State Department sources last week reportedly confirmed the agency had denied multiple diplomatic requests to fly the rainbow pride flag on official embassy flagpoles this month in honor of LGBT Pride Month. Thousands of his more than 7 million social media followers appeared to support Graham's claim that rainbow-adorned gay pride flags are 'offensive' to Christians and much of the country.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for 'making the decision not to fly the gay flag over our embassies' in June. evangelist Billy Graham and current president of the Samaritan's Purse took to Facebook Saturday to applaud Trump and U.S. State Department for helping deny embassies' requests to fly the rainbow flag during Pride Month. Prominent Evangelist Franklin Graham thanked President Donald Trump and the U.S.