Franklin Graham, president and CEO of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, said Monday that he’s had it with the Republican Party. He announced on his Facebook page that he changed his political political affiliation from Republican to Independent.

The final straw for the evangelist was last week’s Congressional approval of the $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill that essentially gave President Barack Obama the best Christmas present he could have hoped for.

Especially galling to Graham was funding Planned Parenthood. He wrote:

Shame on the Republicans and the Democrats for passing such a wasteful spending bill last week. And to top it off, funding Planned Parenthood! A Huffington Post article called it “a big win for Planned Parenthood.” I call it a big loss for America.

After all of the appalling facts revealed this year about Planned Parenthood, our representatives in Washington had a chance to put a stop to this, but they didn’t. There’s no question—taxpayers should not be paying for abortions! Abortion is murder in God’s eyes. Seeing and hearing Planned Parenthood talk nonchalantly about selling baby parts from aborted fetuses with utter disregard for human life is reminiscent of Joseph Mengele and the Nazi concentration camps! That should’ve been all that was needed to turn off the faucet for their funding.

Nothing was done to trim this 2,000 page, $1.1 trillion budget. This 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 Democratic Party, or Tea Party to do what is best for America. Unless more godly men and women get in this process and change this wicked system, our country is in for trouble.

I want to challenge Christians, even pastors, across the country to pray about running for office where they can have an impact. We need mayors, country commissioners, city council members, school board members who will uphold biblical values.

In just a couple of weeks, I will begin going state by state to every capital in our nation to hold prayer rallies for our country and share this same challenge on the Decision America Tour. Des Moines, Iowa, is first on January 5. I hope you’ll join me in your capital—check decisionamericatour.com for more dates and details.

Graham followed up his thoughts with these tweets:

I have resigned from the Republican Party and declared myself Independent! https://t.co/D4PkGPS05m

— Franklin Graham (@Franklin_Graham) December 21, 2015

Our representatives in Washington could have stopped Planned Parenthood & taxpayer funded abortion but they didn’t. https://t.co/D4PkGPS05m

— Franklin Graham (@Franklin_Graham) December 21, 2015

And he finally offered this challenge:

I want to challenge Christians, even pastors, across the country to pray about running for office. You can have an impact. #DecisionAmerica

— Franklin Graham (@Franklin_Graham) December 22, 2015

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