Billy Graham’s son Franklin: Gay lifestyle is ‘a sin,’ and ‘I want to warn people’
In a Meet the Press interview Sunday, Franklin Graham , the son of famed preacher Billy Graham , refused to back down from his Biblical stance against homosexuality. “It’s sin,” he said, and added that he wanted to warn people about it because they will have to stand before God who will judge. The younger Graham was speaking in the NBC interview about his father’s legacy, as the elder Graham, 95, is ‘very weak’ and eating little. He described how he helped to arrange a final sermon for his father that aired in November. He felt it was God’s will that he help his father “finish well.” In the context of about Pope Francis’ “who am I to judge” comment, Franklin Graham was asked if he would shift his position on “gays.” “God would have to shift, and God doesn't,” Graham replied. “God's word is the same yesterday and today and a million years from now, that it's sin.” “To wink at sin, and to tell somebody that it's okay, I know the consequences of what will happen one d