Franklin Graham tangles with Obama

by Will Braun | Published 1st March 2012 in Social Change

A recent Religion News Service article reports that evangelist Franklin Graham apologized to President Obama for “questioning his Christian faith.” Graham added that religion has “nothing to do” with his decision “not to support Obama’s re-election.”

The article continues: “When asked in a recent MSNBC interview if Obama was a Christian, Graham responded, ‘I cannot answer that question for anybody.’ He went on to say that because Obama’s father was a Muslim, ‘under Islamic law, the Muslim world sees Barack Obama as a Muslim.’”

A group of prominent black religious leaders responded by publicly accusing Graham of “bearing false witness.”

Read the complete article here.

Ever since a close encounter with Mr. Graham in 2006, headlines about the famous American evangelist tend to grab my attention. When he came to Winnipeg for a 2006 “crusade,” Geez organized “Operation Bless Our Enemies,” a sort of protest in response to Graham’s comments that Islam is “evil” and his suggestion that the U.S. should nuke Afghanistan. Our “operation” garnered local and national media attention, eg:

Apologize to Muslims, Winnipeg groups urge U.S. evangelist
CBC TV Manitoba

The Super-Powered Gospel
Winnipeg Free Press, reposted on CommonDreams.org