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Franklin Graham Defends Evangelicals Supporting Trump
Global Dispatch ^ | Oct 17, 2016 | Butter Bracco

Posted on 10/17/2016 1:51:14 PM PDT by upchuck

As Donald Trump’s lewd remarks and insults have created a major divide in the political arena, the surprising support from evangelicals have surprised everyone. Pastor Franklin Graham took to his Facebook page Saturday to defend the evangelical leaders who have remained in Trump’s corner.

“A lot of people are slamming evangelicals for supposedly giving Donald J. Trump a pass. That’s simply not true. No one is giving him a pass. I’m certainly not, and I’ve not met an evangelical yet who condones his language or inexcusable behavior from over a decade ago. However, he has apologized to his wife, his family, and to the American people for this. He has taken full responsibility. This election isn’t about Donald Trump’s behavior from 11 years ago or Hillary Clinton’s recent missing emails, lies, and false statements. This election is about the Supreme Court and the justices that the next president will nominate. Evangelicals are going to have to decide which candidate they trust to nominate men and women to the court who will defend the constitution and support religious freedoms. My prayer is that Christians will not be deceived by the liberal media about what is at stake for future generations.”

At a prayer rally in Raleigh, Graham told an assembled crowd of approximately 10,500 to “hold your nose and vote.”

You have to decide which one of the two (presidential candidates) that you would trust to appoint justices that are going to protect our religious freedom as Christians. Vote where you can for people that are going to support Biblical principles.



TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: christianvote; evangelicals; franklingraham; homosexualagenda; prolifevote; religiousliberty; trump2016
God please bless Rev. Graham, Donald Trump and our precious country. Amen.
1 posted on 10/17/2016 1:51:14 PM PDT by upchuck
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The future of the Supreme Court, and our country, is at stake in this election. IMHO, God is giving us one last chance to get it right.


2 posted on 10/17/2016 1:53:19 PM PDT by upchuck (Trump to the White House!! Hillary to the Big House!! h/t Jim Robinson)
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To: upchuck

..Franklin Graham is a wise and great man...


3 posted on 10/17/2016 1:54:25 PM PDT by WalterSkinner ( In Memory of My Father--WWII Vet and Patriot 1926-2007)
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To: upchuck

Just saw him minutes ago, on CNN, explaining why Trump is far better than Hillary because of SCOTUS nominations, which will determine fate of evangelicals for 3 or more decades. He did accede that both candidates are flawed.


4 posted on 10/17/2016 1:56:18 PM PDT by entropy12 (GO DONALD J TRUMP! MAGA!!!)
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To: upchuck

He allows any comments on his facebook page with no censorship and they are brutal. I’m glad he leaves them published so people can see the true evil this country has become.


5 posted on 10/17/2016 1:58:18 PM PDT by tuffydoodle ("Never underestimate the total depravity of the average human being.")
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To: upchuck

I pray that the good folks in Raleigh listen to his advice and support Donald Trump.

Rev, Graham is a great Christian and great American.


6 posted on 10/17/2016 1:59:05 PM PDT by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
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To: upchuck

Somewhere in Dallas Tx, Glenn Beck is curled up sucking his thumb...


7 posted on 10/17/2016 2:00:39 PM PDT by GraceG (Only a fool works hard in an environment where hard work is not appreciated...)
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To: upchuck

There is a choice to vote for a flawed but penitent sinner or an impenitent sinner, whose breath stinks with the lust for power and whose hands drip with the blood of God’s babies. Do not call yourself a Christian if you vote for the latter.


8 posted on 10/17/2016 2:05:51 PM PDT by txrefugee
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To: upchuck

King David committed adultery with Bathsheba who got pregnant and had her husband sent to the front lines of battle to be killed so he could hide the truth of what happened. Trump is a piker compared to what King David did. A repentant heart does wonders. King David had his Samuel and Donald Trump has his Franklin Graham.


9 posted on 10/17/2016 2:15:08 PM PDT by tflabo (Truth or tyranny (agent Able Deplor))
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To: upchuck

God used the most wicked nations to do his will, punishing his own people until the “reset” could occur.

I see Trump in this vein.


10 posted on 10/17/2016 2:25:18 PM PDT by fwdude (If we keep insisting on the lesser of two evils, that is exactly what they will give us from now on.)
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To: upchuck
If SHE is elected the blood of 55 million aborted babies will cry out from the ground
The First Amendment and second amendment will be gutted forever
The Supreme Court will be changed for a generation or more
And the America that we knew and loved will be more gone than it is now...if you can't get off your pious ass an go vote for Trump you deserve the hell that woman will rain down on us....God Have Mercy on America!
11 posted on 10/17/2016 2:30:50 PM PDT by lexington minuteman 1775
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To: upchuck

God Bless Rev. Franklin Graham.


12 posted on 10/17/2016 2:37:59 PM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: lexington minuteman 1775

And this peaceful revolution that Mr. Trump is leading will in time become violent.


13 posted on 10/17/2016 2:41:31 PM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: upchuck

i like the people trump has for him. i don’t like any of the people clinton has for her.


14 posted on 10/17/2016 2:41:41 PM PDT by dadfly
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To: upchuck
"a lot of people are slamming evangelicals for supposedly giving Donald J. Trump a pass." A lot of people don't know Jesus and would much rather keep on throwing stones from their glass houses.

We have learned a lot about bullying this past year and the true nature of self-trumpeted 'liberals', who no longer have much real estate left to stand on when it comes to that subject.

I don't wish for the Trump Train to run them over, but I do hope it dusts their shoes as it speeds past leaving them behind.

15 posted on 10/17/2016 3:21:36 PM PDT by blueplum ((March 11, 2016 - the day the First Amendment died?))
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To: upchuck

Who is the one anointed for the task?

"common grace"

God's trumpet!!!


16 posted on 10/17/2016 3:27:45 PM PDT by Stand Watch Listen (ELITE IMMUNITY: how the NWO puppetsmasters / puppets continue to function)
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To: lexington minuteman 1775

If SHE is elected we will have more unsustainable debt, more regulations and higher taxes to push corporations and jobs out of the United States, more welfare and entitlements for legals and illegals, more illegal immigrants and liberal Supreme Court justices. I can not understand why some think what Trump said years ago justifies this.


17 posted on 10/17/2016 3:48:32 PM PDT by ActresponsiblyinVA
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To: upchuck

BTTT!


18 posted on 10/17/2016 3:50:59 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: upchuck

I respect Graham for taking this stand, and I am glad for those who need such support.

I do not. I have taken controversial stands in the past based upon the Word and against the increasing worldliness found in the so-called mainline denominations.

If I needed such approbation from others who call themselves Christians, then I would never have taken any such stands against great opposition, and with resulting great cost.

I make my own choices.

My choice - since the day he declared - is Trump.


19 posted on 10/17/2016 5:20:36 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - JRRT)
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