I was a little surprised at seeing a FULL PAGE ad in my
Sunday paper that features Billy Graham (94) telling Americans how to vote this
November.
Normally it is illegal for any church or religion that has tax
free status by IRS law, to support any specific candidate or party in an
election.
Many religions and their leaders do support political
candidates and parties but our government doesn’t have the balls to rescind
their tax free status when they violate IRS rules.
It appears that Billy Graham and his Billy Graham
Evangelistic Association chose to break the law and get into politics big time
although ole’ Billy is a little long in the tooth and may not be an actual
participant in this illegal activity, but his son Franklin III runs the show
now and he is known for his controversial sayings, beliefs and ideas.
The ad states that this is the most critical of elections
because we are dealing with “profound moral issues”.
Graham “strongly” urges voters to pick the candidate(s) that
support the biblical definition of marriage as between a man and a woman, is
pro-life and defends our religious freedoms.
Graham says that “The Bible speaks clearly on these crucial
issues” and that we must turn our hearts back to God.
Our Founding Fathers would cringe at this ad. They did
everything in their power to separate religion from state, knowing full well
how dangerous the mixing of religion and government is and has been throughout
the history of the world and here we are in 2012, mixing religion with
government despite all the warnings.
He calls for defending our religious freedoms as if they
were somehow under attack when the truth is that our freedoms FROM religion are
under attack as religion is being forcibly thrust into our lives by telling us
how we should live our lives and whom we should marry.
I hope other religious leaders will stand up and condemn
this blatant intrusion of religion into politics as un-American and more
in-line with the Taliban model of religious government controlling people’s
lives.
I hope Old Billy wakes up and smacks his idiot son upside
the head because the legacy that Billy has created is being severely damaged.
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