'It is time for Samaritan's Purse to leave NYC...Their continued presence here is an affront to our values of inclusion,' Corey Johnson, the speaker of the New York City Council, said May 1.
The American Protestant evangelist has now been dropped from every venue originally booked to host his U.K. tour on account of his Bible-based teachings on sexuality.
'It is said by some,' Graham wrote after his event was canceled, 'that I am coming to the UK to bring hateful speech to your community. This is just not true.'