{"id":27202,"date":"2015-12-22T17:55:53","date_gmt":"2015-12-22T22:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=27202"},"modified":"2015-12-22T17:55:53","modified_gmt":"2015-12-22T22:55:53","slug":"taking-a-stand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=27202","title":{"rendered":"Taking A Stand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2015\/dec\/22\/franklin-graham-quits-gop-over-planned-parenthood-\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS\" target=\"_blank\">The Washington Times<\/a> reported today that <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Franklin Graham\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Franklin_Graham\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Franklin Graham<\/a> has left the Republican Party. He left the party after the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Omnibus spending bill\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Omnibus_spending_bill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">omnibus spending bill<\/a> was passed. The bill continues the government funding of <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Planned Parenthood\" href=\"http:\/\/www.plannedparenthood.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Planned Parenthood<\/a> and was passed with both Republican and Democratic votes.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>\u201cThis is an example of why I have resigned from the Republican Party and declared myself Independent. I have no hope in the Republican Party, the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Democratic Party (United States)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.democrats.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Democratic Party<\/a>, or <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"The Tea Party\" href=\"http:\/\/teaparty.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Tea Party<\/a> to do what is best for <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United States\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667&amp;spn=10.0,10.0&amp;q=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667 (United%20States)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">America<\/a>,\u201d Mr. Graham said in a <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Faceboo\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Facebook<\/a> post.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>\u201cSeeing and hearing Planned Parenthood talk nonchalantly about selling baby parts from aborted fetuses with utter disregard for human life is reminiscent of <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Josef Mengele\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Josef_Mengele\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Joseph Mengele<\/a> and the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Nazi concentration camps\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nazi_concentration_camps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Nazi concentration camps<\/a>!\u201d Mr. Graham continued. \u201cThat should\u2019ve been all that was needed to turn off the faucet for their funding.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I totally understand his decision. I have remained in the Republican party in the hope that at some point they will return to the pro-life stand stated in their platform. I don&#8217;t see the possibility of having a strong voice in Washington without being associated with either the Republican or Democratic parties. That is unfortunate and has gotten us into the mess we are in, but I believe it is where we are. I hope Reverend Graham will continue to speak out for the principles that made America great.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Times reported today that Franklin Graham has left the Republican Party. He left the party after the omnibus spending bill was passed. The bill continues the government funding of Planned Parenthood and was passed with both Republican and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=27202\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[712,9617,2019,3415,8530],"class_list":["post-27202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-democratic-party-united-states","tag-franklin-graham","tag-planned-parenthood","tag-republican-party-united-states","tag-the-washington-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27203,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27202\/revisions\/27203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}