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  • 2020-12-23 (xsd:date)
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  • Did Franklin Graham Call on Pete Buttigieg to 'Repent' for Being Gay? (en)
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  • In mid-December 2020, U.S. President-elect Joe Biden nominated former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg to be the U.S. Secretary of Transportation, thus making Buttigieg the first openly gay man to be nominated to a Cabinet role: Shortly afterwards, social media users began recirculating an image of a post supposedly documenting that evangelist Franklin Graham had called upon Buttigieg to repent for being gay: This image was a reproduction of a genuine tweet issued by journalist Yashar Ali (and a response to it from political strategist and commentator Ana Navarro-Cárdenas) in April 2019: As for the substance of the tweets, ABC News reported at the time (April 2019) that: Graham's tweets read as follows: (en)
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