With Billy Graham making his final crusade, this quote is apt.

[Sean Reynolds]

"Well, I've been a Democrat all of my life. So, I can identify with those in the blue states. But, they'll come out of this eventually,"said Reverend Graham soothing the hurt felt by many of his blue brethren.

http://www.stonewalldemocrats.org/trailmix/archives/000239.html

[Cha]

1. Zowers, Sean! Who knew?

Now that makes me like him..I guess his son is another story?

[Sean Reynolds]

4. His son is a far-right nut.

[Ilsa]

2. But Franklin is the "prodigal son." But he's home now and in

God's good graces, so Daddy is leaving him a big business.

[FloridaPat]

3. Lat I heard he made $85,000. That means he's not a giganitic rip-off

artist like Tammy Fay and others like he. Graham actually practiced what he preached.

[TwentyFive]

5. Kick for later reading.

[datadiva]

6. Met him once

He mostly stayed non-partisan. Wonderful man, they may have tried to use him but it didn't work. I for one will miss him.
O8)

[bluestateguy]

7. I like Billy Graham

He has said some stupid things many years ago (as many of us have done as well), but he strikes me as an honest man who loves people and appreciates the importance of separation of church and state.

[leesa]

8. Right, Billy. It's been a convenient part of your ruse.

You are the same as Falwell, Robertson, Dobson, etc. You're just better camouflaged to make bigger bucks.

[jonnyblitz]

9. exactly. good fucking riddance...

all those shysters are the same. :puke:

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[tsuki]

11. BS. He has been a NeoCon all his life.

[Tinksrival]

12. Interesting article

The gospel of Billy Graham: Inclusion

http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2005-05-15-graham-cover_x.htm

"There are a lot of groups that feel a little bit strange around me, because I am inclusive," says Graham, who draws a distinction between "evangelical" — a label often claimed by conservative Protestants — and "evangelism."

"Evangelism is when the Gospel, which is good news, is preached or presented to all people," he says. When his soft, low voice shades deeper and stronger at the word "all," it recalls the deep trumpet tones of his prime.

"If I took sides in all these different divisive areas, I would cut off a great part of the people that I really want to reach. So I've felt that the Lord would have me just present the Gospel" and stay out of politics, he says.
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I thought this was a really interesting analagy from the same article:


Graham says the changing winds of evangelism remind him of a scene from The Sound of Music. After Germany invaded Austria, the Austrian Baron von Trapp, astonished when a teenager snaps into a Hitler salute, says in dismay, "My world is passing me by."

"It's true for me," Graham says. "I see all this going on, but I just understand the basic principles that will be true in every generation. My world is passing me by."

There's no anger or complaint in his voice, just the calm of someone certain that another world awaits.