So, Greg, why don't you speak for yourself and give us some Billy Graham statements that you object to. I was aghast at things said by the likes of Falwell, Bakker, Robertson, Swaggart - and so many others. But when Billy Graham spoke he spoke in peaceful terms, never in hate. The two articles you cite are both very good, and both express a point of view that is very compatible with mine. But neither one gives information to support your intolerant condemnation of the man.

It's good to espouse a political philsophy, but not so good if your philosophy drives you to the absolute condemnation of others. If you are absolute in your political philosophy, you condemn yourself to always being in the minority, never able to accomplish anything other than to continue to insist that you're right and others are wrong.

Billy Graham's positions represent the thinking of a huge number of good people in the United States. If you can learn to tolerate and respect these people and work with them, you can accomplish great things. Without them, you will accomplish nothing - but you can still feel very righteous about your correct ideology.

So, what I'm insisting on is tolerance and respect. You and Mr. Shaw have neither.

-Joe Offer-