Traitors to the Cause

When you think of infamous American traitors, the names Benedict Arnold and Julius and Ethel Rosenberg come readily to mind. Think a little harder and you may come up with the names Aldrich Ames, a KGB double agent who infiltrated the CIA, and Robert Hanssen, an FBI agent who spied for the Soviet Union and Russia for 22 years before being caught. Then there is John Walker, who turned over settings for the KL-47 cipher machine that decoded sensitive U.S. Navy communications, allowing the Soviet Union to track the movements of every American ship and submarine throughout the Cold War.

Well, I have a few new names to add to that notorious list: Claude Alexander, Dwight McKissic, Jerushah Duford, Derek Minor, and Ekemini Uwan. Never heard of them? Me neither, which shows just how little influence they really have.

The aforementioned people claim to be some of the 200,000 self-proclaimed Evangelical Christians who are supporting Kamala Harris for President. In fact, they have formed a group called “Evangelicals for Harris”, that hosted a recent Zoom call that supposedly attracted 40,000 participants.

Before wringing your hands, let’s take a closer look at who these imposters really are. Uwan, who hosted the call despite acknowledging that she doesn’t identify as an Evangelical because “it’s tightly bound to whiteness”, is on record as saying that “Whiteness is wicked. It is wicked. It’s rooted in violence. It’s rooted in theft. It’s rooted in plunder. It’s rooted in power, in privilege.” She has also called for defunding the police, reparations, a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants, and an end to the Electoral College.

Not exactly the second coming of Ruth Bell Graham, Billy’s wife, soulmate, and ministry partner for 64 years.

Speaking of the Graham family, one of Billy’s granddaughters, Jerushah Duford, also signed the group’s pledge to support Harris. The only problem with that is, once again, Duford isn’t a true Evangelical nor is she a person of influence. Instead, she describes herself as an “LGBTQ+ friendly” therapist.

The same goes for Claude Alexander, chairman of the board of Christianity Today, a publication started by Billy Graham in 1956 that has veered so far from its evangelical roots as to be unrecognizable today… and Dwight McKessic, a well-known activist for women pastors within the Southern Baptist Convention… and Derek Minor, a self-proclaimed Christian rapper whose up-and-down faith journey “doesn’t fit the mold anymore.”

Again, we’re not exactly talking Michael W. Smith or Steven Curtis Chapman here.

Other “faith leaders” who were on the Zoom call included Rev. Jacqui Lewis, of Middle Collegiate Church in New York City, and the Rev. Lennox Yearwood Jr., head of the nonprofit Hip Hop Caucus; environmentalist Bill McKibben and LGBTQ+ rights advocate Charlotte Clymer; commentators such as CNN’s Van Jones; and politicians, including New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker and Texas State Rep. James Talarico.

Not a true Evangelical in the entire mix; just a bunch of political posers whose hypocrisy Jesus would denounce the way He did the scribes and Pharisees in Matthew 23.

Regardless, these self-righteous fence-straddlers have somehow convinced themselves that embracing the candidacy of the most radically pro-abortion candidate in American political history is what Jesus would have them do. By doing so, they demonstrate a complete lack of understanding of both the Bible, which repeatedly prohibits child sacrifice, and the true biblical Jesus, who commanded in Matthew 19:14, “Let the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them; for of such is the kingdom of heaven.”

Jesus also said in Matthew 18:6, “But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to sin, it would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were drowned in the depth of the sea.”

I guess we should look for lots of delegates at the DNC this week wearing millstones.