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Trump Administration to Redirect WHO Funding to Evangelist Franklin Graham's Samaritan's Purse
https://www.atheists.org/2020/04/world-health-organization-franklin-graham-samaritans-purse/Trump Administration to Redirect WHO Funding to Evangelist Franklin Graham’s Samaritan’s Purse, Putting Lives at Risk
Washington, D.C.—Today, the church/state separation watchdog organization American Atheists denounced the Trump Administration’s alleged plan to steer nearly $400 million in World Health Organization (WHO) contributions to private organizations, including Franklin Graham’s Samaritan’s Purse.
According to multiple reports, Samaritan’s Purse has exploited emergencies in El Salvador, majority Muslim countries, and developing nations to seek Christian converts in exchange for aid—and has received federal funding to do so. In the latest controversy, the organization has come under fire for benefiting from the coronavirus pandemic to advance its culture wars agenda in New York City and beyond.
“WHO conducts coronavirus vaccine trials, distributes test kits, and advises countless governments. A divisive Christian organization whose leader claims this pandemic is due to ‘man turn[ing] his back on God’ cannot be trusted to replace WHO’s critical mission,” said Alison Gill, Vice President for Legal and Policy, who wrote a scathing indictment of Samaritan’s Purse, warning about discrimination against vulnerable groups, such as women, LGBTQ Americans, religious minorities, and nonreligious people.
According to the New York Post, Trump officials have “grumble[d]” about WHO’s “liberal policy priorities,” notably its work on climate change and medically safe abortions. During a press conference, Trump said the U.S. has had problems with WHO “for years” and the nation should have withheld funds “a long time ago.”
“Let’s be clear about Trump’s motives,” said Nick Fish, President of American Atheists. “To improve his reelection chances, he’s scapegoating WHO and is rewarding his most ardent evangelical supporters, like Franklin Graham, for literally demonizing opponents. This is a dangerous quid-pro-quo involving hundreds of millions of dollars in government funding and, more importantly, thousands of American lives.”
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This is nothing less than blatant vote buying. These criminal sons-of-bitches MUST GO! 
Keep your goddamned religion out of our government, or YOU WILL find our government coming for your mother-fucking religion. It's time to tax the shit out of all these charlatans. 
Conducted by Billy Graham and others. He and his family joined a church of their choice and left it to others to do the same - or not. He absolutely believed in the separation of church and state. So now we have a POTUS who has no religious beliefs to speak of who is supporting religious organizations?? 
Sorry, you're right, it is the tRump administration after all.
