Samaritan’s Purse, the group behind the 68-bed field hospital in Central Park, are loathsome, anti-gay, Islamophobic bigots whose volunteers have signed a pledge that “the unrighteous are sentenced to "everlasting punishment in hell." https://gothamist.com/news/samaritans-purse-franklin-graham-anti-gay-evangelical-central-park">https://gothamist.com/news/sama...
Samaritan’s Purse is a group of fundamentalist evangelical Christians founded by Billy Graham’s son, and they have already been censured by multiple countries for turning aid into an opportunity to proselytize and propagandize
Can’t help but think this is what they’ll do with us
Can’t help but think this is what they’ll do with us
Because we do not have a functional healthcare system in the US, when a pandemic strikes our local government has to turn to religious fundamentalist hate-mongers who will transform our dying neighbors into photo ops
Samaritan’s Purse founder “Graham has also claimed that Barack Obama “allowed the Muslim Brotherhood to become part of the US government"; praised Vladimir Putin for “protecting children from any homosexual agenda"; and railed against the "transgender lie"”
Medical professionals - is there a reason that these bigots have to set up in Central Park and not get space in a building near a hospital? It’s only 68 beds