MSNBC host Rachel Maddow told viewers
that she loves the ironic twist in Franklin Graham's boycott of a
gay-friendly bank.
Last week, Graham, the son of
evangelist Billy Graham and head of the Billy Graham Evangelist
Association, vowed in a Facebook post to shun gay-friendly
businesses, calling on his followers to “fight the tide of moral
decay that is being crammed down our throats by big business, the
media and the gay and lesbian community.”
Graham said that he was particularly
offended by a Wells Fargo ad that shows a lesbian couple adopting a
deaf child and later revealed that he had moved his accounts to “a
good bank.”
That bank, BB&T Bank, ranks high
(80%) on the Human Rights Campaign's (HRC) Corporate Equality Index
(CEI), a measure of a company's support for LGBT rights. BBT&T
is also the sponsor of this year's Miami Beach Gay Pride Parade and
the chief sponsor of the parade's Legacy Couples program, which
celebrates same-sex couples in “committed relationships of 10 years
or longer.”
“Franklin Graham threw a Facebook
hissy fit and moved his accounts because of a commercial that showed
two women adopting a deaf little girl,” Maddow
told viewers. “But it turns out his new bank is so much gayer
than his old bank.”
“The universe has a way of making
these things work out, big guy.”
“I love this story so much I want to
take it to Franklin Graham's new bank and marry it. If it's a lady,”
added Maddow, who is openly gay.