Campaign Intervention Olympics: Billy Graham Evangelistic Association

I don’t know how I ever made it through law school without all the “show and  tell” we have today.  I need pictures.  Here is a nice classroom exhibit for prohibited campaign intervention.  The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association puts out an election related magazine called Decision – The Evangelical Voice for Today.  That’s the cover of the latest issue above.  The Association might have avoided a campaign intervention complaint had it used the subtitle “socialism vs. capitalism” maybe.  They didn’t and now Ron Reagan and his burn in hell friends have filed a slam dunk complaint.  Nothing can or will be done about it, though, so there is no need to worry.  The IRS and the Association both know it.  We all do.  Here is part of the Freedom From Religion Foundation complaint:

The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association recently distributed a special election issue of its Decision magazine focused on the 2024 election. Please see a copy enclosed. The cover page of this election guide issue says, “SOCIALISM VS. FREEDOM” with corresponding photos of Kamala Harris and Donald Trump.

In an opening letter, Franklin Graham denigrates the Democratic party’s platform:

Progressive, liberal thought and activism have so contaminated the mainstream of American life and culture that once-unthinkable abominations such as same-sex marriage, abortion on demand and transgender advocacy have become dogma in one major party’s platform. He then tells readers to “vote for candidates who best align with and stand for Biblical principles.” This is followed by a cherry-picked comparison between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump intended to encourage readers to vote for Donald Trump over Kamala Harris.

Outside of the comparison, the election guide includes a quote from Donald Trump from a Moms for Liberty event in June 2023:

Our enemies are waging a war on freedom and faith, on science and religion, on history and tradition, on law and democracy, on the family, on children, on America itself.

Funny how FFRF points out the apparent pictorial correspondence of good and bad with the Harris and Trump.  An idiot might not have seen the correspondence otherwise and that’s why the Association could pass the straight face test. 

darryll k. jones