Posted on 12/22/2015 2:04:50 PM PST by BlatherNaut
Evangelist Franklin Graham has announced he is abandoning the Republican Party in disgust over the move by the GOP-led Congress last week to pass a budget that Graham said was "wasteful" and provided funding for Planned Parenthood, which he compared to the Nazis.
Graham has previously said he has no faith in any political party, but his apparent renunciation of his Republican affiliation is an indication of anger on the right and the strong interest many disaffected evangelicals have shown in populist outsiders such as Donald Trump.
Graham himself has expressed admiration for Trump, the surprise front-runner in the Republican presidential field, and has voiced support for some of Trump’s more controversial positions - such as his call to ban Muslims from the U.S. - which have drawn condemnation from more mainstream evangelical leaders.
The federal government provides $528 million in funding for Planned Parenthood - about 40 percent of the organization’s annual budget = primarily through payments to Medicaid for health services for low-income Americans. Federal law prohibits funding of most abortions, and Planned Parenthood separates federal taxpayer dollars from those used to provide abortions.
Social conservatives have long fought to strip taxpayer funding from Planned Parenthood, and after the release of a series of undercover videos by anti-abortion activists earlier this year, those calls ramped up to a fever pitch.
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Good
Yes, good for him. Personally, I think we should jail Congress.
This won’t get much play, but its a big deal
Graham has a lot more people who trust and listen to him compared to almost any politician.
This is a big deal. Who will Graham endorse?
Good for him. He will not be the only one. The Repubs are pushing hard for a true conservative party to rise for THEIR ashes....but judging from their actions, they don’t care.
Dunno.
Well done. Finally a notable in the evangelical camp with the fortitude to do this.
You mean Chrislam leaders...
Yep. It is a big deal.
At the very least jail them...
I think Mr. Graham ups the anti of the likes of us and Graham inheriting the GOP and the irony is I'd thought we'd be the ones too leave, not the RINO's.
Either way, either them or us moving out after the Divorce they gave us eon's ago, is long overdue...
Amen!
“This is a big deal. Who will Graham endorse?”
I am expecting he endorses The Savior.
Why jail them? The Tree of Liberty’s looking parched.
He should have encouraged all who consider themselves Christian to do the same. That would leave a mark.
For justice every member of Traitorcongress who voted for the spending bill for the genocidal murder of children of the womb, crimes against humanity, and giving aid and comfort to the enemy should be tried, convicted, sentenced, hanged, and left to rot off the noose.
This will allow parents and schools to bus children to the various sites where students will have the opportunity to piss on the maggot-infested and bloating bodies of these traitors, and to be instructed that, when they grow up, they will likely have to repeat the process on the corrupt and traitorous politicians of their day.
I may be mistaken but I thought he may have already endorsed Trump.
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