"Jesus would rather kill, not marry, gay people" - Franklin Graham

[Aroura]

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Look, GC's has a slight point, Kit should not have that phrase in quotes.  It's not an exact quote. Fix it Kit!
However, this is clearly the intent of what was said.  So if the quotes alone are removed, the title is otherwise accurate.  

“Jesus didn’t come to promote sin, He came to save us from sin,” and "The Bible is very clear. God destroyed the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah because of homosexuality." and "God defines sin in His Word—it’s not up to our opinion, the latest poll, or a popular vote." These are direct quotes.  He's wrong, naturally, and a hypocrite to boot, but that's not the point.

He stated that Jesus came to save us from sin, that God clearly defines homosexuality as sin, and that God's actions in the past were to kill whole cities full of people for this particular sin.  Although he did not say the exact words quoted in the title, he did say things that meant those exact same words.

Jesus = God.  God kills homosexual sinners = Jesus kills homosexual sinners.  It's all right there.  He's too coy to come right out and say it, but even without that, the meaning is clear as fucking day.

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If you substitute the words Jew, or Blacks, or Catholics, or anything else where he says sin/homosexuality, you'll see my point clearly.  Let's try, shall we?

Jesus didn’t come to promote blacks, He came to save us from blacks,” and "The Bible is very clear. God destroyed the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah because they were black."

This is promoting the killing of the sinners. No question.

First, I think that your substitution of “blacks” for sinners is nothing but  sophism. There is no reason for it  And it doesn’t make anything clearer.

Second, I don’t think that warning about the consequences of sin, or a judgement of sin that most Christians would use the word “promoting” I don’t think it’s anything to be happy about. I don’t think it’s appropiate anymore, than to say that you are promoting the actions of those in the account just before the destruction of the cities. I see atheists complain about God allowing evil, but then they also complain when he judges and removes it. They will complain no matter what, perhaps, because they think they should be God.

I don't see how your first point addresses the issue at all.  Don't like my substitution of words?  Fine. Graham still said the things that indicated God (and therefore Jesus) kills gay people as punishment.

Your second point makes no sense what so ever. Graham literally used the word "promote".  I didn't put it in there, he did. I said nothing about "most Christians", nor is this topic about that.  It is about what one particular Christian said and believes. Also, we don't complain about god allowing evil, we point out that it is a logical flaw in the claim of his supposed all goodness that means either he isn't all good, or he does not exist.

I notice that despite your wordy quibbling, you still support what he said, though.  You right here equate the evil referenced in the problem of evil (the murder of babies, wars, the deaths of innocents in natural disasters, suffering and illness of all sorts) to gayness. 

You are the perfect example of the loving Christian.  Well done.