{"id":2358985,"date":"2024-10-24T12:39:01","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T16:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/billy-grahams-granddaughter-castigates-trump-as-franklin-graham-prays-aloud-for-45s-victory\/"},"modified":"2024-10-24T12:41:29","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T16:41:29","slug":"billy-grahams-granddaughter-castigates-trump-as-franklin-graham-prays-aloud-for-45s-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/billy-grahams-granddaughter-castigates-trump-as-franklin-graham-prays-aloud-for-45s-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Billy Graham&#8217;s Granddaughter Castigates Trump as Franklin Graham Prays Aloud for 45&#8217;s Victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbilly-grahams-granddaughter-castigates-trump-as-franklin-graham-prays-aloud-for-45s-victory%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2358985&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-trumps-last-ditch-effort-to-remove-fani-willis-isnt-likely-to-succeed\/\" title=\"Unlikely Trump&#039;s Last-Minute Attempt to Oust Fani Willis Will Succeed\">passage discusses<\/a> the contrasting political views within \u2062the family of the late Rev. Billy Graham during the \u20632024 presidential campaign. On one side,\u200c Rev. Franklin \u200bGraham, Billy&#8217;s son, publicly supports GOP nominee Donald Trump, praying for his success. Conversely, Jerushah Duford, Billy&#8217;s granddaughter, expresses her \u2064<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trans-people-exist-oreo-cookie-virtue-signals-while-parent-company-faces-child-slave-labor-lawsuit\/\" title=\"\u2018Trans People Exist\u2019: Oreo Cookie Virtue Signals While Parent Company Faces Child Slave Labor Lawsuit\">political stance<\/a> in favor of Democratic nominee Kamala Harris,\u200b citing the values she learned from her\u200b grandfather as influencing\u200c her decision to support Harris, particularly her views \u2064on controversial issues like abortion and LGBTQ rights.<\/p>\n<p>Duford\u2019s op-ed in Newsweek highlights her \u2062belief that Christians should reevaluate their support for Trump, whom she describes as \u2064incompatible with evangelical principles. She invokes her grandfather&#8217;s \u200clegacy of unity and compassion but contrasts her views sharply with those of her father, showcasing a split within the family regarding critical moral and political issues. The\u2063 text suggests a broader commentary on the divisions \u200cwithin contemporary Christianity and \u2063the implications of familial legacies in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gutfeld-ruins-jon-stewarts-big-night-steamrolls-lib-comic-in-ratings\/\" title=\"Gutfeld dominates Stewart, crushes liberal comic in ratings\">shaping political ideologies<\/a>. it raises questions about authenticity in expressing Christian \u200dvalues\u200c within political contexts and critiques the motivations behind their differing political affiliations.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> <script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_1)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>If your father or grandfather is a preacher, that doesn&rsquo;t automatically make you a preacher. If your mother and father are godly people, that doesn&rsquo;t necessarily make you godly. It&rsquo;s not hereditary, in other words.<\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;d like to think that pretty much every Christian has this down pat by now, as anyone who&rsquo;s traced biblical stories about family can rightly attest to. However, two relatives in the family of the legendary Rev. Billy Graham, in the closing weeks of the 2024 presidential campaign, are showing two different sides of what it means to be an evangelist.<\/p>\n<p>Rev. Franklin Graham, fresh off <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/dr-phil-travels-north-carolina-finds-franklin-grahams-samaritans-purse-putting-fema-shame\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">helping the survivors of Hurricane Helene<\/a> where FEMA did not, is offering prayers for GOP nominee Donald Trump. His granddaughter, meanwhile, is writing opinion pieces in favor of Kamala Harris, saying that the values she learned from the grandpa she called &ldquo;Daddy Bill&rdquo; has led her to support a woman who would federalize the right to abortion on demand at any time during pregnancies and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/kamala-harris-new-admission-means-christians-forced-provide-abortions-baptist-group-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">force Christians to perform and pay for them<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Jerushah Duford, said granddaughter, wrote the piece, published Wednesday in Newsweek: &ldquo;I&rsquo;m Billy Graham&rsquo;s Granddaughter and I&rsquo;m Voting for Kamala Harris,&rdquo; the headline read.<\/p>\n<p>OK, I lived one town over from Chris Christie at one point, and I&rsquo;m voting for Trump; where&rsquo;s my Op-Ed? Also, to be clear, Duford has long been using her grandfather&rsquo;s name to push her political causes, particularly in terms of pushing Christians to accept LGBT rights and other causes.<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>In 2020, for instance, she wrote a <a href=\"https:\/\/ecinc.org\/jerushah-duford\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">letter<\/a> of support to Evangelicals Concerned (&ldquo;Proclaiming the Good News of God&rsquo;s Love for Gay and Lesbian People,&rdquo; the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/famed-medical-journal-calls-women-bodies-with-vaginas-social-media-seriously-f-off\/\" title=\"Famed Medical Journal Calls Women \u2018Bodies With Vaginas.\u2019 Social Media: \u2018Seriously? F*** Off\u2019\">front page read<\/a>) lamenting the death of George Floyd and noting that she was &ldquo;born into a prominent Christian family as a white heterosexual woman,&rdquo; which is why &ldquo;the passion I have always had for the marginalized community is not something I came across from experience.&rdquo; She also <a href=\"https:\/\/jerushahduford.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">appears<\/a> to currently be an &ldquo;LGBTQ+ friendly&rdquo; mental health professional in Greenville, South Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, this might be the least surprising thing you read all day from somebody whose <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/denomination-abomination-rise-heresy-mainline-christianity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Christianity<\/a> could at best be described as heterodox and, at worst, be described as opportunistic cherry-picking.<\/p>\n<p>That isn&rsquo;t mentioned in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/im-billy-grahams-granddaughter-im-voting-kamala-harris-opinion-1973863\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Newsweek<\/a> piece, which simply said that, along with being Billy Graham&rsquo;s granddaughter, she&rsquo;s &ldquo;a <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">licensed therapist serving children<\/a>, couples, and families.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I pray that Christians will invite God into our hearts as we select our nation&rsquo;s leaders next month. This will require a courageous realignment for some of my fellow evangelicals who I feel may have been led astray by the MAGA movement,&rdquo; Duford said in her piece. &ldquo;But to admit error is not weakness. To reclaim our values is to find strength.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Which values are these? Federally legalizing abortion up until the moment of birth? Marrying an apparent nanny-impregnator? I don&rsquo;t really remember &ldquo;Daddy Bill&rdquo; encouraging the presidents he talked with to, say, allow the city of Springfield, Ohio, to become overwhelmed by Haitian migrants <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-resurfaced-video-catches-kamala-bragging-opening-door-legal-status-100k-haitians-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">that Kamala Harris<\/a> once bragged about opening the door to.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the issue is a matter of personality for Duford.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;As someone who enjoyed the privilege of growing up around the revered minister Dr. Billy Graham &mdash; or as we grandchildren knew him, &lsquo;Daddy Bill&rsquo; &mdash; I recognize very little in former President Donald Trump of the Christian faith that has inspired my life. Both men have stars on Hollywood&rsquo;s Walk of Fame, but I fear this may be the only characteristic they ,&rdquo; she wrote.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Trump&rsquo;s words and actions are fundamentally incompatible with evangelical principles. Contrary to some who claim he has been anointed by God to lead; Trump cannot return the U.S. to faithfulness. Sadly, by embracing such a megalomaniac, Christians have been turning away those who are curious about the Lord. We lose credibility when we say God is love, but then rally, and sometimes even riot, in support of an individual whose entire worldview centers on himself.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>We&rsquo;re now at the point, apparently, where &ldquo;the personal is political&rdquo; has become &ldquo;personalities equal policy&rdquo; in left-wing circles.<\/p>\n<p>I don&rsquo;t think anyone believes we&rsquo;re electing a pastor-in-chief &mdash; and if we did, a woman who got her start in politics by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/harris-defends-family-life-controversies-swirl-says-not-1950s\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dating a significantly older, married man<\/a>, ended up marrying a man with a bevy of heavy-duty moral failings, and promises to act in a way antithetical to virtually every biblical value, isn&rsquo;t exactly the woman to fit the role.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, but Springfield does get a mention: &ldquo;Looking at my grandfather&rsquo;s legacy, it&rsquo;s clear that his values centered firmly in unity, justice, and compassion. Billy Graham joined with Martin Luther King, Jr. and others in the fight for civil rights. He held the first large mixed-race event in then-segregated South Africa and proclaimed that &lsquo;apartheid is a sin.&rsquo; He would certainly condemn efforts to dehumanize the hardworking Haitian immigrants who are revitalizing towns like Springfield, Ohio.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Being for Martin Luther King, Jr. and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/nyt-makes-stealth-edits-elon-musk-piece-tainting-apartheid-smears-writer-lashes-critics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">against apartheid<\/a> are two of the least controversial positions one could hold as a righteous Christian during the Civil Rights era. As for Springfield &mdash; no, he probably wouldn&rsquo;t dehumanize them, but he also wouldn&rsquo;t use them as a political football, as so many who have been led to migrate here on the promise of being able to clog up the system with dubious asylum claims are doing. That&rsquo;s more dehumanizing than pointing out an Ohio town has been overwhelmed by the policies of the Biden-Harris administration.<\/p>\n<p>And she persisted: &ldquo;In Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, I see a commitment to service and a future built on unity and hope &mdash; values that were deeply important to my grandfather.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>No, what you see &mdash; at least in my brief experience with your oeuvre &mdash; is two people who believe in political values like yours. You may flatter yourself in believing that this represents service, unity and hope. Perhaps some Newsweek readers will, too. They will be the only ones.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, this was what the Rev. Franklin Graham, Billy&rsquo;s son, was doing this week:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&ldquo;FATHER, WE BELIEVE THAT YOU WILL HEAR OUR PRAYERS, WE COME TO SAY THANK YOU AND TO PRAY FOR OUR NATION. IF IT BE THY WILL THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP WILL WIN THIS ELECTION.&rdquo; &ndash; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Franklin_Graham?\">@Franklin_Graham<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6XayNLwuaP\">pic.twitter.com\/6XayNLwuaP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Real America&rsquo;s Voice (RAV) (@RealAmVoice) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RealAmVoice\/status\/1848499079434625380?\">October 21, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Our nation is guilty of many sins,&rdquo; Franklin Graham said. &ldquo;Father, we pray for President Trump. We pray for his family, those that he loves. Watch over and protect them. Guide and direct his steps, and Father, we pray that when he wakes up in the morning, the first thing he&rsquo;ll do is he&rsquo;ll turn to You and ask for Your help.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We pray for our nation, and Father, if it be thy will, that President Trump will win this election. We pray this in Jesus&rsquo; name. Amen.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The contrast couldn&rsquo;t be clearer. Billy Graham&rsquo;s son is praying about this election. His granddaughter is lecturing us about what her grandfather would have believed, absent her grandfather on this Earth to confirm it. Which one is closer to what Billy Graham would have wanted? 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Similarly, having godly parents doesn&#8217;t automatically make you godly; it&#8217;s not something passed down by inheritance. Most Christians likely understand this concept, as evidenced by biblical narratives about family. However, during the final weeks of the 2024 presidential campaign, two members of Rev. Billy Graham&#8217;s family are showcasing contrasting interpretations of evangelism. Rev. Franklin Graham has been aiding Hurricane Helene survivors and praying for GOP nominee Donald Trump, while his granddaughter is publicly supporting Kamala Harris in opinion pieces that reflect her beliefs shaped by her grandfather&#8217;s teachings\u2014beliefs that include advocating for federal abortion rights and pushing Christians to accept LGBT rights.<\/p>\n<p>Jerushah Duford, the granddaughter in question, recently published an article titled \u201cI\u2019m Billy Graham\u2019s Granddaughter and I\u2019m Voting for Kamala Harris\u201d in Newsweek. While I have my own political preferences (having lived near Chris Christie but voting for Trump), Duford has consistently leveraged her grandfather\u2019s name to promote her political agenda.<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, she expressed support for LGBTQ+ rights following George Floyd&#8217;s death and identified herself as a white heterosexual woman from a prominent Christian family who feels passionate about marginalized communities due to her upbringing rather than personal experience. Currently working as an &#8220;LGBTQ+ friendly&#8221; mental health professional in South Carolina further illustrates her stance.<\/p>\n<p>Duford\u2019s Newsweek piece emphasizes inviting God into our hearts when choosing leaders while suggesting some evangelicals may need to realign their values away from the MAGA movement\u2014a call she believes reflects strength rather than weakness.<\/p>\n<p>However, what values does she refer to? Legalizing abortion up until birth? Marrying someone with questionable moral character? It seems unlikely that &#8220;Daddy Bill&#8221; would have encouraged policies leading to overwhelming immigration issues or supported individuals whose actions contradict evangelical principles.<\/p>\n<p>Duford argues that Trump&#8217;s behavior diverges significantly from Christian values and claims his leadership drives people away from faith\u2014an assertion reflecting a broader left-wing sentiment where personal beliefs are equated with policy positions.<\/p>\n<p>While no one expects a pastor-in-chief during elections\u2014and certainly not someone like Harris who has had controversial relationships\u2014Duford cites unity and compassion as core values of her grandfather&#8217;s legacy without acknowledging how those ideals might conflict with current political realities.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast, Franklin Graham is actively praying for President Trump\u2019s success in the election while acknowledging national sins\u2014a clear divergence from his granddaughter&#8217;s approach which critiques Trump&#8217;s character based on personal interpretation of their shared heritage.<\/p>\n<p>The stark difference between Franklin Graham praying earnestly about the election versus Jerushah Duford interpreting what Billy Graham would believe today raises questions about which perspective aligns more closely with his true legacy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2358986,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Bill-Graham.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[43640,42022,10248,3634],"class_list":["post-2358985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-billy-graham","tag-franklin-graham","tag-religion","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Bill-Graham.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2358985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2358985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2358985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2358986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2358985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2358985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2358985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}