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The Rev. Franklin Graham has given up on the Republican Party.<\/p>\n

He quit, citing Congress’s refusal to stop federal funding for Planned Parenthood. So, Graham — son of the legendary preacher the Rev. Billy Graham — has had enough of the GOP.<\/p>\n

I thought immediately of a bumper sticker I once saw on a car here in Amarillo. I am paraphrasing, but it said, “God is bigger than a bumper sticker.”<\/p>\n

Indeed …<\/p>\n

Graham isn’t the first high-profile preacher<\/a>\u00a0to become involved in partisan politics. Another Republican, Mike Huckabee, is a former Baptist preacher seeking the Republican presidential nomination; Democrats Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton,\u00a0both of whom are\u00a0ordained Christian clergymen, also have run for the highest office in the land.<\/p>\n

Still, I find it intriguing to hear that Franklin Graham is quitting the Republican Party because of an intensely emotional issue. That would be abortion.<\/p>\n

Perhaps, though, he ought to know that the Hyde Amendment — named after\u00a0the late Republican U.S. Rep. Henry Hyde — prohibits the federal government from dedicating public money for abortion and that Planned Parenthood’s mission goes far beyond providing abortion referrals for women seeking to terminate their pregnancy.<\/p>\n

And, yes, God truly is far bigger than a bumper sticker.<\/p>\n

Or a political party.<\/p>\n\n

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