Franklin Graham
An activist group accusing former President Trump, Sen. Josh
Hawley, R-Mo., Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and evangelist Franklin
Graham of “inciting the attack on the U.S. Capitol” is urging board
members of the two ministries Graham leads to fire him.
Board members of Samaritan’s Purse and the Billy Graham
Evangelistic Association – for which Graham serves as president
and CEO – are the targets of a petition drive by the group,
Faithful America.
Faithful America is described by D. James Kennedy Ministries as
“a left-wing group” founded by the National Council of Churches and
funded in the past by George Soros.
FA also has launched a campaign to prevent anyone from
publishing Hawley’s new book.
Graham, the group contends, “is still doing everything he can to
support Trump’s deadly presidency, recently tweeting, ‘When he says
this election was rigged or stolen, I tend to believe him.'”
The organization, which has the slogan “Love thy neighbor. No
exceptions” at the top of its home page, blasted Graham.
“Even Trump’s incitement of insurrection has not shaken Graham’s
idolatry,” the group said. “On January 14, Graham literally
compared Trump to Jesus, accusing Republicans who voted for
impeachment of accepting ‘thirty pieces of silver’ to betray
him.”
It accused Graham of shrugging off the deaths of five people in
the Jan. 6 riot in Washington.
“There is absolutely nothing Christian about that.”
The group is led by Nathan Empsall, who holds a degree in
environmental management and previously worked with Barack Obama’s
nonprofit Organizing for America.
D. James Kennedy Ministries, or DJKM, is countering Faithful
America with an I’m With
Franklin! open letter inviting people to show support for
Graham.
“This is just one more stunning display of the left’s bitter
intolerance and its self-righteous determination to banish
biblically faithful voices from America’s public square,” said
Frank Wright, president of DJKM.
“Franklin Graham is an international evangelist and a renowned
humanitarian whose organization, Samaritan’s Purse, delivers aid
across the world to people in need. He is also an outspoken
defender of Biblical moral values at a time when the left is
determined to purge competing voices from American public life,” he
continued.
“That is why D. James Kennedy Ministries is collecting
signatures on our I’m With Franklin! open letter for delivery to
our friends at the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and
Samaritan’s Purse.
“We want him, as well as the boards of BGEA and Samaritan’s
Purse to know that faithful believers in Jesus Christ love Franklin
and stand with him,” he said.
Samaritan’s Purse, under Graham’s supervision, has provided
emergency mobile hospital facilities in several places over the
last year to assist with the flood of COVID patients.
DJKM described the FA effort as “a vicious petition campaign to
force Franklin Graham out as president and CEO of the Billy Graham
Evangelistic Association and Samaritan’s Purse.”
The letter in support of Graham�describes him as “a beloved
humanitarian statesman, an international evangelist and a faithful
follower of Jesus Christ.”
The charge against him is “false, inflammatory, and utterly
unfounded,” DJKM said, citing the facts:
- Franklin Graham has called for peace and reconciliation in our
nation. - He urged a Trump-Biden White House meeting to “begin the
healing.†- He called on Christians to “unite our hearts together in
prayer for President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect
Kamala Harris.†- And he urged believers to pray for “peace and calm†during
the inauguration.
DJKM noted that Faithful America already has launched campaigns
against former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and Family Research
Council President Tony Perkins.
Graham, several weeks ago, pointed out that Trump was proven
right many times, including in his claims that Barack Obama spied
on his 2016 campaign and that there was no collusion with
Russia.
“When President Trump says that this election has been rigged or
stolen, I tend to believe him. He has a track record of being
right. Pray for President Trump, pray for Joe Biden, and pray for
our nation—that we will get through this, and for God’s will be
done,” Graham wrote at the time in a Facebook post.
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