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Dear Billy Graham, STFU
Seems like a really strange place to take out an ad like that, if your actual goal is to influence the votes of the people reading the ad in its original location. WSJ readers are already going to lean significantly towards the Republican party, but even the most conservative WSJ readers probably aren’t going to be influenced by the endorsement of a decrepit evangelist. These are not low information voters, as a general rule. You’d think he would get a lot more traction in a place like USA Today or the New York Post . . . .
It’s not Billy Graham. This is Franklin Graham exploiting his elderly father’s name to further his own agenda. Franklin’s continuing trotting out his father to prop him up for a photo op to promote the divisive causes Franklin promotes is beyond shameful.
So he is urging people to vote for a Mormon?? Don’t Mormons believe that Jesus was married to multiple wives among other things? So that’s okay, but gay marriage is not? Talk about cherry-picking. I used to have respect for Billy Graham, but this election season has really been an eye-opener.