Online petition calls for national holiday honoring Rev. Billy Graham

[Miles Archer]

Online petition calls for national holiday honoring Rev. Billy Graham

http://www.wcnc.com/article/news/local/billy-graham/online-petition-calls-for-national-holiday-honoring-rev-billy-graham/525279030

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- An online petition is calling for a national holiday to honor the late Rev. Billy Graham and has over 34,000 signatures in support.

The petition, posted on change.org, calls on Donald Trump, Richard Burr, Thom Tillis and Congress to enact a national holiday to commemorate the impact of Rev. Graham.

The petition, posted six days ago by Kyle Siler, states the following:

Lets get a National Holiday for Billy Graham!! Mr. Graham preached the Gospel to more people in live audiences than anyone else in history—nearly 215 million people in more than 185 countries and territories—through various meetings, including Mission World and Global Mission. Hundreds of millions more have been reached through television, video, film, and webcasts. Mr. Graham’s counsel was sought by presidents, and his appeal in both the secular and religious arenas is evidenced by the wide range of groups that have honored him, including numerous honorary doctorates from many institutions in the U.S. and abroad.

[physioex]

1. Could care less for the bastard....

If the Pukes want to hand us another national holiday, I won't look a gift horse in the mouth.

[PoliticAverse]

2. 34,000? You could probably get more signatures for a Flying Spaghetti Monster holiday. n/t

[dalton99a]

3. Evilgelicals can't wait to worship that piece of shit

[davsand]

4. Aw, jeeze. Can't we just move ON?

I'm sure he probably meant a lot to somebody other than his family, but this shit is just getting to be too much. Get OVER it, already.

[Takket]

5. No. I would also accept Hell No and Fuck No as possible responses.

[SidDithers]

6. Fuck no...nt

Sid

[Shrike47]

7. My reaction echoes Sid: Fuck, NO.

[lpbk2713]

8. Did he actually DO anything?

Other that traveling around the world with a tent show collecting donations.
Donations that were most likely not reported accurately to the IRS.

[dalton99a]

10. +1

[Mariana]

11. He got rich. nt.

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

9. Booo...

Oh hell no!

[defacto7]

12. He deserves a national holiday as much as

PeeWee Herman deserves a monument on the mall. But I can think of better national entertainers to commemorate... like George Carlin day.

That's all Grayham and his ilk are; they're high priced, untaxed, brainwashing entertainers.

[mountain grammy]

13. Give me a fucking break..

[Lil Missy]

14. Good gawd no. NO!

[NRaleighLiberal]

15. Ugh.

[Cirque du So-What]

16. Years ago, I read an interview with Graham

(Playboy, perhaps?) in which he stated his firm belief that the rapture would occur during his lifetime, ensuring that he wouldn't suffer a physical death. He surely didn't remember that earlier assertion as he lay croaking like any ordinary mortal.

[Liberalagogo]

44. They never do

n/t

[rurallib]

17. There already is - it's called April Fools Day

captures Rev. Billy and his followers in one group.

Celebrate away!

[jrthin]

18. HELL NO!!!!!!

[hatrack]

19. Gosh, 1/100th of 1% of Americans have already signed up!

[edhopper]

20. I guess

as the MLK holiday represents a day for African Americans.

This can be a holiday honoring all the anti-Semitic, power worshipping assholes.

[MineralMan]

21. This is a White Nationalist response to the Martin Luther King holiday.

Nothing more than that. We will hear arguments like, "Well MLK got a holiday. So should Billy Graham!" I guarantee it. The difference is that MLK made history. Billy Graham just made money as a tent revivalist gone big-time.

This is obscene!

[dalton99a]

22. Yep.

[shadowmayor]

23. Jaysus Feckin' Keeerist on a crutch

Hell no - just hell no!!!!

[Retrograde]

24. Billy Sunday and Aimee Semple McPherson were there first

Graham was able to "reach" so many people because he came along at the beginning of the television age, but huckstering preachers have been an American thing since, well, the beginning of America (Joseph Smith, anyone?).

If we're going to have a new holiday, I suggest one honoring P.T. Barnum.

[left-of-center2012]

25. He hated Jews and blacks

He liked Nixon.

What's to honor?

[dalton99a]

26. And he wanted Nixon to bomb the dikes in North Vietnam and send a million civilians to their deaths.

A real Christian

[Jake Stern]

29. This Jew works for the city and says by all means please add another paid holiday

I don't have to honor a damn thing to enjoy a day hiking in the mountains while getting paid for it.

[left-of-center2012]

30. Or ...

It may be an unpaid "holiday"?
Like Arbor Day?

[Jake Stern]

35. Funny thing is that the right will probably insist it be a paid holiday citing MLK Day

[Different Drummer]

27. A sampling of reasons for signing the petition, as listed on Change.org

"I believe his life long works deserve this honor."


"Billy Graham made an impact on millions of people. He deserves the honor."


"A man that has changed millions of lives and has made such an impact on the world deserves a national Holiday."


"I believe in the power of Jesus Christ just as this man did. And it's time to put Christ back in first place in this country so that we as Christians can continue this wonderful mans legacy."


Three of the above identified their locations as either North or South Carolina.

[octoberlib]

32. The Billy Graham Library is in NC .This is probably coming from them.

[pamdb]

28. billy graham

NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO!!!!!

[octoberlib]

31. Oh hell , no! Yeah let's honor the guy who said AIDS was God's judgment on gays.

What a charlatan.

[Owl]

33. NO!!!

[meadowlander]

34. I'll give him six minutes at 6am on the sixth of June each year

when we all pray to Baphomet that the screws on that hateful, greedy, self-righteous hypocrite's coffin stay well tightened.

[Ilsa]

38. Haaaaaaa ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!

I doubt he'll be rising from the dead. He's no Jesus.

[Wounded Bear]

40. No, don't give him D-Day...

please.

[meadowlander]

41. It's only 6 minutes...

and the rest of the day can still be dedicated to actual heroes.

[no_hypocrisy]

36. A national holiday to honor and to celebrate an antisemite?

Among other objections.

NOPE!

[3catwoman3]

37. No.

No. No.
No. No. No.

And again, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

[secondwind]

39. Oh for crying out loud! ENOUGH already.

[kacekwl]

42. Just make him a fricken saint already.

Leave the rest of us alone.

[Liberalagogo]

43. Fuck Graham until he dies a second time.

n/t