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Franklin Graham and views on President's behaviour.
Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2018 7:08 pm
by _aussieguy55
https://bluestatedaily.com/franklin-gra ... l-affairs/“Last week Mr. Clinton told 70 million Americans that his adulterous actions with Ms. Lewinsky were a “private” matter ‘between me, the two people I love the most–my wife and our daughter–and our God.’
But the God of the Bible says that what one does in private does matter. Mr. Clinton’s months-long extramarital sexual behavior in the Oval Office now concerns him and the rest of the world, not just his immediate family. If he will lie to or mislead his wife and daughter, those with whom he is most intimate, what will prevent him from doing the same to the American public?”
On Donald Trump-
" I think some of these things are something for him and his wife to deal with. ...and I think the same with Stormy Daniels and so forth is nobody's business"
This is how evangelicals have selective outrage.
Re: Franklin Graham and views on President's behaviour.
Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2018 7:11 pm
by _aussieguy55
16 years before and neither President had a sordid past.
Re: Franklin Graham and views on President's behaviour.
Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2018 7:20 pm
by _canpakes
Virtually every person that I know, of claimed strong faith and moral conviction has been as slippery and ‘flexible’ as you note. This is where Democrats have an edge in honesty over Republicans, given that the former group generally admits to a relative morality while the latter group tends towards preaching a version of ‘objective morality and consequences’ that it never applies with any consistency. One of these approaches is a bit more honest than the other.
Re: Franklin Graham and views on President's behaviour.
Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2018 7:40 pm
by _aussieguy55
Bill Wilson the founder of AA had a religious experience and then stopped drinking from then on. He wrote the 12 steps which included the first step in finding some spiritual help. His alcohol problems had been difficult for his wife but more worrying for her must have been his extramarital affairs later on. This is documents in the book My Name of Bill. He was painted "as a unreliable womanizer" p.227. Do we just treat that as nobodies business?
Re: Franklin Graham and views on President's behaviour.
Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2018 10:50 pm
by _huckelberry
I am not inclined to like Franklin Graham. I am inclined to view him as tbetraying his father's legacy upon which he poses. Even so I am unsure what the tweets copied mean. They do not say people will be judged for criticizing Trump's affairs.(may or may not infer such)
I do not like Trump's affairs but they are not what troubles me most about Trump. I hold the comment about Mexicans coming to the country being rapists and bad actors as showing evil character in Trump.
Re: Franklin Graham and views on President's behaviour.
Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2018 3:56 am
by _Brackite
And Hannity has also changed his views on this issue.
Sean Hannity said in 2008 that presidential candidates who have affairs have a “character issue” because they are “living a life that’s a lie.” Hannity, who made the comments during a discussion about the affair of former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards on Hannity & Colmes, also said that Americans “have a right to know before we elect somebody” whether the candidates have had such affairs. He also speculated, “If you cheat on your wife, are you going to be honest with your country?”
In a subsequent episode of Hannity & Colmes, Hannity went further, stating that “If you take a vow, a promise, a pledge, a solemn vow, and you promise to love, honor, cherish, be faithful to, in good times and in bad, richer or poorer, better or worse, and be faithful, you know, till death do you part, if you don't -- if you can't keep that vow, why should people not be suspect that you keep a vow to, you know, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States?”
President Donald Trump is currently under fire for paying hush money during the 2016 campaign to conceal affairs with model Karen McDougal and adult actor Stormy Daniels. Hannity is Trump’s confidant and top propagandist.
https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2018/ ... try/220790