"Now that we've had four years of it, I think people, they might have recognized it before slightly, but now they're deeply familiar with it.". Polling indicates the majority of white evangelicals will vote for the president again in the upcoming November election. window.mc4wp = { window.mc4wp.listeners.push({

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She specifically noted Trump walking through Lafayette Square to St. John's Church in Washington, D.C., after tear gas was used on peaceful protesters in front of the White House. American. Duford also wrote that the silence from church leaders shows that marginalized communities are "no longer valued by individuals claiming to uphold the values my grandfather taught.".

"I do think we're going to see a difference in the polls this time around, partly because I think a lot of people in 2016 went to vote kind of crossing their fingers, maybe holding their breath, hoping I make the right choice here," she said. By Tauren Dyson    |   Many Christians do not consider the Clintons to be Christians despite their notations of their Methodist and Baptist backgrounds, and it was because of their stances on moral issues that many strongly opposed Hillary Clinton during the 2016 presidential election. "Like so many others, I feel disoriented as I watch the church I have always served turn their eyes away from everything it teaches. The granddaughter of late evangelical Christian leader Billy Graham is accusing current church leaders of spitting on his memory with their continued support of President Trump. Billy Graham, is throwing her support behind Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden. ", The Hill 1625 K Street, NW Suite 900 Washington DC 20006 | 202-628-8500 tel | 202-628-8503 fax. She explained the “silence” from certain church, and evangelical leaders on the way Trump treats marginalized communities and his “objectifying of women” have “done enormous damage to the way people view our faith.”.

These are the attributes of our faith we should present to the world. "Jesus loved women; He served women; He valued women and we need to give ourselves permission to stand up and do the same. In 1993, Graham drew controversy for agreeing to present the invocation at Clinton’s first inauguration despite the president-elect’s views, from which he dissented. ", Graham, an ordained Southern Baptist minister from North Carolina, died in 2018 at the age of 99 after having risen to national prominence for his televised sermons and crusades. Duford is a member of a Pro-Life Evangelicals for Biden and publicly endorsed the candidate last week. I think his greatest desire had nothing to do with policies but to introduce people to a loving Jesus, and the division this administration has caused I believe has hurt this effort,” Duford explained.

Jerusha Duford, granddaughter of the late Billy Graham, says that she will be voting for Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden this election and has written an op-ed and recorded a video citing the values of her grandfather and asking Christians not to vote for Donald Trump. She said that one of the reasons she decided to voice her view is because she disagrees with her uncle, Franklin Graham, who supports President Trump. She states that other females in her family feel that same. He recalled a meeting at the White House in which the two talked about the Bible, writing, “It was a time of warm fellowship with a man who has not always won the approval of his fellow Christians, but who has in his heart a desire to serve God and do His will.” Read the excerpt here.

Graham himself has said that abortion is generally an unjustified taking of a human life, but he admits exceptions in cases of rape, incest or danger to the woman’s life. She weighed in on the issue of abortion and how she wishes both parties would meet somewhere in the middle. Jerushah Duford, a granddaughter of the Rev. Returning to the retreat her grandparents tucked away in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Asheville, North Carolina, Wright reflected on her favorite memories in the area. “People need to come to their own conclusions about those running for office and not just assume it’s one [party] or another,” he said. “As a proud granddaughter of the man largely credited for beginning the evangelical movement, the late Billy Graham, the past few years have led me to reflect on how much has changed within that movement in America,” she wrote in the article published by USA Today.

Jerushah Duford, the granddaughter of legendary evangelist Billy Graham, accused President Donald Trump of attempting "to hijack our faith," as she tries to steer other people of faith toward Democratic nominee Joe Biden, according to The Hill. “Yet I equally wish the Republican Party would place a greater value on life outside the womb. Laws will be made, not for the public good so much as for selfish or local purposes, corrupt or incompetent men will be appointed to execute the laws, the public revenues will be squandered on unworthy men, and the rights of the citizen will be violated or disregarded.”, “If government fails to secure public prosperity and happiness, it must be because the citizens neglect the Divine Commands and elect bad men to make and administer the laws.”, Billy Graham’s Granddaughter Endorses Joe Biden for President added by Heather Clark on October 22, 2020 Thursday, 15 October 2020 04:26 PM. More than 80 percent of self-identified white evangelical Christians voted for Trump in 2016, according to the Pew Research Center, and he continues to have high approval ratings among that group. By Heather Clark on October 22, 2020No Comment.

Duford, the daughter of Gigi Graham and sister of Tullian Tchividjian, has lent her name to several efforts to endorse Biden, including Pro-Life Evangelicals for Biden and Vote Common Good. However, Graham was vocal about his concerns surrounding the moral decline of America in his latter years, and warned that the nation “can’t go on much longer in the sea of immorality without judgment coming.”, As previously reported, John MacArthur of Grace Community Church and The Master’s University and Seminary took a different view to this year’s election than Duford, outlining in August that he told President Trump that “any real true believer is going to be on your side in this election, because it’s not just an individual.