Posted on 11/07/2008 12:19:28 PM PST by lewisglad
Billy Graham Won't Advise Obama Because of His Strong Pro-Abortion Position
by Steven Ertelt LifeNews.com Editor November 7, 2008
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Respected Christian preacher Billy Graham has been an advisor and spiritual helper to presidents dating back to President Eisenhower.
But that relationship with presidents will now come to an end because incoming president Barack Obama takes such a profoundly pro-abortion position.
To be sure, Graham's health is playing a part in the decision his son Franklin Graham told the Associated Press.
"My father feels like his time and day for that is over," Franklin Graham said. "But he would certainly like to meet (Obama) and pray with him."
But Franklin expressed concerns about Obama's abortion position -- something he mentioned to the senator during the campaign as a stumbling block -- and indicated that as the main reason.
He told AP the Bible is clear in its teaching that human life deserves respect and protection even before birth.
"President-elect Obama has heard our position," Franklin Graham told the news service. "And I told him that this was very difficult for us and hard for us. It's a moral issue that we just can't back down on."
"But he's our president-elect, and those positions that he holds that are contrary to Biblical teaching, I hope that God will change his heart," Graham added.
Obama's position in favor of unlimited abortions throughout pregnancy for any reason was a key issue for pro-life voters during the campaign.
Obama also came under fire for supporting the so-called Freedom of Choice Act, a Congressional bill that would make unlimited abortions under Roe v. Wade the national law and overturn the abortion reduction laws of all 50 states.
The senator also drew condemnation for his votes in the Illinois state legislature against a bill that would have made sure newborns who survive failed abortions receive appropriate medical care.
As soon as he hears this news, Billy is wheel fodder for Obie’s Fleet of Buses!
Unfortuantely this is the way it is now. With the PC culture we have the truth can't be disclosed about the cult of Islam or too many morons would rush to court screaming for Bush to be impeached and THEOCRACY at the top of their lungs.
As it stands the zero will make sure we have a father Pflagler or Jeremiah Wright type or even more likely a watered down preaceher that says things like hope and change on cue and homosexuals are normal.
Yep, I don't think abortion was really the issue...what preacher wouldn't want to counsel a supposed Christian on the agenda he was promoting??
Seems like Billy Graham sees something else in Obama.
Obama a Christian??? You shall know them by their fruits. Matthew 7:16
Well worth the viewing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNFCTSfm1cs
I can’t seem to find that...if you remember it so well, would you mind sharing a link?
Well, Mr. Graham, unless your father wants too get down on his knees and bow to the east several times a day with O-scum-a, he won't get the opportunity. Plus, I seriously doubt Obama prays. He THINKS HE IS THE ONE. Thus, no prayer needed. I bet this smug garbage pail gets up every morning looking for someone too bow to him and tell him how great and wonderful he is. I can see him doing his pimp walk strut through the office, demanding obedience too him and demanding that bow such as the subjects to a king had too do, or lose their heads. He is not my president. I will never call him that. HE IS A PUNK, THUG, CHICAGO GANGSTER. Al Capone did not have Chicago sewed up like this thug and the Daly thugs have it sewed up. The only way Chicago City Hall will ever be cleansed is to burn it too the ground to kill all the garbage and rebuild it.
I'll bite: Give me an example. What do you have in mind?
I said “Seems I remember a short time after 9-11 .....” If I remember wrong, prove it.
McCain played to lose.
I see no problem with this. The more secular government is, the better off we are as a country. Religion mixed with politics always leads to corruption and loss of liberties.
“History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.”
-Thomas Jefferson to Alexander von Humboldt, Dec. 6, 1813.
You said you 'seemed to remember' and you want me 'prove' that you don't remember? Should I just channel Sigmund Freud for you now?
That is why we have to educate them. Let the bishops try to fix the mess they helped create with the adults. I’m going to be working on the kids.
What it says is that Bill Graham is a lot older now and Franklin's talking for him.
Ojimjonesa. Classic!
Klinton was pro-choice too, and Graham licked is axx. I got no use for him.
And it says a lot. We've had our fair share of turds running the show in those years.
This one is a clinker.
Call Obama’s conscience and you’ll get a busy signal cause he’s left the phone off the hook. A seared conscience is very dangerous and a sign that the Lord’s Spirit is not within you.
Good - Obama is a politician first and last. Jesus is the first and the last. As our founding fathers believed, judgement awaits our nation in this life, and people the next large or small. All things work for good. My people starved to death and 8 million died and when they came to america most Irish families according to Dr Bowditch and Shattuck the children were born to die - this was only 108 years ago. Slavery was bad. Abortion is slavery now. Slavery was law of land at one time, did that make it good? Abortion is legal now...does that make it good?
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