Franklin Graham believes that Americans turned their backs on God recently when they re-elected President Barack Obama to a second term.

The son of Billy Graham, the famed evangelist who has been spiritual advisor to several US presidents, says in an interview that Obama’s second term will 'usher in the largest changes in our society since the Civil War.'

Vandals struck The GLBT History Museum in San Francisco early Monday (29 October) shattering two large plate glass windows.

'It's clear that this was vandalism,' said Paul Boneberg, executive director of the GLBT Historical Society, the organization that runs the museum. 'We don't know who smashed the windows this or why they did it.'

The museum, located in the city's famed Castro District, is often referred to as San Francisco's 'queer Smithsonian' and is the first full-scale, stand-alone museum of its kind in the United States.

Billy Graham, the famed evangelist who has been spiritual advisor to several US presidents, speaks out against gay marriage in a full-page ad appearing in the Wall Street Journal on Friday (19 October).

Graham states in the ad that as he approaches his 94th birthday, the November elections in the US may be his last.

Billy Graham, the famed evangelist who has been spiritual advisor to several US presidents, has come out publicly in favor of North Carolina's anti-gay Amendment One.

The 93-year-old Baptist minister is not known for taking strong political stances previously but has decided to campaign for passage of a ballot initiative that seeks to add a ban of same-sex marriages and civil unions to the North Carolina constitution.

Graham has purchased full-page ads that will appear in 14 newspapers over the weekend. Voters go to the polls on May 8.