As Russian troops patrol the Crimean peninsula and mass along the eastern border of Ukraine, Franklin Graham has been catching some flak for invidiously comparing Vladimir Putin’s protection of Russian children from gay “propaganda” to America’s embrace of same-sex marriage. He was, Graham assured Charlotte Observer reporter Tim Funk, behaving no differently than his father, “who he said took unpopular but moral stands in his prime against racial segregation and communism.”
My father never worried about polls. I don’t care about them, either. And with the issues we are facing today – if my father were a younger man, he would be addressing and speaking out in the exact same way I’m speaking out on them.
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