Gavin Christopher Newsom (born October 10, 1967) is an American politician and businessman who is the 40th governor of California, serving since January 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the 49th lieutenant governor of California from 2011 to 2019 and as the 42nd mayor of San Francisco from 2004 to 2011.
Franklin Graham (accidentally?) takes pro-prostitution stance in wild rant against “free sex”
open letter in the San Francisco Chronicle to California Governor Gavin Newsom and Mayor London Breed. He blasted them for the rise of homelessness in the city and an increase in thievery from downtown stores.Graham took this as his starting point to criticize the famously liberal city.“What John Chachas, CEO of a downtown retailer, is pointing out about the situation in San Francisco is right, but he shouldn’t be so surprised.
This has been 60 years or more in the making,” Graham said.“San Francisco has been sliding downhill since the 1960’s when they welcomed free sex, psychedelic drugs, and the anti-establishment subculture—becoming a haven for immorality.”Graham perhaps meant to say “free love” rather than “free sex”.
Or is Graham suggesting paid-for-sex would be preferable to free sex?It’s hard to believe that Graham’s “haven for immorality” comment isn’t a swipe at the fact San Francisco has one of the biggest LGBTQ+ populations of any city in the US.
Its distinct gay neighborhood around the Castro is famed worldwide.“What was confined to a few square blocks around Haight-Ashbury now has grown up and moved into City Hall and infected the entire city like a cancer,” Graham continued, before offering his solution.“This is a spiritual problem, and the only hope for San Francisco is God.
