Perspective: What happened after my husband was attacked for critiquing Franklin Graham’s Pete Buttigieg tweets
President Trump speaks with pastor Franklin Graham after a funeral service at the Billy Graham Library for the Rev. Billy Graham in March 2018 in Charlotte. By Nancy French May 9 at 8:36 AM When my husband, writer David French, criticized Franklin Graham for political double standards, the backlash after his recent National Review article revealed the fallacy of the evangelical “lesser of two evils” voting strategy in 2016.
His article started the controversy, because he pointed out that Graham was righteously opposed to Bill Clinton’s sexual misconduct in 1998. “If [Clinton] will lie to or mislead his wife and daughter, those with whom he is most intimate, what will prevent him from doing the same to the American public?” Graham wrote in a Wall Street Journal article.
Judging Clinton’s and Buttigieg’s sex lives, while ignoring Trump’s, doesn’t pass the straight-face test, let alone any sort of systematic theology. But when my husband pointed this out, the evangelical world pounced.This reveals more than a partisan double standard. It also reveals the unintended consequences of the church’s crass political expediency of 2016.
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