One may come to a conclusion that Billy Graham has entered the political arena once again. You can believe it or not but the greater issue is not political but moral. I applaud Billy for lending his voice with those of us who seek to uphold biblical standards of righteousness.

OT...CT really should disclose, when writing about Rev. Graham, that he, his father in law, the late Dr. L. Nelson Bell and oil magnate, the late J. Howard Pew, founded CT. Rev. Graham was Chairman of the Board for many decades, if memory serves.

Those of us who know a bit of American Christian history might recall Rev. Graham's own pastor, the late W. A. Criswell, when he got political in 1956, and the political stance of Dr. Bell's "Southern Presbyterian Journal" in the 1950s.

Rev. Criswell later changed his mind on race segregation, “Never Had I Been So Blind,” apparently believing that the Bible was literally true in a different way from how he believed the Bible to have been literally true in 1956. Rev. Graham said this: “My Pastor and I have never seen eye to eye on the race question.” Dr. Bell's SPJ evolved into World magazine. (“Never Had I Been So Blind”: W. A. Criswell’s
“Change” on Racial Segregation by Curtis W. Freeman; The Journal of Southern Religion Vol. X, 2007)

The advocates of gay marriage want us to believe that gay marriage is the equivalent of straight marriage, but is it, really? Let’s take a look: 1) Sexual relations in straight marriage involve body parts that God designed for each other, whereas sexual relations in gay marriage involve body parts that God designed for vastly different purposes; 2) God approves of and blesses straight marriage, but He doesn’t even recognize gay “marriage” as being legitimate, because it doesn’t meet the requirements of His definition; 3) straight marriage can fulfill God’s primary purpose for sexual intercourse by producing children to “fill the earth”, whereas homosexual “marriage” cannot; 4) adults who were raised in gay households are 12 times more likely to self-identify as gay than adults raised in heterosexual households, 5) 58% of the children of lesbians and 33% of the children of gay men self-identified as homosexual as adults (compared to only 2%-3% self-identified adult homosexuals in the general population), and 6) children raised by homosexual parents are more likely than those raised by heterosexual parents to suffer from poor impulse control, depression, suicidal thoughts, require mental health therapy, choose cohabitation, be unfaithful to partners, contract sexually transmitted diseases, be sexually molested, have lower income levels, drink excessively and smoke marijuana. Now, I don’t know what your definition of “equivalent” is, but in my definition there is no room for such nonsense! See more at http://rethinkingtheology.com/2012/07/18/gay-marriage-did-god-change-his-mind/

I wonder of anyone who endorses Same Gendered Marriage realizes that in doing so is also, inadvertently, endorsing sodomy????

The thing that will be most remembered this election cycle is the flip flopping of Mitt Romney and the flip flopping of Billy Graham. Billy has turned his back on defending the character of God that is assailed by blasphemous comments by mormons for over 182 years. Romney practices vodooistic (receiving guidance from wearing magical mormon underwear) and occultic practices (personally doing proxy baptisms for the dead) and his endorsing communication with the dead. Romney believes in polytheism (there are many Gods Adam.Jesus,Father,Holy Spirit) and denigrates God by stating he was once a man,has regular sex with his eternal wives and his scandalous founder (Joseph Smith) reigns with God in heaven and has veto power on who gets into heaven.
Romney despises christians and finances their conversion to the only true religion. He used Billy for endorsements amongst evangelicals and BGEA discarded the Cult label signifying that even for one of Gods greatest evangelists, finishing well is not easy..enduring to the end is a great spiritual battle that gets confusing with bad advice from close confidants. To endorse a man that has demonstrated extremely bad moral choices,denies the supremacy of the bible,believes in universal salvation,creates his own acceptable God image and subscribes to horrible teaching about our Precious Lord is hard to accept. Our main role as believers is to Glorify God and enjoy him forever. Pharisees damned Jesus for not adhering to their interpretations of rules and practices...In the midst of all of this Jesus glorified his Father..He did not deny the role he had been assigned. Now we have confusion that has been complicated by a great Christian Statesman endorsing a Satanic Cultist.

James Aist - I can understand why you may not have given a citation for your statistics. You used a notoriously unreliable and much discredited source, Paul Cameron. However, perhaps you used a source which used Cameron's statistics and you missed a footnote?

Paul D. Cameron, PhD, Chairman of the Family Research Institute, et al.; May 2006 article, "Children of Homosexuals and Transsexuals More Apt to be Homosexual," published in the Journal of Biosocial Science.

Journal of Biosocial Science use to be titled the "Eugenics Review" according to a research library catalog. It's "Published for the Galton Foundation by Blackwell Scientific Publications." The Galton Foundation is named after the father of the eugenics movement, Sir Francis Galton. I wonder what I'll find for the Blackwell Scientific Publications. Thanks for making a dull day more interesting.

I suggest that you come up with more reputable sources for your statistics