Outspoken evangelist Franklin Graham is condemning Donald Trump and the Supreme Court as flat-out wrong about gay marriage, declaring "just because something is made into a law, doesn't make it right."
In his
second public defense of jailed Kentucky court clerk Kim Davis, the leader of the foundation named after his famed father, Billy Graham, and head of the international charity Samaritan's Purse, scolds Trump for defending gay marriage as the "law of the land" during a
telephone interview with MSNBC.
"He should know that just because something is made into a law, doesn't make it right," Graham writes of Trump
on his Facebook page.
Graham also declared the nation's high court, which ruled
same-sex marriages legal in all 50 states last June, "did not have the right or the authority to redefine marriage."
"Big mistake," he writes.
Graham lectures that the front-running GOP presidential candidate's "Scottish Presbyterian ancestors may have been among those who had their heads cut off because they refused to recognize the King of England as head of the church."
"They believed that Jesus Christ was the head of the church, not the King of England; and they stood for--and died for--those sincerely held religious beliefs," Graham writes.
"Our forefathers gave us freedom of religion at a great cost, and that was meant for us to be able to live out our faith in our daily lives, at home and at work."
Graham adds that's what Davis is trying to do with her refusal to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couple as a matter of conscience – to "live out her faith."