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May 18, 2011

Houston Chronicle: T.D. Jakes to Franklin Graham: Apologize to Obama

by Kate Shellnutt
The Houson Chronicle

Bishop T.D. Jakes, a Dallas megachurch pastor who will be preaching at Lakewood Church during Memorial Day weekend, is calling out Franklin Graham on his his hesitancy to accept Obama as a Christian and asking he apologize for casting speculation onto the president’s faith.

Graham, son of evangelist Billy Graham and the CEO of the Christian charity Samaritan’s Purse, has told the media that he believes President Barack Obama was born a Muslim and that those religious roots affect his governance today. He said that although Obama says he’s a Christian  the “seed of Islam” is in him and “the Islamic world sees the president as one of theirs.”

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