For two weeks leading up to Billy Graham’s last hurrah in New York, we heard variations on the following apolitical
credo from his lips:
“I'm trying to stay out of politics. And I have been queried quite a bit lately, why I don't take stands on certain issues. I just feel that my issue is the Gospel of Christ, that God loves you and that God is willing to forgive you. Put your trust in him. And I think that's my message. And if I get off on these other things it divides the audience.”
It was therefore mind-boggling to behold
this on the boob tube last Saturday:
Graham drew a big laugh from the former president . . . when he recalled once saying that Clinton should become an evangelist "and leave his wife to run the country."
"Because he has all the gifts," said Graham, who used a walker but spoke in a strong voice. Graham was effusive about both Clintons, returning to them after the altar call and telling the crowd, "I love them both with all my heart."
My God, Billy, what would “taking a stand” look like?! I’m sure that after your effusiveness toward two of the biggest promoters of sins that put Christ on the Cross––at the head of that list being leadership of the unjust war against Serbia, which leveled hundreds of Orthodox churches in that country and occasioned an Albanian rendition of
Kristallnacht in Serbian Kosovo––your Evangelical crowd felt quite united. Perhaps they were praying another prayer with you:
“God grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked anyway, the good fortune to run into the ones I do, and the eyesight to tell the difference.”
Or, what is more likely:
“. . . when you were younger, you girded yourself and walked where you wished; but when you are old, you will stretch out your hands, and another will gird you and carry you where you do not wish." John 21: 18
While you and your machine occupied Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, ghetto-like, for three nights, the homosexual marriage advocates took over Fifth Avenue, as they do this time every year. Unlike you, they’ll be back next year. And the thousands of them who sport “Reverend” before their names have no inhibitions about “getting off” on others things that divide people. None whatsoever. Your irrelevance is complete.
Adios, Billy.
