.

Raushenbush, who is the great-grandson of former Associate Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, pushed back against Graham and suggested he was also using his national platform to promote his own agenda.

"He's using his pulpit right now to say something about how he feels about what Bishop Budde said," Raushenbush noted. "Bishop Budde was in the cathedral, the National Cathedral. She is the bishop of the National Cathedral. It was her pulpit. She was speaking the gospel."

Raushenbush, who identifies as gay and is married to a man, went on to suggest that Graham possesses animosity toward LGBT-identified individuals and that Trump is hurting the trans community especially.

"Trans people are feeling unsafe," Raushenbush said. "For Franklin Graham, who actually does not love the LGBTQ community, and who has said terrible things about the Muslim community and other things — let me say: Franklin Graham is no Billy Graham."

Despite Raushenbush's implication that Franklin Graham is at odds with his father, Franklin's views on sexuality echo those of Billy Graham, who maintained throughout his ministry that homosexuality is sinful.

During a 1980 interview with Paul Harvey at his home in Montreat, North Carolina, Harvey asked Graham, "Is homosexuality a sin?"

"Yes," Graham replied simply.

Raushenbush went on to suggest during his C-SPAN interview that Trump is harming both immigrants and trans-identified people, suggesting that the president's recent executive order, titled "Protecting Children From Chemical And Surgical Castration," has made "trans children" and their families feel unsafe.

"I know parents of trans children who have had to move away from their state because they could not provide the care for their children that their children required," he said. "This is government saying we don't want you to love your child. We're going to tell you how to love your child. This is overreach of government."

Raushenbush also suggested the idea of religious freedom is being unfairly co-opted by conservatives.

"A lot of times conservatives use the term 'religious freedom,' but it's always religious freedom for me, not for thee," he said. "And so, let's go back to the idea that everyone deserves religious freedom for whatever tradition you're in, including ... the many, many people in America who are not religious, but who deserve every bit of freedom to live their life as any religious person."

Raushenbush — who is also the great-grandson of clergyman Walter Rauschenbusch, who promoted the Social Gospel in the 19th century — has been outspoken regarding his feeling that he is among "a targeted community" under Trump because he is gay.

During an interview with Salon published last December, Raushenbush claimed religion in the U.S. is at "a moment where [it] is again being used as a pretext for subjugation and discrimination."

Budde, who received a glowing write-up in The Washington Post on Monday, has received mixed reactions for her sermon last month, with some arguing she politicized a religious service while others asserting she courageously spoke truth to power.

Rob Pacienza, senior pastor at Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, attended the service and was among Budde's critics, saying in a recent interview with The Christian Post that he believed it "wasn't really a sermon" but rather "a lecture that really came across as mean and divisive."

Conservative commentator Mark Steyn recently accused Budde of being "a tool of Satan" for claiming from the pulpit that "transgender children" exist.

"Some may think there is, and a confused 8-year-old boy or 11-year-old girl may think there is. But what it boils down to is you, the bishop, supporting slicing off the breasts of middle school girls. That makes you, the bishop, a tool of Satan. So you should be on a roasting spit in Hell for promoting that."

[dfwgator]

More wolves in sheeps clothing revealed.

[BenLurkin]

Does this guy have source of income in the immigration racket?

[HYPOCRACY]

Check this guy’s computers.

[alstewartfan]

Stake through the heart of Rev. Graham. He must be devastated, trying to count wolves to fall asleep at night. 😭

[TTFlyer]

False prophet.

[SaveFerris]

(accused evangelist Franklin Graham last week of being someone who "does not love the LGBTQ community)

Franklin Graham CORRECTLY does NOT pander to "the LGBTQ+ community" because to do so would violate God's Holy Word in Romans chapter 1.

They MUST turn away from this evil or be Reprobate.

Reject the Satanic lies that the Democrats are spreading.

The Democrats are the face of Godless Reprobate agendas.

What Democrat Manchurian Candidate Barack Hussein Obama and friends shamelessly promote

Rainbow White House happened on June 26, 2015



There is a determined effort to normalize this all over the world. I'm encouraging people not to attend nor support this stuff. 

NO VIOLENCE suggested nor implied, of course. Do NO harm, Christians.

The Days of Lot are upon us.

Just as prophesied in the New Testament by Jesus Christ Himself:

[the_Watchman]

who “does not love the LGBTQ community”

The maxim is hate the sin, but love the sinner. According to this article, we should love the community of thieves. This is clearly a non-Biblical position.

Instead, we should be willing to love individuals who identify as LGBTQ.

[Danie_2023]

“The Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush accused evangelist Franklin Graham last week of being someone who “does not love the LGBTQ community” after the Samaritan’s Purse CEO criticized Episcopal Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde’s recent rebuke of President Donald Trump.”

Conversely, the LGBTQ community apparently does not love God.

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

(From the article) :" Episcopal Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde's recent rebuke of President Donald Trump".

The rebuke took place during a religious service to commemorate the civil service of a deceased President; to publicly pontificate there was totally inappropriate.
We are religiously taught by Christ to "love the sinner, but hate the sin".
This was nothing more than an purposely public effort to publicly humiliate President Trump.
If I was him at that time, I probably would have left the religious service; but Trump has too much poise, charisma, and charity.
Episcopal Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde is an embarrassment, and her public actions were beneath even a lay attendee.

[sauropod]

bkmk

[SaveFerris]

[hinckley buzzard]

Raushenbush sounds very confused. He seems to think homosexuality is a religious issue. Or something.

[Fido969]

He’s ABC. Just calling him a baptist is confusing and ultimately misleading.

[Tennessee Nana]

God doesnt love them

Argue with God about that...

[rdcbn1]

We are living Isaiah 5:20

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Franklin responded, "Kiss my arse, MOFO".

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Famous Progressive lineage.

An ordained Baptist minister in the American Baptist tradition, Raushenbush is the great-grandson of 19th-century Baptist cleric and Social Gospel proponent Walter Rauschenbusch (name spelled differently). He is also the great-grandson of Supreme Court Justice, Louis D. Brandeis and cousin of Richard Rorty.

He is a graduate of Macalester College and Union Theological Seminary in New York. He is married to the author Brad Gooch, and they have two children.

[MachIV]

“She was speaking the gospel.”

No she was not.

[Mark17]

“She was speaking the gospel.”

No she was not.

You are correct sir, definitely NOT.