Posted: Sept. 9, 2016
Franklin Graham, son of famed evangelist Billy Graham, has spent the Obama years repeatedly suggesting that the president might secretly be a Muslim. Now he's touring the country holding election-year rallies at state capitols.
The next big swing-state rally is in Pennsylvania, and the United Methodist Church there is helping him organize it.
The Western Pennsylvania Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church has been promoting the event for months, and next week at least six congregations in the state are sending buses and carpools to the rally.
Graham has a long record of demagoguery and fear mongering, and has recently hinted heavily that Christians should be willing to vote for Donald Trump. At these rallies, he's turned up the volume, alleging that "progressives have taken God out of our country" and want to ban public prayer, and warning that "we've got maybe one election left" to save America.
Methodists have a long tradition of pursuing the common good and promoting civility - but now church leaders are helping create a platform and credibility for Graham's hatred and lies.
For more details on Methodist involvement in the event, please click here.
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