Franklin Graham Disappoints

Graham writes on his facebook page:

The organizers of the cartoon contest in Garland, Texas, had the constitutional right to do what they did–but just because we have the “right” to do something doesn’t make it right! As a Christian I’m offended when people mock my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Muslims are offended when people mock their faith. I disagree with Islam. But just because I disagree, I’m not going to mock them or resort to violence. We need to show respect to people of other races and beliefs. What happened to civility and respect? See what Donald J. Trump and Greta Van Susteren have to say about antagonizing in this way and putting our police at risk.

First, the cartoonists were making editorial points in their cartoons, not simply mocking Islam. Political cartooning has a long tradition in this country and the organizers and cartoonists have every right under the Constitution to make political points using cartoons as speech.

Second, I would ask Mr. Graham whether Jesus refrained from healing on the Sabbath because it would upset the Sanhedrin and give them the charge of Sabbath-breaking with which to charge him. He called them hypocrites and asked whether any of them would not pull their favorite animal from a well on the Sabbath if it happened to fall in.

Did Jesus refrain from declaring his divinity (“I am the resurrection and the life”) and demonstrating it powerfully by raising Lazarus from the dead because it would threaten the authority of the Sanhedrin and allow them to add the charge of blasphemy to the list of offenses against him?

Did Jesus refrain from cleansing the Temple declaring, “You have this day witnessed that which is written in the Scriptures: ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations, but you have made it a den of robbers’” because it would rock the religious establishment and cause them to be even more determined to seek his death?

Now I ask you, who is behaving more like the authentic Jesus, this Jewish woman from New York, Pamela Geller, or this Christian leader, son and heir of one of our greatest Christian leaders?