Frank, I have refused to read Texe Marrs for a number of years because of some things he said in a book I read.
The things Texe said in this article you present, about Billy Graham, are just more of Texe's thoughts which I believe
are not God's thoughts.  Texe is more of a deceiver than the man he is besmirching, Billy Graham.  That is my opinion.

It would be difficult to go point by point and refute Texe, because, indeed, my viewpoint is closer to that of the man
he is criticizing, Billy Graham.  I agree with a lot of the things he says are Graham's wicked thoughts.

I find it difficult to discuss the homosexual/church problem just because my views ARE like Graham's and are different,
therefore, from those of many Doves, but let me just try to give a basic outline of what I believe.

First of all, before you stop reading me in disgust, I condemn the ordination of gays to be priests and bishops in the
Episcopal and other churches, and I do not accept gay marriage.  The reason is this:   to accept these things is to accept
homosexuality as normal and scriptural.  It is not normal.  And it is sinful.  But as Graham says, it is not the worst of sins.
Violence, murder, hatred are worse sins.  Ignoring the poor and needy are worse sins.  Not caring what happens to other
people is a worse sin.

Homosexuality is what Jack Kelley calls an "abiding sin" in some people.  They can't get rid of it even if they want to, even
if they try repeatedly.  They may get rid of it for a time.  But it can pop up again.  As Jesus said, you can get rid of a demon
but he may return with several more of his fellows to occupy the empty house the first demon was cast out of.  That is why
it is necessary to continually invite in the Holy Spirit to occupy your house.  And you have to keep working at it, make it
habitual, the occupation by Holy Spirit.  

Some homosexuals do blessedly achieve this Holy Spirit vigilance.  Hallelujah for their achievement.  Hallellujah to Holy Spirit.
But life pulls them back in to sin sometimes, they fall, they must get up again.  They would have to be monks who think
about nothing but holiness to achieve perpetual release from their abiding demons.  And some are not called to be monks.
Some don't have a nearby, friendly monastery to join; they are embedded in the world at least to a degree, to make a living,
as most of us are embedded.

As long as a homosexual acknowledges that his condition is not normal, not God's ideal, he is repentant.  Some would say
he MUST steer clear of homosexual thoughts in order to be completely repentant.  I question that!  He's not doing the ideal
thing, but he's doing what he can.  Maybe he can do better next time, maybe even get free!  But while he's stuck, he's still
a child of God, just as Billy Graham said.  Contrary to what Texe Marrs said.

I stopped reading Texe Marrs when he, along with Dave Hunt, implied that no Catholic is saved in Jesus Christ.  This is
entirely contrary to my experience.  I have a wide experience of having been raised in an agnostic home, having learned
the gospel from the Catholic children in my neighborhood, and from the Catholic and Protestant children in my elementary
school and "middle school."  I see this pattern repeated in my grandchildren:  being raised in an agnostic home and hearing
the gospel at school.  There is a reason the anti-God folks want to get mention of Jesus out of the public schools.

As an adult I became Catholic, then New Ager, then back to Catholic, then Protestant Bible student, and so on.  I am
stuck now with a situation where I can no longer attend my former Episcopal parish, yet have no Protestant church I can
attend because I am "sensitive" to the rug cleaners and new carpets they use; I will become ill neurologically by such
exposure.  I can attend the Catholic church because they have a good floor without a carpet that is poisonous to me.  I
am attending, the past few Sundays.  I think it is better to join with fellow Christians there, even if I don't believe all that
the Vatican teaches, than to sit at home without joining in Christian worship.  I believe those Catholics here ARE fellow
Christians, unlike the view of Texe Marrs.  

I have also experienced (the main reason I became a Protestant Bible student) a Catholic diocese which was beyond the
pale of Christian belief, which I found out through attendance at five of their parishes, trying to find one which was OK.
I even had a correspondence with Malachy Martin about this  (I am so glad he is in heaven, and unlike Texe, I believe
Father Malachy is in Heave).  

Enough said.  One could write an entire book refuting the world according to Texe Marrs.