Billy Graham

A letter to the editor in the current issue of Newsweek reminds me that forty some-odd years ago a nephew of mine (then eight years old) went to a Billy Graham crusade and got saved.

The letter writer, Ernest J. Zenker of Mandeville, LA, was responding to the magazine's August 14 cover story, "Pilgrim's Progress":

Billy Graham has caused more damage to the United States than any [other] man of his generation. He has made fundamentalism socially acceptable. As a result, we have a president and a religious right that think loving Jesus Christ excuses any action....

This nephew is today an unshakable Bush supporter.