Read a Christianity Today Q-and-A with Graham, posted Jan. 21, 2011, in which he expressed regret for some of his past political involvements.

See a May 15, 2011, Newsweek article about conflicts among his offspring over protecting their father’s image and the family name.

Read a May 17, 2011, post by Stephen Prothero on CNN’s Belief blog. The Boston University religion scholar praises Billy Graham as “a powerful preacher of the gospel” but calls his son Franklin “a political hack.”

Read a Baptist minister’s Oct. 19, 2012, commentary about Billy Graham’s comments in the 2012 presidential election.

Among those who consider themselves part of the Tea Party, 51 percent reject evolution, according to a September 2011 survey by the Public Religion Research Institute. Sixty-one percent of independents and 64 percent of Democrats accept evolution, the survey found.

Watch a video uploaded on Feb. 13, 2009, about President Barack Obama’s views on evolution. He believes in evolution and has praised the work of Charles Darwin.

Read a June 17, 2011, article from CNN about former GOP presidential candidate Michele Bachmann’s views on evolution. Bachmann is skeptical about evolution. She favors teaching public school students about competing theories, including intelligent design, “and then letting students decide.”

Read an Aug. 18, 2011, article from USA Today about former GOP presidential candidate Rick Perry’s views on evolution. Perry has said he firmly believes in intelligent design, while evolution is merely a theory — and one with “some gaps in it.”

Read an Aug. 20, 2011, article from ABC News about former GOP candidate Jon Huntsman’s response to Gov. Rick Perry’s comments on evolution. Huntsman chastised Texas Gov. Rick Perry for his evolution comments, saying such a stance puts the Republican Party in danger of being “anti-science.”