{"id":11661,"date":"2020-01-28T11:19:25","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T16:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=11661"},"modified":"2020-01-28T11:19:25","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T16:19:25","slug":"graham-draws-fire-in-u-k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=11661","title":{"rendered":"Graham draws fire in U.K."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is fun.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=11658\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yesterday<\/a>, I linked to a story about a venue in Liverpool, England, that cancelled an appearance by Franklin Graham.<\/p>\n<p>What do you know?  Now, an activist group is calling upon <i>all<\/i> venues in England to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/thousands-sign-petition-stop-donald-trump-ally-franklin-graham-speaking-london-1484246\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">refuse to host Graham<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>More than 8,000 people have signed a petition calling on event organizers in Britain to cancel an event that would see Trump ally and anti-LGBT+ preacher Franklin Graham appear in London this year as part of a planned tour across Britain.<\/p>\n<p>[ &#8230; ]<\/p>\n<p>As of late Monday morning, just over 8,300 people had signed the petition, which has been addressed to Alex Hill, the chief executive and president of AEG Europe.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Graham is a <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">hate preacher<\/span>. His message is deeply divisive, encourages violence has been condemned by UK Christian leaders,&#8221; the letter states.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Graham is not a hate-preacher; <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Faithful_Word_Baptist_Church\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Steven Anderson<\/a> is a hate-preacher.  I do think, though, that Graham is too unintelligent to recognize how degrading Christian teaching actually is at its core &#8212; with the result that, like most preachers, he has unknowingly dedicated his life to harming others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is fun. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=11661\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11661"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11662,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11661\/revisions\/11662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}