By Rachel Emmanuel ~ The Western Journal
Evangelist and President of Samaritan’s Purse Franklin Graham summed up all of corporate America and Hollywood in his response to a comment made by “Shark Tank” billionaire Mark Cuban.
And all it took was one verse.
Graham’s Facebook post was a response to a comment Cuban made in an on-stage conversation at the Detroit Regional Chamber of Commerce’s annual Mackinac Policy Conference, reported Michigan Live.
“Call me woke,” Cuban said, “you don’t need to call it DEI, you can call it whatever you want — I call it good business. It means taking the people that you’re selling to and making sure your workforce looks like them, and making sure you can reflect their values and being able to connect to that. That’s what works for me.”
He continued, “Your constituents wake up in the morning — They don’t think about Bud Light, they don’t think about Target. They don’t think about any of the s*** on the other side, either. They think about how they’re going to live their lives or what’s gonna get them satisfaction.”
Graham’s response to these comments was short and simple.
“Billionaire Mark Cuban says going woke is just good business. Sin has always been good business. That’s why Hollywood sells sin,” Graham wrote on Facebook. “The Bible says, ‘…for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it’ (Matthew 7:13).”
Graham’s post succinctly captured the essence of the problem.
The response of Hollywood and corporate America to wokeness is just the newest avatar of a problem that has existed since the first “sales pitch” in the Garden of Eden.
Sin sells.
Millionaire businessman Hugh Hefner, founder and editor-in-chief of Playboy magazine, once said, “Sex is the driving force on the planet. We should embrace it, not see it as the enemy.”