Christian News The BGEA put adverts for the festival on local public buses. (Blackpool) Manchester County Court Judge Claire Evans ruled in favour of Franklin Graham and the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA) in the Lancashire Festival of Hope advertising campaign case. In 2018, the English city of Blackpool hosted the evangelistic event, which was attended by 9,000 people. To promote the event, the BGEA put adverts for the festival on local public buses. However, just one day after the campaign began, the posters were removed by Blackpool Council and the local transport company, “as a result of us listening and acting on customer and public feedback which we aim to do at all times,” said Jane Cole, Managing Director at Blackpool Transport. “Blackpool Transport is a proud ongoing supporter of the Pride and LGBT communities and in no way did we intend to cause any distress or upset. All buses carrying the advert will remain off the road until they have been removed,” she added. Furthermore, days before the removal of the ads, many people had protested on social media and signed an online petition calling on the government to ban Graham’s entry to the UK, because his […]
