Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician and attorney who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Barack Obama was the first African-American president of the United States. He previously served as a U.S. senator from Illinois from 2005 to 2008 and an Illinois state senator from 1997 to 2004.
punishment by God and that Christians who oppose it will be persecuted. That same year, he criticized President Barack Obama for promoting LGBTQ+ equality during a visit to Kenya, saying Obama was endorsing sin, and he praised Russia's anti-LGBTQ+ policies.In 2018, Graham asserted that Jesus Christ would oppose same-sex marriage and warned that same-sex couples would face destruction as in the stories of Sodom and Gomorrah in the Bible.