Franklin Graham praises John McCain’s “personal faith and moral clarity.”

June 30, 2008

ONENEWSNOW reports on a recent meeting between John McCain and Billy Graham and his son, Franklin, at the family’s mountaintop retreat.

You can read the complete article here but I would like to focus on something Franklin Graham said.

After the meeting, Franklin Graham issued a statement praising the Arizona senator’s “personal faith and his moral clarity.”

“The senator and I both have sons currently serving in the military, and also have a common interest in aviation,” Franklin Graham said. “I was impressed by his personal faith and his moral clarity on important social issues facing America today.”

I resonate with the patriotic sentiment, I am thankful for those who are willing to die in service to protect their country. It’s that statement about McCain’s personal faith and moral clarity that just floors me. Given other statements by Franklin in the past, maybe this should not be so scandalous to me, but I am sorry, it is.

McCain, to be praised for his “personal faith and his moral clarity”. Wait a minute, did I read that correctly.

I would like to know what’s so impressive about McCain’s faith and morality.

The McCain machine sees evangelicals as only having one choice, McCain obviously. Check out this quote and see how it sets with you.

Bob Heckman, who leads McCain’s outreach to conservatives, said voters will see clear differences — and McCain’s values better dovetail with their views than do Obama’s, he added.

“Part of our job is to remind them they’re down to a binary choices,” Heckman said. — Fox News

I think the ones needing the reminder are those running the McCain campaign. I challenge anyone to show me a portion of scripture from God’s Word (a Christian’s rule for faith and practice) where he must vote for the ‘best of the worst’ if you will. I will vote my conscience thank you very much. That conscience tells me McCain is a politician first and foremost and he is doing everything he can to win the Christian vote. All the while, very little is really known about McCain’s “personal” faith. That’s one of the big problems we should have with McCain, his unwillingness to boldly make statements about his faith.

I would say, Personal faith in what? What kind of faith are you referring to? Are you talking about the kind of faith that would characterize someone standing firm on the biblical gospel as intolerant? As Christians we are to boldly uphold the truths of the bible in love. To withhold these truths for fear of offense is certainly offensive, but not in the way many would expect. It is an offense to God when we hold back the truth in our fear of men.

In my way of seeing things, the so called “binary choice” is no choice at all.

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