Roger Williams goes Baptist on legendary evangelist Billy Graham

Since Billy Graham stepped into the political arena, the man dubbed as America’s pastor kept good on his promise to “do all he can” to help Republical presidential nominee Mitt Romney. For starters, his son, Franklin Graham, who questioned if Romney and Obama were Christians in February 2012 announced that evangelicals can now vote for a Mormon. (For those who feel these decisions reflect Franklin Graham’s more strident approach to faith and politics, Billy Graham’s spokesperson A. Larry Ross assures us repeatedly that the elder Graham is truly involved with these statements.

Now that the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA) deleted Mormons from their list of “cults” that included Unitarians, Scientologists, Spiritists, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and adherents of the Unification Church, evangelical organizations such as Ralph Reed’s Faith and Freedom Coalition can now launch major voter initiatives targeted toward evangelicals who now have Graham’s blessing to vote for a man who they were told during the Republican primaries lacked the Christians credentials of say Michele Bachmann, Newt Gingrich, Rick Perry or Rick Santorum. But if Billy Graham said it, they believe it. That settles it.

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