When I was
younger, it was not uncommon to hear people say, “I may not agree with what you
say, but I will fight for your right to say it.” As a nation, we fundamentally
believed in liberty—in freedom of religion, speech, and thought.
Today, however, a radical movement is racing across our country, the United Kingdom, and many other nations, to censor and erase anyone or anything that a vocal minority finds offensive. This “woke” movement has no problem with blatant forms of sin being displayed publicly on television and the internet. But they want to ban expressions from people who embrace traditional views of morality, family, and religion. This “cancel culture” doesn’t allow for free speech. When they find a sports team, a politician, or an entertainer who stands for Biblical values, they immediately want to silence and remove them.
We
experienced this in Blackpool, England, when a small but influential group of
activists protested our 2018 Lancashire Festival of Hope, where I was going to
be preaching the
Gospel. When LGBT activists piled on Twitter, complaining about the
evangelistic event because they disagree with my convictions about marriage,
they pressured the local bus company to remove our ads from their vehicles.
After the Festival, we filed a case in the court system to fight this
injustice.
Read Franklin Graham's entire letter from April 2021 here.
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