Conservatives Have a Plan to Block Women in the Draft

The Senate voted 85-13 Tuesday to advance an annual defense policy bill that would require women to register for the draft. But that doesn’t mean the provision is guaranteed to become law.

Opponents of the draft measure will have an opportunity to kill it when the House and Senate reconcile the differences between their versions of the National Defense Authorization Act in conference.

An annual authorization bill, this year’s $602 billion National Defense Authorization Act sets the budget and outlines spending priorities for defense agencies. The White House has already threatened to veto the legislation.

The time of the conference and the exact number of conferees from the House and Senate has not been determined. But Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., who is guaranteed a seat at the negotiation table as the senior member of the Armed Services Committee, already announced he plans to strip out the controversial measure.

Inhofe promised in a statement to try to remove, in conference, “the unnecessary Senate language requiring women to register for the draft.”

That’s only possible because the House already stripped a proposed draft requirement from its version of the bill back in May. That makes conference, a GOP aide tells The Daily Signal, the best time to address the issue.

Senate conservatives are banking on House Republicans bailing them out on the issue. The House version of the legislation passed with bipartisan support, the aide explained, showing that the bill can make it to President Barack Obama’s desk without the draft provision.

In the last few weeks, the draft issue has dominated debate in the Senate. Opponents argue that requiring women to register for the Selective Service System would restrict their freedom. Proponents reply that expanding the draft is about equality.

Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, wrote an amendment that would prohibit the government from compelling women to sign up for Selective Service and would direct the Pentagon to conduct a study into the merits of mandatory military service.

“It’s one thing for women who want to be in combat and have earned it to do that, but forcing women to fight is a totally different matter,” Lee said in an interview with The Daily Signal.

But after pushing his bill in the press, Lee declined to forward the amendment on the Senate floor.

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., opposed Lee’s amendment but supported bringing it to the floor for a vote.

During a floor fight, Lee blocked consideration of McCain’s amendment that would expand visas for Afghan interpreters. The Utah lawmaker was attempting to use his objection as leverage to advance another amendment that would prevent the government from indefinitely detaining American citizens linked to terror.

“At any time, a senator had the opportunity to go to the floor and request a vote on his amendment,” a senate aide told The Daily Signal. “The only reason there was not a vote on Sen. Lee’s amendment was because he did not request a vote on it.”

The Utah senator would only release the measure, an aide from Lee’s office said, if leadership guaranteed that the Senate would vote on both the detention and the draft amendments. Ultimately, neither received a vote.

It’s not clear if Lee’s amendment had the votes necessary to advance. Failure on the floor would have made it more difficult for conservatives to cut out the provision later during conference.

Heritage Action for America opposes the legislation, saying that it would “allow the American military to be a playground for President Obama’s social engineering.”

Only six Republicans—Lee, Mike Crapo and James Risch of Idaho, Ted Cruz of Texas, Rand Paul of Kentucky, and Ben Sasse of Nebraska—voted against the bill. (For more from the author of “Conservatives Have a Plan to Block Women in the Draft” please click HERE)

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HUMA ABEDIN: Hillary Clinton’s Handmaiden of Jihad

Hillary Clinton longtime lieutenant Huma Abedin’s exhaustively documented connections to Islamic terror are receiving renewed attention thanks to a new column written by political gadfly Roger Stone.

Abedin, now vice-chairman of Clinton’s campaign, is the person “closest to the most powerful woman in American politics and perhaps the next President,” Stone writes at Breitbart. “Huma has been described variously as Hillary’s ‘body woman,’ a sort of glorified go-to personal maid, gentle confidant, and by others as an Islamic spy.”

“She may be all of these things,” writes Stone, who is close to GOP presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump.

“Abedin was deeply involved with the establishment of Hillary’s private email server, which was used for all of her work as Secretary of State. Now, since we know Hillary had hundreds of classified or top-secret documents on her vulnerable server (despite her early lies saying she did not), any faith in Huma’s judgment — at the very least — has been demolished. You will soon ask yourself, ‘how did this woman get a security clearance?’”

bedin’s background, including her suspect ties to Saudi Arabia, was previously examined by FrontPage but sounding the alarm about her connections to the Islamist underworld takes on a heightened urgency now that polls suggest Clinton is dangerously close to assuming the presidency. Abedin has been joined at the hip to Hillary for decades and would probably be a major figure such as policy director or chief of staff in the White House if she wins.

The power this daughter of jihad could — once again — wield over Americans and world affairs is truly frightening. For all we know, Abedin may have played a role in shutting down counter-terrorism measures that could have been useful in preventing Islamist attacks in the U.S. and abroad.

Stone’s report was part rebuttal to a lie-packed column earlier this year from Media Matters for America, the “conservative misinformation” monitoring group Clinton brags about founding. Placed in the unusual position of having to attack its liberal allies in the mainstream media, the MMfA post purported to debunk a relatively mild Vanity Fair profile that examined Abedin’s Islamist ties.

Stone’s report comes in the wake of the jihadist bloodbath perpetrated early Sunday morning by Omar Mir Siddique Mateen at Pulse, a popular gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla. Police said Mateen wielded a semiautomatic Sig Sauer MCX rifle and a Glock 17 handgun to kill 49 innocent victims and wound another 53 in what has been called the worst mass shooting in American history and the worst domestic terrorist attack since 9/11.

It was widely and incorrectly reported by the Second Amendment-hating media that an AR-15 rifle was used, probably because it fits the Left’s predetermined narrative. The Left fetishizes the wildly popular AR-15, portraying it as a monstrous weapon of mass destruction because in 2012 it was used in the mass shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., and the movie theater in Aurora, Colo. It was also used in the mass shootings last year at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Ore., and in San Bernardino, Calif.

Islamic State claimed responsibility for the weekend attack after it took place. Mateen himself “claimed allegiance to the Islamic State and praised the Boston Marathon bombers,” before being killed by police on the scene, the New York Times reports.

The Orlando attack is the 86th Islamist terror plot in the United States since Sept. 11, 2001, according to the Daily Signal. It is the 20th Islamist attack or plot “aimed at large public gatherings, such as bars and restaurants, shopping malls, parks, and conventions” and the sixth Islamist domestic terror plot or attack in 2016 alone.

FrontPage readers already know the basics about Abedin and her family’s generational ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.

Born in 1976 in Kalamazoo, Mich., Abedin’s mother is Pakistani-born Saleha Mahmood Abedin, widow of Indian-born Zyed Abedin, an academic who taught at Wahhabist Saudi Arabia’s King Abdulaziz University. Mr. Abedin was affiliated with the Muslim Students Association (MSA) at Western Michigan University. The MSA was founded in the 1960s by the Muslim World League (MWL), Saudi Arabia’s largest charity, which is also a militant organization with links to Osama bin Laden.

In 1978 the Abedins moved to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Islamist Abdullah Omar Naseef hired Mr. Abedin to work at the Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs (IMMA), an Islamic think tank. Huma’s parents became members of the editorial board of IMMA’s publication, the Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, which Andrew C. McCarthy has said seeks “to grow an unassimilated, aggressive population of Islamic supremacists who will gradually but dramatically alter the character of the West.”

Naseef himself is an extremist with ties to al-Qaeda. In 1983 he became secretary-general of the MWL, an organization McCarthy calls “the Muslim Brotherhood’s principal vehicle for the international propagation of Islamic supremacist ideology.” Huma’s mother became an official representative of MWL in the 1990s. When her husband died in 1994, Mrs. Abedin became the IMMA’s director. She currently serves as editor-in-chief of its journal, identified on its website as “Saleha S. Mahmood.” She is also a founding member of the related group called the Muslim Sisterhood.

When Huma returned to the U.S. and interned in the Clinton White House she was simultaneously a member of the executive board of George Washington University’s MSA. From 1996 to 2008, Abedin was assistant editor at the Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs. Her brother, Hassan Abedin, and sister, Heba Abedin Khalid, are both editors at the publication.

The MWL has received more than $1.3 billion from the Saudi government since 1962, Stone notes.

Naseef, the MWL, and Pakistan created the Rabita Trust in 1988 which a month after 9/11 was designated as a terrorist front and its assets frozen. The Treasury Department said the trust is run by Wa’el Hamza Jalaidan, who founded al-Qaeda with Osama bin Laden. Jalaidan’s assets are also frozen.

A radical cleric named Abdullah Azzam and his protégé, bin Laden, created an organization called Maktab al-Khidamat or MAK in Pakistan in the 1980s to recruit terrorists and raise money. Azzam subsisted on money from the MWL, Stone writes. MAK founders operated in Peshawar out of the office of the MWL and the Muslim Brotherhood. MWL funded MAK using Saudi money “that would eventually go to jihad against the West,” Stone adds. While bin Laden and Azzam rubbed elbows at the MWL’s office the league’s president was Naseef, benefactor of the Abedin family.

On 9/11, Huma was working for Clinton, then a U.S. senator from New York. As the Twin Towers fell Abedin failed to step forward “to shed light” on Naseef, the MWL, or the Rabita Trust. “Sen. Clinton and Huma Abedin betrayed every New Yorker and every American with their silence,” Stone writes.

He notes that on Sept. 18, 2006, while earning a $28,000 annual salary, Abedin purchased a $649,000 Washington, D.C. apartment. “[W]here did the money come from?”

Stone adds:

“We’ve caught the greatest spies due to their spending well beyond their salaries. At the least, what to make of someone who has lived for 17 years in Saudi Arabia, with parents who have close, long-standing ties with people connected to terrorist organizations, and then comes to the U.S. and within two years gets a job as the First Lady’s assistant?”

“This isn’t some minor aide,” Stone writes. “Huma Abedin has been at Clinton’s side for decades, and it’s time America got some answers.”

Recall that Clinton served as secretary of state from Jan. 21, 2009 to Feb. 1, 2013, during which she poured gasoline on the Muslim world and lit a match. She failed to support the “green revolution” uprising in Iran in 2009. She engineered the “Arab Spring,” a period of civil unrest, wars, and revolutions in the Arab world that began in late 2010 and was followed by the Arab Winter, a backlash that made Islamism and authoritarianism ascendant in the region. She helped the Muslim Brotherhood overthrow longtime U.S. ally Hosni Mubarak in 2012 to clear the way for their candidate, Mohamed Morsi, to assume the Egyptian presidency.

Hillary helped to oust Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi, a move that plunged Libya into chaos. In that anarchic environment Muslim terrorists attacked a U.S. facility in Benghazi, Libya, on the 11th anniversary of 9/11. Clinton failed to provide proper security and did not send U.S. armed forces to attempt a rescue, leaving four Americans dead. She also lied about the nature of the military-style attack, claiming it arose out of Muslims’ anger at an obscure anti-Islam video.

While Hillary was getting people including U.S. allies like Qaddafi killed, ruining lives, undermining American power, advancing political Islam, and lying to the faces of the Benghazi victims’ families, what exactly was Abedin doing behind the scenes?

Stone is right.

Americans need to know what, if any, role Abedin played in Clinton’s decisions that put Americans in harm’s way, started wars, and caused governments to fall.

The stakes are too high not to know. (For more from the author of “HUMA ABEDIN: Hillary Clinton’s Handmaiden of Jihad” please click HERE)

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Sources Say Major Arrest Likely in Connection to Orlando Shooting

As federal investigators continue piecing together the events leading up to the nation’s deadliest mass shooting, one name continues to surface as a possible accessory to the heinous crime.

While the FBI has identified 29-year-old Omar Mateen, killed by the police at the scene, as the man who opened fire in an Orlando gay night club early Sunday morning, agents believe his wife might be the key to learning more about his motives.

According to developing reports Tuesday, Noor Salman has cooperated with authorities thus far in their investigation into her husband’s actions. Some of what she has revealed, however, has led agents to believe she might have had advanced notice of Mateen’s murderous plans.

Such knowledge, if confirmed, could result in scores of accessory charges against her. Reports indicate the chances are high that she will be arrested in connection with the shooting that left 49 dead and dozens more injured.

Fox News cited multiple sources who confirmed Salman revealed during an interview with investigators that Mateen told her he intended to commit an act of violence. Furthermore, the gunman might have called his wife from Pulse — the nightclub he targeted — during the rampage.

Salman, with whom Mateen reportedly had a 3-year-old son, also reportedly revealed that she joined her husband when he purchased firearms shortly before the shooting.

As Western Journalism previously reported, Salman is believed to have driven Mateen to Pulse before the shooting as he scouted potential locations for the attack. (For more from the author of “Sources Say Major Arrest Likely in Connection to Orlando Shooting” please click HERE)

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Here Are the Celebrities — Including More Than a Few Liberals — Who Aren’t Ashamed to Pack Heat

While it does not take much effort to find a Hollywood star or popular singer complain about Americans’ constitutional right to bear arms, there are plenty of celebrities who proudly pack heat and work to ensure that freedom is preserved for future generations. Below are a few that surprised us the most.

James Earl Jones

Renowned screen and voice actor James Earl Jones has been an advocate for gun rights and, at least at the time of his 2004 autobiography, was a card-carrying member of the National Rifle Association.

He made it clear, however, that his support of the Second Amendment does not make him an ideologue.

“When it comes to the right-wing politics of the NRA,” he said, “I don’t get into that. I just believe in my right to have a gun in my house.”

Johnny Depp

The star of popular films including Edward Scissorhands and the Pirates of the Caribbean series is also a fan of the shooting sports.

In a 2009 interview, Johnny Depp recalled fondly firing a variety of guns as a youth.

“We would just go out and line up a bunch of cans and shoot with rifles, handguns and at times, submachine guns,” he said. “When I was a kid it was a controlled atmosphere, we weren’t shooting at humans; we were shooting at cans and bottles mostly.”

He affirmed the experience is one he wants to share with his own children.

“I will most certainly take my kids out for target practice,” he said.

Kurt Russell

Shortly after the 2015 mass shooting in San Bernardino, Calif., actor Kurt Russell explained why he believes efforts to disarm Americans is foolish.

“Now is not a good time to lay down your weapons,” he opined. “How will you protect yourself?”

The self-described “hardcore” libertarian went on to assert that gun control is an inherently flawed concept.

Referring to a previous dust-up he and an anti-gun reporter engaged in just prior to the interview, Russell said: “I just didn’t get where he was going saying that gun control was a magic wand of fixing the situation with terrorism. That isn’t going to stop them from what they want to do.”

Ice-T

Though it might not be shocking to hear a gangsta rapper speak fondly of his firearms, Ice-T has expressed some thought-provoking insight on a topic he thinks should be important to all Americans.

The rapper-turned-actor said in an interview with British media that he believes the nation’s founders included the Second Amendment in the Bill of Rights for a very specific reason.

“The right to bear arms is because that’s the last form of defense against tyranny,” he said. “– not to hunt. It’s to protect yourself from the police.”

Kid Rock

Eclectic entertainer Kid Rock is outspoken on a number of controversial topics — not the least of which is his stance on guns.

“I’m always buying more guns,” the Republican rocker announced in a 2015 interview with The Guardian.

Referring to his ever-widening collection, he said that he currently has “everything from a Civil War cannon to an MP5 machine gun and old police guns.”

Vince Vaughn

Echoing Ice-T’s assessment of the Second Amendment, comedic actor Vince Vaughn revealed in a 2015 interview with GQ that he is in favor of unfettered access to guns as provided in the Bill of Rights.

“We don’t have the right to bear arms because of burglars,” he insisted. “We have the right to bear arms to resist the supreme power of a corrupt and abusive government. It’s not about duck hunting; it’s about the ability of the individual.”

Taking his point further, Vaughn noted that most of the nation’s most deadly shootings had one thing in common.

“They’ve only happened in places that don’t allow guns,” he said. “These people are sick in the head and are going to kill innocent people.” (For more from the author of “Here Are the Celebrities — Including More Than a Few Liberals — Who Aren’t Ashamed to Pack Heat” please click HERE)

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One Charge Against a Pro-Life Planned Parenthood Videomaker Dropped

In what David Daleiden’s lawyers are calling a “huge win for the pro-life movement” one charge against the undercover Planned Parenthood video producer has been dropped.

Daleiden is the producer of the Center for Medical Progress videos exposing Planned Parenthood’s illegal sale of baby body parts.

Pro-life advocates had expected that an investigation into Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast in Houston would result in criminal action against the abortion provider, and were shocked when Daleiden and his colleague Sandra Merritt were indicted instead.

But now, a judge has ruled in favor of Daeiden by dropping the Class A misdemeanor charge for prohibition of the purchase and sale of human organs.

Breitbart News reports:

The judge ruled that the court does not have jurisdiction over the case. The judge ruled for Daleiden as a matter of law. Daleiden lawyer Jared Woodfill told Breitbart Texas, “This is a huge win for the pro-life movement. The charges brought by Harris County District Attorney Devon Anderson were spurious at best.”

Daleiden’s other lawyer, Terry Yates, told Breitbart Texas, “I think the judge’s ruling is very sound. She came to her conclusion before addressing the arguments in the motions to quash the indictment.” He said there was many good legal reasons for dismissing the charges laid out in their motions.

Daleiden and Merritt are still fighting a felony charge for tampering with a government record and a misdemeanor charge for offering to buy fetal tissue. (For more from the author of “One Charge Against a Pro-Life Planned Parenthood Videomaker Dropped” please click HERE)

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Ex-Wife Says Orlando Shooter Was Gay, FBI Told Her to Keep Quiet About His Sexual Orientation

The ex-wife of Orlando mass killer Omar Mateen claimed Monday that she believed he was homosexual — as it was revealed that he frequented the gay nightclub where he staged the nation’s worst massacre in modern times.

Sitora Yusufiy, who was married to Mateen in 2009 for three months, made the shocking claim on Brazilian television station SBT Brazil.

Her fiancé, Marco Dias, speaking in Portuguese on her behalf, said Yusufiy believed that Mateen had “gay tendencies” and that his father had called him gay in front of her. Dias also claimed “the FBI asked her not to tell this to the American media.”

The bombshell came as a male former classmate of Omar Mateen said he had been asked out romantically by the mass killer, who reportedly was a virtual regular at the Pulse nightclub, having visited it more than a dozen times over the years. (Read more from “Ex-Wife Says Orlando Shooter Was Gay, FBI Told Her to Keep Quiet About His Sexual Orientation” HERE)

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Orlando Terrorist Cheered on 9/11, Classmates Say

Orlando terrorist Omar Mateen allegedly jumped for joy when the second plane hit the World Trade Center on 9/11, according to Mateen’s former high school classmates.

Mateen, a U.S. citizen of Afghan descent, gunned down 49 people inside of a popular gay Orlando nightclub early Sunday morning.

Robert Zirkle, Mateen’s classmate who rode the bus to school with him daily, told the Washington Post Mateen “was making plane noises on the bus, acting like he was running into a building.” Zirkle added that prior to 9/11 he and Mateen were friendly but “After 9/11 happened, he started changing and acting different.”

Mateen was sent to the dean’s office for “saying some really rude stuff,” including “That’s what America deserves,” according to another former classmate. The former classmates remember Mateen being escorted out of Florida school when other children took offense to his comments.

In a separate instance after 9/11, Mateen falsely proclaimed that Osama Bin Laden was his uncle. Two classmates told the Washington Post that Mateen’s behavior after 9/11 was significantly altered and bizarre. They speculated Mateen was either suspended or expelled from school for his constant fights and strange behavior.

Mateens behavior and statements after 9/11 may be key to understanding how he began sympathizing with radical Islamic terrorism and the Islamic State.

FBI Director James Comey told reporters Monday that Mateen had previously sympathized with Iranian-backed Shiite terrorist group Hezbollah. Comey also said there were “strong indications of radicalization,” with “potential inspiration by foreign terrorist organizations.”

Comey further confirmed reports Mateen attended the same mosque as the first American-born suicide bomber in Syria and was under investigation for nearly 10 months before the investigation was closed. Mateen’s father claimed in the late hours after the attack, the massacre “had nothing to do with religion.”

Mateen called 911 three times during the course of the attack, according to the FBI, to declare his allegiance to ISIS and praise the Tsarnaev brothers, who were responsible for the 2013 Boston marathon bombings. (For more from the author of “Orlando Terrorist Cheered on 9/11, Classmates Say” please click HERE)

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Judge Says Alabama Must Perform Gay ‘Marriages’

A federal judge has issued a permanent injunction against enforcing Alabama’s law banning same-sex “marriage,” despite the Alabama Supreme Court’s decision upholding that law.

In March 2015, shortly before the U.S. Supreme Court’s Obergefell decision, which ruled that same-sex “marriage” is a Constitutional right, the state Supreme Court had ordered probate judges to stop issuing same-sex marriage licenses, saying the state law remained in effect.

In January of this year, Chief Justice Roy Moore reaffirmed that 2015 state Supreme Court decision. In an Administrative Order he reminded the state’s judges that the ban on same-sex “marriage” remained in effect, and advised them not to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples . . .

However, U.S. District Judge Callie V. Granade ruled last week that state officials are bound by the United States Supreme Court’s decision.

Judge Granade’s injunction is permanent, preventing judges and any official “who would seek to enforce the marriage laws of Alabama that prohibit or fail to recognize same-sex marriage” from doing so. (Read more from “Judge Says Alabama Must Perform Gay ‘Marriages'” HERE)

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Transgender Appeals Judge’s Ruling Denying Her Bid to Use Male Name

A Georgia judge who rejected the name change proposed by a transgendered woman who identifies as a man is facing a challenge to his decision.

Columbia County Superior Court Judge J. David Roper had ruled that Rebeccah Elizabeth Feldhaus could not change her name to Rowan Elijah.

“The question presented is whether a female has the salutatory right to change her name to a traditionally and obviously male name,” the judge wrote in March. “The court concludes that she does not have such right.”

“I don’t know anybody named Elijah who’s female,” Roper said, according to a hearing transcript. “I’m not going to do that. I’ve never heard of that. And I know who Elijah was, one of the greatest men that ever lived.”

This week, Roper’s decision came under fire as attorneys for Feldhaus filed papers with the Georgia Court of Appeals to overturn Roper’s ruling.

Feldhaus said in a statement that he felt insulted and objectified to be told he can’t use the name that his family, friends and even co-workers already use.

“It can be a scary situation when I show up for work or the first day of class and my legal name does not match my public presentation and my gender identity,” said Feldhaus, who attended Augusta University. “I just want to change my name so that it reflects who I am.”

Roper had said he did not approve of changing male to female names.

“I will allow a gender-neutral name change that will benefit the general public because I don’t want them to have to go through the embarrassing issue of trying to figure out what to do with you when you present, in your appearance today, with a female name, particularly if you had on a uniform and you were dressed like a man,” Roper told Feldhaus, who is in the Army Reserve. (For more from the author of “Transgender Appeals Judge’s Ruling Denying Her Bid to Use Male Name” please click HERE)

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Billy Graham Reminds Americans of Their ‘God-Given Responsibility’

Americans should use their “God-given responsibility” and vote this November, the Rev. Billy Graham said in a call to action published on the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association website.

In a Q-and-A format, Graham responds to a questioner who voiced a common thought heard across the nation as elections approach.

“I’m sick of politicians and political campaigns, and I’ve decided I’m not going to vote this year. It wouldn’t do any good anyway, because just one vote won’t make any difference. Why bother?” asked the questioner.

Graham met the question head-on.

“Let me ask you a question: What would happen to our nation if everyone decided not to vote? You know the answer — before long we’d lose our freedoms and be ruled by a power-hungry dictatorship,” said Graham.

“No system of government is perfect, including ours. But all it will take to make it collapse is an indifferent citizenry,” he wrote.

“But I also urge you to vote for another reason: I believe it is a God-given responsibility,” he wrote.

Graham noted that even amid the governmental and political shortcomings of the Roman Empire, Jesus preached that everyone had a responsibility to be good citizens.

“He said, ‘Give to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what is God’s’ (Matthew 22:21). The same principle is true for us today: We should do everything we can to encourage and support good government — including voting,” Graham wrote. “Understand the issues…know where the candidates stand on them…ask God to guide you — and then vote.”

Graham said a Christian’s responsibility does not end there.

“Beyond that, however, pray for our nation and its leaders — not just the President, but all who’ve been entrusted with public office. It’s the most important thing you can do,” he wrote. (For more from the author of “Billy Graham Reminds Americans of Their ‘God-Given Responsibility'” please click HERE)

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