Anti-LGBT+ Group Forces Volunteers To Reject Gay Rights In Central Park Tent Hospital
An anti-LGBT+ group, Samaritan’s Purse, lead by evangelist Franklin Graham, forces volunteers to reject gay rights in its Central Park tent hospital.
Samaritan’s Purse has specifically been recruiting Christian volunteers who are required to adhere to the group’s statement of faith before being accepted.
Most of the statements are theological but two of them are about the LGBT+ community and abortion. Volunteers have to agree that trans people don’t exist, that same-sex marriage is a sin and that gay popped should be celibate or risk “damnation and eternal punishment”.
“We believe God’s plan for human sexuality is to be expressed only within the context of marriage, that God created man and woman as unique biological persons made to complete each other,” one of the items reads. “God instituted monogamous marriage between male and female as the foundation of the family and the basic structure of human society. For this reason, we believe that marriage is exclusively the union of one genetic male and one genetic female.”
Jane Meyer, a spokesperson for City Hall, after being asked about whether the group’s background is “problematic”, said that “Our record on human rights is clear; and we are confident that the joint effort by Mt. Sinai and Samaritan’s Purse will save New Yorkers’ lives while adhering to the values we hold dear by providing care to anyone who needs it, regardless of background.”
State Sen. Brad Hoylman (D) said in a statement to ‘LGBTQ Nation’ that “COVID-19 doesn’t discriminate, and neither should Franklin Graham. It’s unacceptable that a New Yorker infected with COVID-19 could be subjected to discriminatory treatment from an organization whose leader calls us ‘immoral’ and ‘detestable’.
“Today I’m calling on Franklin Graham to publicly assure LGBTQ New Yorkers that they will receive the same treatment as anyone else at the Central Park field hospital.
“Sadly, beggars can’t be choosers: New York needs every ventilator we can get. But homophobic pastor Franklin Graham and his field hospital operation in Central Park must guarantee all LGBTQ patients with COVID-19 are treated with dignity and respect,” he concluded.
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