Franklin Graham fires back at Hillary Clinton: I'm not deplorable to God
Famed American evangelist Franklin Graham went on social media to respond to Hillary Clinton's "basketful of deplorables" remark and said that God does not see him as deplorable.
"I'm not 'a deplorable' to God, even though I might be in the eyes of Hillary Clinton. What about you?" Graham wrote on Facebook.
Clinton remarked during a fundraiser last Friday that half of Trump's supporters belong to a "basketful of deplorables." She went on to describe them as "racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, [and] Islamophobic." Clinton apologized the next day and stated that generalizing the "half" was wrong.
Graham noted in his post that all sin is deplorable to God. He quoted John 3:16 and stated that God cannot tolerate sin.
"So much so that when Jesus carried our sins to the cross, God had to turn His back and could not even look on Him. Jesus died for our sins, took our sins to the grave, and rose again triumphantly to life on the third day," Graham said.
"If we confess our sins, repent, and believe on Him as our Savior, our deplorable sins are washed away and we can have a right standing before God," he added.
Earlier this week, Graham also criticized Clinton's running mate Tim Kaine for suggesting that the Catholic Church will reverse its position on gay marriage.
Graham has not endorsed a candidate so far but he urged Christians to vote in the coming elections. He also told them to encourage their family and friends to register and be informed about the candidates.
During his visit to Louisiana, the evangelist has said that he has no faith in either the Republican and Democratic parties. He was one of the pastors who attended Donald Trump's closed door meeting with 900 pastors in New York but he insisted that his presence was not an endorsement of Trump.
The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association published a special election 2016 edition of Decision magazine. The special issue compares the different platforms of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.
