07 November, 2008

Happy Birthday, Reverend


Reverend Billy Graham is 90 today.

Graham stands alone as an evangelical leader that consistently practiced what he preached, while always staying high above our polarizing political fray.

Along his way, decades worth of indignant Christian hypocrites have weaved their preaching hate into the political fabric; Jim Baaker, Jerry Falwell, Ted Haggard and James Dobson are a small sampling of names that have cultivated what we know politically as the Christian Right, or flawed base of the Republican party.

Reverend Graham remains a living embodiment and answer to the rhetorical question posed on countless bumper stickers and t-shirts;

What would Jesus do?

I imagine whatever Billy would do.

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