Vetting Must Prevent Those Who Will Not Accept Our Way Of Life

Rev. Graham on Trump's Immigration Order: No Entry If You Reject U.S. Principles -- 'Sharia Law Is Not Compatible'

By Michael W. Chapman | January 31, 2017 | 12:37 PM EST

Rev. Franklin Graham. (BGEA)

Commenting on criticism from liberals and many Democrats about President Donald J. Trump's executive order on immigration to better screen for terrorists, evangelical leader Franklin Graham said people coming to the United States must accept our "principles of freedom, democracy, and liberty," or they should not come here. He also stressed that Islamic Sharia law "is not compatible" with American beliefs or culture. 

In a Feb. 1 post on Facebook, Rev. Graham said, "I think that a thorough vetting process really needs to apply to people coming into the U.S. from all countries—not just 7. We have to be sure that the philosophies of those entering our country are compatible with our Constitution."

"If a person does not agree with our principles of freedom, democracy, and liberty, which we cherish, they should not be allowed to come," he said. "Without question, Sharia law is not compatible."

Sharia is the Islamic law -- rules and practices -- that faithful Muslims are required to follow in their daily lives. 

"There have been a lot of protests and discussion about President Donald J. Trump’s executive action on immigration," said Rev. Graham in his post.  "Some people seem to have forgotten that the priority of the president of the United States is protecting the Constitution and the safety of Americans. That’s exactly what President Trump is trying to do."

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"Taking action to secure our borders had to start somewhere," he said.  "Is it perfect? Maybe not, but it is a first step. As they work on solutions during this 90-day travel ban, unfortunately there are some innocent families caught in this time of transition."

As for some Christians who are critical of Trump's order, Rev. Graham said he believes the best way to help the suffering is to provide relief and ongoing assistance "in their own countries." and if that is not possible, then to help them in safe zones near their homeland. 

"Some are also criticizing Christians who support the president’s position on immigration—and I’m one of those being criticized," said Rev. Graham. "But we have to realize that the president’s job is not the same as the job of the church."

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"As Christians we are clearly taught in the Bible to care for the poor and oppressed," he said.  "At Samaritan's Purse we have been working in the Middle East for over 30 years. We’ve provided things like food, heaters, blankets, coats, shelter plastic, and more for tens of thousands of refugees there and in other places around the world. We just opened a 55-bed field trauma hospital in northern Iraq where we’re treating Muslims who are being wounded by other Muslims in the fight over Mosul."

"As Christians we are commanded to help all, regardless of religious background or ethnicity, like the Good Samaritan Jesus shared about in the Bible," said Graham.  "Our job is to show God’s love and compassion. I believe the best way to help is to reach out and help these people in their own countries."

"I support the establishment of safe zones inside Syria and Iraq that would be protected by the international community until a political solution is found," he said. "We need to pray for political solutions that would bring peace and allow them to return to their homes as they desire."

When A Great Country Declines, Morals Are The First To Go!

FRANKLIN GRAHAM RIPS 'WICKED AND FILTHY' TRANSGENDER ORDINANCE

Privacy blown to 'smithereens' in evangelistic association's hometown

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A state lawmaker in North Carolina is warning that the city of Charlotte has blown privacy to “smithereens” and the speaker of the state House says there’s support for a special legislative session to correct that.

The fight is over the recent vote by council members in Charlotte, where the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association is headquartered, that will allow “people to use the bathroom of their choice.”

The issue has played out in several other major venues across the U.S., most recently in Houston, where voters rejected out of hand a lesbian mayor’s imposition of the same transgender protection plan.

Charlotte’s adoption of the idea even drew the wrath of renowned Christian leader Franklin Graham, chief of Samaritan’s Purse and the BGEA.

“It’s not over though,” he reported on his Facebook page. “North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory has been clear that this is a bad policy and said if the city passed it, immediate legislative action would likely be taken by the state.”

Graham wrote, “I hope they will take swift action to strike down this dangerous ordinance or bring it to a referendum for voters to decide. If this were put to a vote in Charlotte, I’m sure it would be overwhelmingly defeated by Democrats and Republicans alike.”

The ordinance means homosexuals and transgenders get legal permission, and, in fact, legal protection, for a man who says he feels like he’s a woman to be allowed to use a women’s restroom or locker room facility, even if it violates the privacy of women or young girls who also may be there.

In a report at NPR’s WFAE, House Speaker Tim Moore suggested an immediate legislative session to derail Charlotte’s plan, citing the imminent danger to public safety.

“Folks should have some sense of privacy when they go to the restroom, and this ordinance just blows that to smithereens,” Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Buck Newton told the station.

The change is to take effect April 1 and the General Assembly is set to meet starting April 25.

WND reported at the time that the vote by the city council was 7-4 for the open restrooms plan.

“Shame on Charlotte Mayor Jennifer Roberts and the city council members,” Franklin wrote then. He said the ordinance “would allow people to use the bathroom of their choice, not based on their biological sex.”

He praised council members Ed Driggs, Claire Fallon, Greg Phipps and Kenny Smith “for having the courage to do the right thing and vote NO.”

Just ahead of the vote, he said, “It’s hard to believe that such a ludicrous law would even be seriously considered – and even harder to believe that at least 8 of 11 council members have said they would vote for it!”

“Are people just not thinking clearly? This law would allow pedophiles, perverts and predators into women’s bathrooms. This is wicked and it’s filthy. To think that my granddaughters could go into a restroom and a man be in there exposing himself … what are we setting our children and grandchildren up for? There’s not a public restroom in Charlotte that would be safe!” he said.

He said it should be inconceivable that Charlotte’s mayor and the council members “have succumbed to the pressures from depraved sexual activists and are willing to put women and girls at risk like this.”

He pointed out that the same plan was defeated a year ago and it shouldn’t even have been brought back by the mayor.

McCrory said the transgender provisions opening up public restrooms to all is a concern.

“It is not only the citizens of Charlotte that will be impacted by changing basic restroom and locker room norms but also citizens from across our state and nation who visit and work in Charlotte,” the governor said. “This shift in policy could also create major public safety issues by putting citizens in possible danger from deviant actions by individuals taking improper advantage of a bad policy.”

He said he would expect immediate state legislative intervention, and said he would support it.

WND reported only a few weeks ago that the coalition of pastors that defeated Houston Mayor Annise Parker’s transgender agenda at the ballot box were volunteering to help pastors in Dallas in the same fight.

Other cities, from Oregon to Maryland, under pressure of homosexual, lesbian and transgender activists, already have made the jump to open their public restrooms.

One of the key leaders in the Houston fight, Rev. Dave Welch, president of the Texas Pastor Council, said the change “not only opens but essentially removes the doors of women’s restrooms, showers and locker rooms.”

The Houston fight lasted nearly two years and ended late in 2015 when citizens, who were allowed to vote over the mayor’s objections and only by order of the state Supreme Court, soundly rejected Parker’s agenda, 62 percent to 38 percent.

Citizens already are working, under the banner of the North Carolina Values Coalition, to fight the special provisions designed to benefit transgenders.

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Instead Of Accepting The "Intevitable" Nature of Ebola, Why Not Put In Protections For US?

Ebola Spread to US 'Inevitable': CDC Chief

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Ebola's spread to the United States is "inevitable" due to the nature of global airline travel, but any outbreak is not likely to be large, US health authorities said Thursday.

 

Already one man with dual US-Liberian citizenship has died from Ebola, after becoming sick on a plane from Monrovia to Lagos and exposing as many as seven other people in Nigeria.
 

More cases of Ebola moving across borders via air travel are expected, as West Africa faces the largest outbreak of the hemorrhagic virus in history, said Tom Frieden, the head of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
 

The virus spreads by close contact with bodily fluids and has killed 932 people and infected more than 1,700 since March in Sierra Leone, Guinea, Nigeria and Liberia.

"It is certainly possible that we could have ill people in the US who develop Ebola after having been exposed elsewhere," Frieden told a hearing of the House Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights and International Organizations.

"We are all connected and inevitably there will be travelers, American citizens and others who go from these three countries -- or from Lagos if it doesn't get it under control -- and are here with symptoms," he said.

 

"But we are confident that there will not be a large Ebola outbreak in the US."

There is no treatment or vaccine for Ebola, but it can be contained if patients are swiftly isolated and adequate protective measures are used, he said.

Healthcare workers treating Ebola patients should wear goggles, face masks, gloves and protective gowns, according to CDC guidelines.

 

However, Ken Isaacs, vice president of program and government relations at the Christian aid group Samaritan's Purse warned that the world is woefully ill-equipped to handle the spread of Ebola.

 

"It is clear that the disease is uncontained and it is out of control in West Africa," he told the hearing. The international response to the disease has been a failure."

Samaritan's Purse arranged the medical evacuation of US doctor Kent Brantly and days later, missionary Nancy Writebol, from Monrovia to a sophisticated Atlanta hospital.

Both fell ill with Ebola while treating patients in the Liberian capital, and their health is now improving.

"One of the things that I recognized during the evacuation of our staff is that there is only one airplane in the world with one chamber to carry a level-four pathogenic disease victim," Isaacs said.

 
He also said personal protective gear is hard to find in Liberia, and warned of the particular danger of kissing the corpse farewell during funeral rites.

"In the hours after death with Ebola, that is when the body is most infectious because the body is loaded with the virus," he said."Everybody that touches the corpse is another infection."

 

Ebola can cause fever, muscle aches, vomiting, diarrhea and bleeding. It has been fatal in about 55 percent of cases during this outbreak.

 
Last month, Patrick Sawyer, a Liberian finance ministry employee who was also a naturalized American citizen, brought the virus to Lagos.

Sawyer had traveled to Nigeria from Liberia via Togo's capital Lome, and was visibly sick upon arrival at the international airport in Lagos on July 20.

He died in quarantine on July 25.

As many as seven people who had close contact with Sawyer have fallen ill with Ebola, Nigeria's Health Minister Onyebuchi Chukwu said. One of them, a nurse, died on Tuesday.
 

Frieden said helping West African nations screen passengers who are departing airports could help contain the virus.
 

A Saudi Arabian man who had recently traveled to Sierra Leone and showed Ebola-like symptoms died Wednesday of a heart attack, but authorities in Riyadh did not reveal the results of Ebola tests that were done on the man.
 

A suspected New York patient tested negative on Wednesday.

Meanwhile, Benin, which shares a border with Nigeria, said it was running tests on two potential Ebola cases. Both patients are now in isolation, authorities said.

Ebola first emerged in 1976, and has killed more than 1,500 people since then. Within weeks, the death toll from this outbreak alone is expected to surpass that number.
 

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