Literary Discussions

MLKJr is my hero for several reasons and Billy Graham and his son, Franklin, are villains in my eyes for several reasons.  During the civil rights protests, Graham told people of color to "behave yourselves". Graham started sucking up to sources of power when he weaseled a 15 minute  audience with Harry S. Truman and then immediately snuck out with his boys onto the Whitehouse lawn for  a photo op "taking the knee" in prayer. Oh, how I can imagine Jesus nauseous at such behavior. When Truman found out about that photo op gambit he banned Graham from the Whitehouse.  The only TRULY Christian president was probably Jimmy Carter and he was the only president NOT to allow Graham to come to the Whitehouse and hold one of his corny "prayer breakfasts" because, Carter stated, 'the Whitehouse is not the place for that sort of thing.'  Graham sat in the Oval Office with Nixon saying "Yessuh" in agreement with Nixon's antiSemitic comments. When the tapes went public Graham looked perplexed and said "I do not remember saying those things"  WELL OF COURSE YOU DONT REMEMBER YOU DUMMY, because you are a yes-man who says anything that will please the source of your worldly wealth and power. Franklin Graham grilled candidate Obama saying "DO YOU believe that Jesus is the only way to heaven" and Obama wisely answered "I believe He is the only way FOR ME." One Newsweek article pointed out that Billy Graham had weaseled out of an answer to a journalist who asked "Rev. Graham, do you believe that only Christians are in heaven?" and Graham said "that is not for me to say that is only for God."  Now MLKJR knew that he would probably be assassinated yet he rid his home of all weapons because it would be hypocritical to preach nonviolence and yet have weapons for self defense. MLKJr KNEW that he must protest the Vietname war and yet he KNEW that doing so would cut him off from LBJ as a future source of power and support. So, I ask you all, compare the actions of MLKJr with the actions of weasels, parasites and demagogues like Billy and Franklin Graham and tell me how it ways in your moral balance.