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Franklin Graham: Proposed Stonewall Monument Will Be 'A Monument To Sin'

Evangelist Franklin Graham, who is currently traveling the country with his supposedly nonpartisan “Decision America” tour, appears to be fixated on the purported(link is external) dangers(link is external) of LGBT rights, warning that the movement is destroying everything from the church(link is external) to marriage(link is external) to the Girl Scouts(link is external).

Continuing that trend, the conservative preacher took to his Facebook page today(link is external) to criticize reports(link is external) that President Obama is planning to erect the first national monument to the gay rights movement near the site of the Stonewall protests in New York City, calling the planned monument “a monument to sin.”

“I can’t believe how far our country has digressed,” he wrote. “I hope that the president will reconsider. Flaunting sin is a dangerous move.”