Franklin Graham calls Taylor Swift’s Equality Act support ‘crushing threat to religious liberty’

The son of the late Billy Graham wrote on his Facebook page: “Shame on Taylor Swift for using her platform to try to push the socialist left’s so-called Equality Act, which has nothing to do with equality, but is about pushing the LGBTQ agenda down the throats of the American people.”

In May the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives passed sweeping new civil rights protections for LGBT Americans. The Republican-controlled Senate has yet to act, however, and supporters of the legislation – including pop star Taylor Swift – are getting frustrated.

The Equality Act, as it’s called, expands workplace, education and public accommodation protections that currently prohibit discrimination based on race, gender and disability to include sexual preference and gender identity.

Singer Taylor Swift opened the MTV awards night and performed with a colourful rendition of “You Need to Calm Down” an LGBTQ anthem that some have reported mocks Christians as uneducated and homophobic, with big gold letters on the stage that read “Equality Act.”

“This bill is the most crushing threat to religious liberty in our nation’s history,” Graham wrote. “In addition to allowing perverted men access to women’s private spaces like dressing rooms and restrooms, and allowing biological males to take over girls’ and women’s athletic competitions, this bill would do a…