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Christian Evangelist Franklin Graham has sparked an angry Facebook debate about gay rights when he announced he is pulling all of his organization’s millions out of Wells Fargo accounts in response to the bank’s recent ad campaign (see above) featuring a lesbian couple. Check out his FB post below.
Have you ever asked yourself–how can we fight the tide of moral decay that is being crammed down our throats by big…
Posted by Franklin Graham on Friday, June 5, 2015
Wells Fargo (CBEAX) , one of HRC most LGBT friendly orgs, stood behind its ad campaign and issued a statement.
“We were not naive to think that there would be no negative responses,”
Valerie Williams, Wells Fargo spokesperson
She added that the vast majority of reactions to the ad were not in line with Graham’s, and overall the response was “overwhelmingly positive.”
This is not the first and definitely not the last company Graham has publicly boycotted. Just this past January Graham wrote that he plans to boycott Tiffany & Co. in response to an ad the jeweler released that shows two men getting engaged
