As Franklin Graham’s Samaritan’s Purse organization dismantled its field hospital for COVID-19 patients in New York City, Graham defended his anti-LGBTQ views by contending — wrongly — that most New Yorkers share them.Those views have led to much criticism of Samaritan’s Purse’s presence in the city.
It ran the tent hospital in Central Park in a partnership with Mount Sinai Health System. As Samaritan’s Purse and Mount Sinai prepared to close the facility due to decreased demand, there were