Evangelical leader banned from Facebook for ‘hate speech’ over transgender bathrooms

By Claude Thompson

Published December 30, 2018 6:28pm ET

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Evangelical leader banned from Facebook for ‘hate speech’ over transgender bathrooms — In this May 1, 2018, photo, the Rev. Franklin Graham speaks during an interview about his latest book "Through my Father's Eyes," about his father the late evangelist Billy Graham in New York. Billy Graham's oldest son, Franklin, says his new book about his father is meant to share lessons he learned from the man known as "America's Pastor." | (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

Evangelical leader Franklin Graham, the son of the late evangelist Billy Graham, was banned from posting on Facebook for 24 hours after a 2016 post of his was flagged for “dehumanizing language.”

Following the ban Graham said in a Facebook post on Friday that the flagged statement, which was from April, was about North Carolina’s “bathroom bill” that focused on which bathrooms transgender individuals were legally allowed to use.

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