{"id":176743,"date":"2020-03-31T19:13:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T00:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/03\/31\/god-its-me-matthew-could-you-smite-these-motherfers\/"},"modified":"2020-03-31T19:13:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T00:13:00","slug":"god-its-me-matthew-could-you-smite-these-motherfers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/03\/31\/god-its-me-matthew-could-you-smite-these-motherfers\/","title":{"rendered":"God, It&#8217;s Me, Matthew, Could You Smite These Motherf%$#ers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The religious nutjobs setting up a tent hospital in central park are <a href=\"https:\/\/gothamist.com\/news\/samaritans-purse-franklin-graham-anti-gay-evangelical-central-park\">requiring anyone who volunteers for service sign an agreement to discriminate against the LGBT community<\/a>:<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">On Tuesday morning, a makeshift tent hospital in Central Park will <a href=\"https:\/\/gothamist.com\/news\/emergency-field-hospital-going-central-park-coronavirus-cases-surge-nyc\">begin treating overflow patients<\/a> from Mount Sinai, as the spread of COVID-19 begins to <a href=\"https:\/\/gothamist.com\/news\/inside-one-brooklyn-hospitals-scramble-to-prepare-for-surge-in-coronavirus-patients\">overwhelm local hospitals<\/a>. Announcing the 68-bed respiratory unit this weekend, Mayor Bill de Blasio praised the relief organization, Samaritan&#8217;s Purse, responsible for funding and erecting the facility.<\/p>\n<p>The mayor did not mention that the group is led by Franklin Graham, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.splcenter.org\/hatewatch\/2019\/11\/13\/evangelical-franklin-graham-addresses-anti-lgbtq-hate-groups-event\">notorious<\/a> anti-LGBTQ and Islamophobic preacher with a track record of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2001\/03\/05\/world\/us-aids-conversion-minded-quake-relief-in-el-salvador.html\">using humanitarian missions<\/a> to proselytize an evangelical agenda.<\/p>\n<p>Graham, the son of prominent minister Billy Graham, has specifically sought to recruit Christian medical staff to the Central Park facility. According to the group&#8217;s website, all volunteers, including health care workers, should read and adhere to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.samaritanspurse.org\/our-ministry\/statement-of-faith\/\">statement of faith<\/a>, in which marriage is defined as &#8220;exclusively the union of one genetic male and one genetic female&#8221; and the unrighteous are sentenced to &#8220;everlasting punishment in hell.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Samaritan&#8217;s Purse, which holds a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/companies\/samaritans-purse\/#4ed02f0626c9\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported $650 million<\/a>  in net assets, has a lengthy history of using disaster aid to spread  their agenda. A campaign known as Operation Christmas Child, which  delivers gift boxes to children in Muslim countries, has been criticized  as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2018\/nov\/08\/christmas-evangelical-christians-samaritans-purse-children-muslim-countries\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">conversion scheme.<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Seriously, Hashem, you smote the Israelites for conducting a census in an sloppy manner.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Smite Franklin Graham.&nbsp; It&#8217;s long overdue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The religious nutjobs setting up a tent hospital in central park are requiring anyone who volunteers for service sign an agreement to discriminate against the LGBT community: On Tuesday morning, a makeshift tent hospital in Central Park will begin treating overflow patients from Mount Sinai, as the spread of COVID-19 begins to overwhelm local hospitals. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[506,364,387,436,460,380],"class_list":["post-176743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-bigotry","tag-evil","tag-hypocrisy","tag-lgbtq","tag-public-health","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176743"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}