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# Anti-LGBTQ+ speaker to talk at National Republican Convention
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/anti-lgbtq-speaker-to-talk-at-national-republican-convention/
- Published: 2020-08-26T08:03:03.000Z
- Updated: 2020-08-26T08:03:03.000Z
- Description: Franklin Graham, known for his controversial views about the LGBTQ+ community, is scheduled to address the National Republican Convention.
- Author: Rachel Badham
- Tags: Election Special, Information, News, Out & About, Politics, Donald Trump, LGBTQ, LGBTQ USA, Trump

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**Franklin Graham**, a protestant evangelist and public speaker known for his controversial views about the LGBTQ+ community, is scheduled to address the **National Republican Convention** in **North Carolina** (**US**) which is taking place from **August 24 – 27**. Graham has been [referred to](https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/08/24/franklin-graham-anti-lgbt-hate-preacher-2020-republican-national-convention/?ref=scenemag.co.uk) as a Trump fanatic and is due to speak on Thursday evening, when **Donald Trump** is also giving a speech. He spoke at Trump’s inauguration in 2016 and has maintained close contact with the Trump administration since then.

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Franklin Graham

Earlier this year, Graham published an [open letter](https://www.facebook.com/FranklinGraham/posts/3013601232029371) to the LGBTQ+ community in the **UK**, saying that homosexuality is a sin and urging queer people to repent and build ‘the right relationship with God’, which he argued he is doing ‘out of love’. He is also widely known for his remark that gay couples are ‘taking children’ from heterosexual couples which he then described as a ‘moral 9/11’, and [compared](https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/04/13/franklin-graham-homophobia-gay-drug-addicts-new-york-city-coronavirus-hospital-bill-de-blasio/?ref=scenemag.co.uk) queer people to ‘drug addicts’.

Graham [expressed outrage](https://www.facebook.com/FranklinGraham/posts/3381726081883549?%5F%5Ftn%5F%5F=-R) when rulings were past in early 2020 that would protect LGBTQ+ people from losing their jobs due to discrimination, saying that it was a breach of religious freedom. Despite this new legislation, there have been multiple laws implemented that threaten LGBTQ+ rights during Trump’s presidency, such as the controversial [attempted ban](https://www.forbes.com/sites/danielcassady/2020/07/30/house-votes-to-block-trumps-ban-on-transgender-troops/?ref=scenemag.co.uk#37227fe93747) on transgender troops in the military. In addition, a [new proposal](https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/trump-proposals-threaten-lgbtq-asylum-seekers-hopes-refuge-u-s-n1236736?ref=scenemag.co.uk) is due to heighten border control thus affecting LGBTQ+ asylum seekers.

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