This just in.
WASHINGTON — The world-renown evangelist Billy Graham, who died Wednesday, will lie in honor at the U.S. Capitol next Wednesday and Thursday, with political leaders and the public allowed to pay their respects.
House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., announced the decision on Thursday. His office said that after Graham’s casket arrives on Feb. 28, Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., will take part in a bicameral service honoring the preacher and presidential counselor.
This bothers me on so many levels. This is an honor given to people who served either in the Government or Military Service. The only civilian was Rosa Parks. And she earned this honor.
But Billy Graham?
No. He is a Christain Preacher of dubious works. He lied about what he said with Nixon for one. Next, it is an affront to the Constitution in the Separation of Church and State. And finally it is an affront to all other peoples who are not Christians or. for that matter, are atheists.