Family Research Council: Cancel culture is evil (but please forget when we tried to cancel Star Wars, the Girl Scouts, Apple Computers . . .)

Editor's note - apparently Roger Severino is not happy about my post from yesterday. He blocked me on Twitter. Like I actually care. I am only writing about it to boast and to point out that his action proves my point.

Recently, the Family Research Council published a post about 'cancel culture.' In part, this is what it says:

Over the past few years, the language of “cancel culture” has become ubiquitous in our society. Social media platforms are cluttered with hashtags and campaigns urging us to “cancel” someone or declare that they are “over.” Whether the context is politics, sports, entertainment, or business, no one seems safe from the reach of the so-called cancel culture movement. However, many people are increasingly becoming wary of it. When asked about cancel culture in a recent interview, comedian Dave Chappelle quipped, “I hope we all survive it.” Chappelle’s passing comment points to a growing awareness that a movement that might have begun with good intentions has taken on a life of its own, resulting in a variety of unintended consequences. What is cancel culture? How should Christians think about the notion of “canceling” people, institutions, or ideas?

First of all, "cancel culture" is nothing new. It's merely a cute new way to describe an old practice. In my day, 'cancel culture' was known, at the least, as basic criticism and, at the most, as boycotting. 

And that makes FRC's blog post ironic and highly hypocritical, seeing that organization has made a name for itself by attempting to cancel various businesses and entities which it felt was too LGBTQ supportive.

Let's make a list, shall we. Over the years, the Family Research Council attempted to cancel

Apple Computers when its CEO, Tim Cook, came out of the closet. 

Chick-Fil-A when it was discovered that the restaurant's owners donated money to the Southern Poverty Law Center.

A Star Wars video game for including gay characters.

The Girl Scouts and girl scout cookies for supporting the LGBTQ community. FRC even pushed a prayer alert against the group.

And last but not least, the LGBTQ community in general. FRC have been attempting to cancel us from day one.

'When 'Christians' won't stop lying about transgender healthcare' & other Wed midday news briefs

 

Fetish-Induced Anti-Trans Fear Mongering - The Slowly Boiled Frog is one of my favorite blogs because of stuff like this: 

 The American Principles Project (APP) is one of the numerous extremist Catholic organizations founded by Robert P. George and Luis Tellez. (The professor and the Opus Deist). APP isn’t very principled when it comes to telling the truth. First of all, LGBTQ people are routinely denied basic medical care (see below). Secondly, sexuality — including sexuality that Schilling disapproves of — is not an ideology. Thirdly, there is no such thing as a “sex-change procedure.” Moreover, hospitals do not perform procedures. People perform procedures and hospitals, including Catholic hospitals, have complete autonomy in the extension of privileges. 

 Simple truth. You can't beat it. 

Post-Trump Fox News is a hotbed of anti-LGBTQ extremism - I once asked a question about Fox News as it slowly gained power. What could we do if this network gained a lot of power and viewers and then decided to take a very homophobic and badly slanted view of LGBTQ equality? That moment is now.

U.K. to ban LGBTQ conversion therapy and provide more support - Snap! Go U.K.! It's your birthday! Go U.K.! It's your birthday!

LGBTQ+ Parenting Pioneers Share Tips for Queer Families in Live Event - And we need more of this.

LGBTQ Americans proven right about Roger Severino. We told you he was a dishonest snake.

Former Trump appointee Roger Severino is no longer hiding his distaste and bigotry of the transgender community.

When it comes to former Trump appointee Roger Severino, I think I can speak for the LGBTQ community when I say:

We told you that SOB was a snake.

First, a little background. In 2017 when former president Donald Trump appointed Roger Severino as director of the Office of Civil Rights at Health and Human Services, many LGBTQ Americans and our allies loudly voiced our fear and disapproval. As an employee of several far right groups, Severino worked to undermine LGBTQ rights and safety on several fronts from the fight for marriage equality to the fight against the fraudulent practice of 'ex-gay therapy.'

In his new position in the Trump Administration, Severino proved our fears to be accurate as he instituted rule after rule designed to either erase LGBTQ rights in healthcare or allow healthcare workers - from doctors and nurses to ambulance drivers - to not treat us by citing their "religious freedom." Specifically, Severino was responsible for an attempt to create a rule which would roll back protections for the trans community against discrimination through Obamacare, and  a "conscience rule" which said any healthcare worker could deny services to LGBTQ people based on "moral or religious" reasons. In November 2019, three different federal courts struck down the rule and one court found that HHS exaggerated a justification for the rule. Severino was pointed out in an NPR article to have contributed to that exaggeration. 

And while doing all of this, Severino gave out lip service claiming that "discrimination has no place in healthcare" or gaslighting people into believing that the changes were to protect people's religious beliefs

But now that Trump is gone and Biden is president, Severino no longer has to "fake it," so to speak. Since losing his job at HHS, he has joined another far right think tank (Ethics and Public Policy Center) devoted to undermining LGBTQ rights and health. In doing so, Severino has embraced a nastier tone. One can see that by the tweets and retweets he sends out smearing transgender Americans.

Even though LGBTQ people knew just how dishonest he was, now it should be clear.  Severino worked specifically and deliberately to undermine and destroy LGBTQ rights when it came to healthcare. It had nothing to do with religious liberty. It was all about basic prejudice, bigotry, and an incorrect but steadfast belief that LGBTQ people, transgender Americans in particular, aren't deserving of simple and basic healthcare. 

The important thing here is not the discovery that Severino was exactly what we said he was, but finding out just who asked Trump to appoint him in the first place.

'Tucker Carlson continues to spread lies about medical care for trans youth' & other Tue midday news briefs

Tucker Carlson

Defending extreme bills, Tucker Carlson once again lies about medical care for trans youth - The overrated mediocre trust-fund baby lies about vaccines. Why should we feel left out.

More anti-LGBTQ laws have been passed in the last year than any other time in American history - We seem to be the eternal wedge issue.

Evangelical Lutheran Church Elects First Transgender Bishop - Niiice! 

‘The love of homosexuals is something good’: German Catholics to bless gay unions, defying Vatican ban - This is going to get interesting.

U.S. Will Protect Gay And Transgender People Against Discrimination In Health Care - Just in case you didn't hear.

ACLU video nails how homophobic rhetoric about children is transformed into transphobic rhetoric

From Anita Bryant's 1977 campaign to 'save  children from homosexuality' (top picture)  to today's legislative attack on transgender youth under the guise of 'saving girl's and women's sports' (bottom picture), the religious right and their allies have always hid their bigoted undermining of LGBTQ rights by falsely claiming to be "protecting" the most vulnerable.

This right here below is a 48 second history lesson which folks like myself have been trying to communicate to the public for the longest. The recent legislative attack on transgender Americans under the guise of "protecting women and children" is nothing more than a continuation of the lies the religious right and their allies used to claim that children needed to be "protected from homosexuality in the 1970s. It also illustrates that our community cannot rely on the media (and especially podcasting frauds like Joe Rogan) to do the right thing in telling the story. It's up to us and our allies to forcefully educate people on this. 

Today’s attacks on trans youth are the latest in a long line of anti-LGBTQ rhetoric focused on kids. pic.twitter.com/ngZAjsSNZi

— ACLU (@ACLU) May 10, 2021

Hat tip to the ACLU.

'Happy Mother's Day to more than 50 favorite LGBTQ+ Moms' & other Mon midday news briefs

 

Happy Mother's Day to More Than 50 of Our Favorite LGBTQ+ Moms - I love this! 

Social Media Hate Speech, Harassment 'Significant Problem' For LGBTQ Users: Report - Yep! 

Dear Adults: If You’re Not Fighting For Trans Kids’ Rights, Please Start - Amen!! 

Prospects dim for passage of LGBTQ rights bill in Senate - Gotta face reality. Regroup. And replan.

Politico - War on transgender youth becoming more of a headache than successful wedge issue for Republicans

Do not celebrate yet but according to Politico, the Republican Party was trying to create a perfectly successful wedge issue with its attack on transgender athletes. What they got is a little success but an enormous amount of public internal division:

Republicans saw a ready-made wedge issue to rally the GOP’s base when, soon after Joe Biden took office, he moved to expand protections for transgender people, including in school sports. The president and his Democratic allies, conservatives said, were ruining women’s athletics, and Republican lawmakers across the country advanced a raft of bills designed to keep transgender women and girls from playing on female teams. Yet what once promised to be a galvanizing force for the Republican Party ahead of the midterm elections and 2024 has instead devolved into a source of division within the GOP, hobbling one potential presidential contender — Kristi Noem — and pitting other Republican governors against lawmakers of their own party.

 . . . Far from a unifying new fixture in the GOP’s culture wars, the question of how to treat transgender student athletes is instead inflaming rifts within the party — and quickly becoming a litmus test for Republicans who aspire to higher office. “For those who dream about a 2024 future, starting with Kristi Noem,” said Bill McCoshen, a Wisconsin-based Republican strategist, “you don’t want to be in a position to be against your own party, which all of those governors have done so far.”

The entire article deserves a read and a share. Whatever the case may be, it looks like the GOP are relying on the same tactics of distortion which worked to galvanize its base against marriage equality during the 2004 election. But our side seems to have learned lessons from that fight. And we took those lessons to heart in terms of the messages we are sending, the stories we are telling, and the Americans (transgender youth, their families, and medical professionals) stepping up to tell those stories.

South Carolina trans community & allies speak out against bill during legislative committee meeting

On Thursday morning, South Carolina state Senators held a committee meeting to discuss a bill which would ban trans girls from playing in high school and middle school sports. A bill similar to this had already been killed five times - two being in the state House of Representatives.

But lawmakers did not take a vote because there were so many people signed up to speak about the bill. According to The State:

A panel of senators on the Education Committee heard about two hours of testimony on the bill Thursday before deciding to come back in the summer to take up the issue again. Lawmakers did not take a vote on the bill, sponsored by Sen. Richard Cash, R-Anderson.

 I should mention the proponents of the bill and what they said, but why bother. You know who they are - legislators supporting the bill and a person from the local "traditional values for moral integrity blah blah blah" group who repeat the same lying talking points about the so-called unfairness to cis female athletes (without any proof, mind you.)

The real story are those who came out against the bill. These folks did not come to play Here are just a few of those who spoke:

'Country duo graciously responds to Republican who blocked honor for gay singer' & other Thur midday news briefs

Brothers Osborne

Country Duo Graciously Responds To Republican Who Blocked Honor For Gay Singer - I support how they are handling this.

Florida Republican gets slammed by her own daughter: Kids' lives are at stake - Oop! 

‘Queer Love in Color’: Photo book celebrates diverse LGBTQ relationships - Sweet!

State Department expresses concern over anti-LGBTQ bill in Uganda - Uganda is messing with again, y'all.

Transphobic author Abigail Shrier reveals her true face with tweet about serial killer

Abigail Shrier

I've written about Abigail Shrier several times. She is the author of Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters, a book which makes negative and false claims about transgender people, particularly transgender youth.

As you can guess, the book is highly controversial, with Shrier basking in all of the infamy and attention. She has also skillfully exploited recent controversies to make it seem that she is a victim of censorship. To hear her and her supporters tell it, transgender activists and others on the "left" are attempting to "cancel" her and ban her book simply because she supposedly dares to have an opinion opposite from theirs. Or because she is simply "asking questions."

The following tweet she recently sent defending her book speaks to that claim

What's so funny about this tweet is that it belies a paper trail of Shrier going on podcasts and television advancing the narrative she claims that she isn't advancing:

Joe Rogan and guest Abigail Shrier equate being trans to having anorexia, joining a cult, and “demonic possession” 

 Fox’s Tucker Carlson and guest Abigail Shrier spread medical misinformation about trans youth

Supportive parents of transgender children obviously don't count as 'real parents' to the Family Research Council

In its attacks on the transgender community, the Family Research Council is getting sloppy And by sloppy, I mean telling easily refuted lies and boldly showcasing its own hypocrisy.

First, let's talk about the lie. In blog posts on its site, FRC spins conspiracy theories about transgender people.  This particular post, To Counter The Transgender Lie, We Must Speak Truth, is a yawner much akin to what the group used to say about gays. But to me, one part stood out:

A 2011 U.S. study found that 41 percent of transgender participants reported attempting suicide in comparison to 1.6 percent of the general population. Is this because people aren’t accepting of them or because they have mental health problems the rest of the population does not? The Centre for Suicide Prevention says on its website that transgender people experience mental illness at a much higher rate than the general population. While 6.7 percent of the U.S. general population suffers from depression and 18 percent grapple with some form of anxiety, nearly half of all people who identify as transgender experience one or both of these issues. Telling these people that they should try to change every single part of their physical bodies in order to feel better is abhorrent. Their problem is not in the body, it’s in the mind.

FRC is implying that trans people have a high rate of suicide and mental illness not because of non-acceptance, but because supposedly trans people have mental health problems in general. There is just one problem with FRC's inference. Or in this case, three.  All three of the links FRC supplies specifically say that problems regarding suicide and mental illness when it comes to trans people is because of the non-acceptance of society.

The first link is the results of a survey by the National Center for Transgender Equality and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force.

The second link is a fact sheet about transgender people and suicide from the Centre of Suicide Prevention

And the final link is a December 6, 2016 article from Psychology Today entitled Why Transgender People Experience More Mental Health Issues.

In other words, FRC cherry-picked information from these sources to make a negative point about trans people while omitting that the sources in general refutes the negative point the group is attempting to make. Now that's just sloppy. 

But if you think that's brazen of FRC, then check out the following tweet the group sent out today:

Keep in mind that the Family Research  Council has given full support to state legislation across the country which would ban trans kids from receiving suitable and affirming healthcare even though said legislation has been opposed by a myriad of medical professionals and  . . . wait for it . . . parents. 

Texas is even considering a bill which would label parents who support gender affirming care for their children as "child abusers." They would jailed and their children could be taken from them. No doubt false horror stories about affirming care for trans children (including a lie by FRC that affirming care included chemical castration) led the state to consider such a travesty of a bill.

Maybe the Family Research Council doesn't think that parents who support their trans children qualify as "real parents."  

'Biden to use bully pulpit to back transgender youth' & other Wed midday news briefs

 

President Biden supports trans youth.

White House: Biden to use bully pulpit to back transgender youth - Good. 

Tennessee is trying to sneak a ban on important gender-affirming care for trans youth into law - Those jerks never come up for air. 

The Mitchells vs. The Machines Has a 'Rad' Message of Queer Acceptance - Could be next year's Oscar winner for 'Best Animated Feature.

17 Exciting Queer Books to Savor This Summer - A really good list. 

'Stop hurting us': Transgender people denounce Caitlyn Jenner's sports remarks - Just putting this here, but the less said about Caitlyn Jenner and her betrayal of her own people, the better.

Hate group leader Tony Perkins obviously thinks that telling lies makes him a 'warrior for Christ'

Family Research Council president Tony Perkins has his terms mixed up.

Tony Perkins, head of hate group the Family Research Council, should be very glad that the adage about lightning striking one down for lying isn't factual.

Religious-right activist Tony Perkins says that men "were created to be warriors for Christ" and complains that when he says stuff like that, critics accuse him of "trying to take over the world" ... then admits, "Yeah, we are." pic.twitter.com/T9yw0y6yzX

— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) May 4, 2021

Warriors for Christ? Really, Tony?  I suppose it could be possible except for the Biblical prohibitions against lying and bearing false witness - two things which Perkins and FRC have done extensively against LGBTQ people including:

claiming that we want to create an anti-Christian Holocaust,

calling us pawns of Satan,

falsely linking us with pedophilia time and time again,

and constantly using junk science and partnering with other users of junk science to undermine our rights and demonize us. Perkins and FRC are so shady that they even went after a Star Wars video game for being inclusive.

For the record, Perkins and his kind can brag about taking over all they want, but there is a big difference between talk and action. On that same note, Perkins can bray about being a "warrior for Christ," but the same rules still apply. And there are enough receipts and paper trails out there to prove that Perkins and his group can't consider themselves "warriors for Christ." That is unless they think that "lying for Christ" is a noble endeavor.

The sad thing though is that they probably do.

Hat tip to Right-Wing Watch.

'Neighbors help gay man paint house in rainbow stripes after he faced threats' & other Tue midday news briefs

Neighbors Help Gay Man Paint House in Rainbow Stripes After He Faced Threats - Awesome story out of Australia.

Lil Nas X Is Bringing His Gay Agenda to 'SNL,' Will Debut New Song - Well this is going to be interesting. 

Fox News has aired more segments on trans athletes so far in 2021 than it did in the last two years combined - And the smear factory strikes again. 

GOP targeting trans youth ‘like watching a murder in slow motion’- Chilling commentary from a transgender young man affected by negative GOP legislation.

Push against trans athletes in girls' sports fails in Kansas - Another victory never hurts.

Group shows its true colors with tacky smear against transgender attorney

Chase Strangio

Chase Strangio is a brilliant transgender attorney who has been working against the recent ugly attacks on trans children in state legislatures. He is a staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union and has been the recipient of several awards. Even as I write this, Strangio is  arguing in front of the US Appeals Court against an Idaho law banning trans athletes.

But this is how he is described by an organization called Save Women's Sports

I had to snip a copy of the tweet because the group blocked me for calling attention to it.  This smear of Strangio reminds me of one a few years ago when a religious right spokesman described a lesbian family as "a woman who adopted children with her sex partner." and another when I was called a tar-baby in a chatroom (by a white guy) simply because the very dark hue of my skin.

That's what haters do. They take all of the worth and beauty of people and whittle them down into ugly stereotypes and negative identifiers. And it's so damn unoriginal.  In this case, the only bit of originality lies in how groups like Save Women's Sport deliberately miscategorize their hatred and bigotry into something pure and good. It's no different than other religious right groups putting the words "values" or "morality" or "family" in their names. The irony is that these groups are never about those things.   And the saving grace is, just like with the above tweet, their true faces tend to come out. 

Something that nasty always pokes its ugly head out gasping for air.

''Love Me' Empowers LGBTQ+ People Living with Depression' & other Mon midday news briefs

Love, Me Empowers LGBTQ+ People Living With Depression - As someone who has to take daily medication for depression, I think this is a wonderful idea. 

Undoing 4 years of 'damage': LGBTQ advocates on Biden's first 100 days - How do you think Biden has been doing thus far?

Mike Pence is declaring he’s “had enough” of Biden administration. But no one’s listening. - Mike Pence can do things to himself which I won't repeat in polite company. 

Gender-affirming surgery linked to better mental health, study finds - And another study proves yet again what we have always known. 

Memphis mother-son duo make Black-led LGBTQ advocacy group - Something good is going on in Tenn.

North Carolina lawmakers will not move forward on anti-transgender bills

While several states have been passing bills targeting the transgender community, particularly transgender children playing sports, other states such as North Carolina have been rejecting said bills. 

According to The News & Observer:

Lawmakers decided not to move forward with a controversial bill that would prevent transgender girls from playing on female sports teams. House Speaker Tim Moore confirmed to The News & Observer Thursday that House Bill 358, also known as the Save Women’s Sports Act, is dead after legislative staff found that there had been no complaints in North Carolina on this topic. “A wise legislature does not go out looking for social issues to tap,” Moore said.

. . . Moore’s announcement comes one week after Senate leader Phil Berger’s staff confirmed that another bill opposed by LGBTQ advocates would not move forward in his chamber. Senate Bill 514 would have prevented transgender people under 21 from getting gender-affirming health care and forced teachers to tell parents and guardians about students who did not conform to the gender assigned to them at birth, potentially outing them.

This decision by North Carolina legislators came in the same time frame in which South Carolina House committee also killed legislation which would bar transgender children from school athletic sports teams. This was the third time the legislation fell short.

Not saying that this is a trend of anything, but during the same time these events took place, MSNBC's Stephanie Ruhle grilled West Virginia Governor Jim Justice about the anti-trans legislation he recently signed into law.

Apparently Justice couldn't give a clear answer as to why the legislation was needed.

Group behind bills targeting trans kids once defended imprisoning gays and sterilizing transgender people

THIS is the group with the bullseye on transgender children.

Editor's note - Unfortunately, the Texas Senate did pass the bill which could criminalize parental support of trans children and lead to those children being taken out of the home. It now goes to the House.

As we watch the attack on our trans children via statewide laws backed by a narrative of lies, it's important to remember from who and where it's all coming from.

According to an article in March from The American Independent:

Many of the proposed bills introduced in state legislatures have been connected to the right-wing group Alliance Defending Freedom, which has drafted some or all of the legal language used in them, provided testimony in favor of anti-trans measures from purported experts in state legislatures, and conducted public relations campaigns to promote the bills and attack the federal Equality Act.

 The group works under the umbrella of "The Promise to America's Children" coalition with other right-wing organizations, including the Heritage Foundation and the Family Policy Alliance, to attack transgender rights. The Alliance Defending Freedom has been designated a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, which cites its work to recriminalize sexual acts between consenting LGBTQ people, support for sterilization of transgender people, and promotion of myths about pedophilia and LGBTQ sexuality. 

 According to its 2017 tax returns, the nonprofit group brought in over $55 million in donations. It has over the course of its 27-year history poured millions of dollars into the fight against LGBTQ rights and the right of women to have abortions. 

 . . . In its attacks against transgender people over the years, the Alliance has insisted on misgendering them, referring to transgender women as "males" and "biological males." It has also demonized gay people in publications, saying that pedophilia and homosexuality are "often intrinsically linked" and that there is a "definite link" between "child molestation and later homosexual behavior." Claiming that there's a plot against Christians, the group's founder, Alan Sears, compared activists for LGBTQ equality to "Nazis" who were "tightening the screws" against Christian churches and claimed they were manipulating data on LGBTQ suicides in order to "entrap more children in a dangerous behavior."

While religious right groups like the Family Research Council or the American Family Association are front and center,  ADF pushes its anti-LGBTQ agenda in the background. 

And overseas.

'Texas Senate determined to redefine supportive parents of trans kids as child abusers' & other Thur midday news briefs

 

Texas Senate is set to redefine supportive parents of trans kids as child abusers - THIS is going to be a disaster.

Over 400 Major Businesses Endorse Equality Act, LGBTQ+ Civil Rights - It may help. Or it may not. 

Ohio to allow transgender people to change birth certificate gender - Good! 

New Air Force teams to look at LGBTQ, indigenous inclusion issues - Works for me.

Hundreds of people showed up to protest a school board meeting over a nonexistent LGBTQ policy - Imply awful lies about LGBTQ people and children, then watch the puppets dance.

Franklin Graham upset that Biden is allowing the LGBTQ rainbow flag to fly at American embassies. He'll have to get over it.

Get over yourself, Franklin Graham.

Recently on his Facebook page, Franklin Graham whined about President Biden's decision to allow US embassies to fly the LGBTQ rainbow flag:

Just because something is “authorized,” that doesn’t make it right! Why should a flag representing one group of people and a specific agenda be literally raised up above all others and allowed to fly at our embassies and consulates? The embassies represent the United States of America on foreign soil—only the U.S. flag should be flown. Not the gay pride flag, not the Christian flag, not any other flag. The previous administration had a one-flag rule that the Biden administration has rescinded. Our U.S. flag represents the sacrifice, the honor, the unity, the patriotism—and the blood—that made America great. Pray for our nation and our leaders.

Yeah, whatever. There are a few details Graham omitted about Biden's decision: 

 Secretary of State Antony Blinken has authorized US embassies to fly the Pride flag, according to a State Department cable first reported by Foreign Policy. Blinken gave US diplomatic outposts the greenlight to fly the rainbow flag before May 17, the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia, and to keep it on display through Pride Month in June. But the top US diplomat in the cable also said that this was not mandatory, leaving it up to diplomats to "determine that such a display is appropriate in light of local conditions," per the New York Times, which also reviewed the cable. 

 . . . This move reverses a decision from the Trump administration, which rejected requests from US embassies to fly the Pride flag. Then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who publicly opposed same-sex marriage, said only the US flag should appear on the flagpole at US embassies. 

 While Graham attempts to pull a "I'm not being homophobic, I just think that only the American flag should fly at US embassies" narrative, I'm willing to be that his attention - as well as that of the Trump Administration's - was brought to the situation simply because it was the rainbow flag flying at the embassies.

I personally don't see anything wrong with flying the rainbow flag at embassies. It's not mandatory, it's not permanent, and it highlights the fact that LGBTQ equality and safety is a worldwide issue. That's what scares Graham and company about the issue. It ruins their negative narratives about LGBTQ lives, families, and issues.  It reminds them that we matter.  And they hate that.

Also, if I can be just a tad vulgar, I am happy that Graham choose to write out his concern instead of giving a speech about it. I probably wouldn't have been able to understand what he was saying because I've gotten so used to his head up Donald Trump's ass these past four years. Isn't it amusing that Franklin Graham has the audacity to have spent four years doing the Humpty Dance with the devil in the White House and then think he can admonish people to pray?