Should Billy Graham have a national holiday? 73,000 people and counting say yes.

[TexasTowelie]

A heavy-equipment operator from North Carolina is willing to move heaven and earth to get a national holiday declared in honor of the Rev. 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,” Kyle Siler of Trinity wrote on change.org, where he launched a petition drive a week ago.

The petition is one of several along the same lines, but only Siler’s has gained significant traction, gathering more than 73,000 signatures by Monday afternoon and climbing at a rate of more than 10 per minute.

Siler, 41, said Monday he never attended one of Graham’s crusades, but his grandfather was a huge fan of the Charlotte-born preacher who died Feb. 21.

Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/living/religion/article203612109.html

[GP6971]

1. No way!! n/t

[NRaleighLiberal]

2. 73K is not a whole lotta people - and the answer is NO!!!!

[uppityperson]

3. No. Nt

[sinkingfeeling]

4. NO, he had nothing to add to the country.

[democratisphere]

5. Hell NO!

Ooops!

[badhair77]

6. No. Absolutely not.

[JI7]

7. NO

[ismnotwasm]

8. Of course not.

[RandySF]

9. Can I have the day off?

[Laffy Kat]

10. I will fight this to my grave.

[Glorfindel]

11. Of course not.

Good grief. Stupidest idea since the Knights of Columbus added "under God" to the pledge of allegiance.

[erpowers]

12. He Might Not Have Been Courageous

Although he desegregated his tent events, he refused to participate in the Civil Rights Movement. He later said that he regretted his decision to sit on the sidelines during the Civil Rights Movement. It is very easy to sit back once things have become popular and say you wish you had participated in the event. Even though he was a pastor he did not seem to be a guy who wanted to stands alone on issues. He was not a trailblazer on issues. Sometimes it seemed like he was more concerned with being like than with taking a stand. I think national holidays should be reserved for people who were willing to take a stand during their life.

Supposedly he was pro-choice thought the church should stay away from that issue. I wonder if Mr. Siler would want a holiday for Mr. Graham if it turns out it was true that Mr. Graham was pro-choice, or believed that was an issue better left to the states and women.

[ghostsinthemachine]

13. No

[lunasun]

14. F that

[3catwoman3]

15. Abso-fucking-lutely NOT!

No way. No how. Noooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[MLAA]

16. Absolutely no. Religious leaders have no business be honored by holidays.

Separation of church and state.

[NCjack]

17. I could get behind it if it is on a Monday in August, all convenience stores have to stay

open, and beer, chips, and dips are 50% off. And, I want a national holiday for atheists on the same day. And, we call it National Summer Holiday.

[Thunderbeast]

18. November 9 should be a national holiday

Carl Sagan's birthday.

but sadly,

Spiro Agnew's birthday
Kristalnacht
Fall of Berlin wall

Oh well....I'll just celebrate my own birthday.

[Greybnk48]

20. November 9th is my birthday too!

Celebrate me and Carl and the fall of the horrible Berlin wall!

[arthritisR_US]

19. That is one of the stupidest ideas.

[vercetti2021]

21. How about a day off for National voting?

[Rhiannon12866]

24. That is something we can support!

[Hortensis]

29. Yes, yes, yes!!! We really need to celebrate democracy

itself in a way that brings people together, as democracy does when it works well, with parades, picnics, walks for charities, ceremonies in thousands of town squares and municipal parks. And of course same-day voter registration opportunities.

[Greybnk48]

22. Billy Graham was a racist and a bigot. Look how his son turned out!

He unapologetically supported Nixon and his horrid anti-semitism, his calling the Irish "thick-necked Micks," and using every ethnic stereo-typical smear imaginable. Graham knew this about Nixon, as did every one of us who heard the tapes, and still he rabidly supported him as if Nixon was an honorable man. I suppose his support was in exchange for favors, which makes him dishonorable as well.

I see Billy Graham as the beginning of the shit we're living through right now with the radical political/racist/fascist movement that poses as evangelical Christianity.

[GWC58]

35. Graham did

not, at all, seem “Christlike.” Then again most Christians are not Christlike.👿 By the way No way, no how any kind of remembrance for this, supposed, man of God!

[bdjhawk]

23. All women to wear burqa's that day

since he thought women were inferior and should submit to men. Grrrrrrrrrr..................

[Hortensis]

25. :) Perhaps we could consider a new MLK/BG Day,

you know a religious/social leaders day like "Presidents' Day" and see how that goes over.

[Turbineguy]

26. Why don't they just

sell their organs and donate the money to his ministry instead?

Just trying to be helpful.

[MFM008]

27. Hell no

Attempt to cancel out MLK day.

[Doodley]

28. Stupid idea.

[RainCaster]

30. One look at his son Franklin should tell you

This guy was a total failure at being a father. If he couldn't teach love to his son, how could he teach it to the world?

No
No
No
No
No
No
No

[SamKnause]

31. No, fuck no !!!!

[avebury]

32. Help No!!!!!!

[Gothmog]

33. No way

[Luciferous]

34. No

[no_hypocrisy]

36. Don't discount the possibility that Trump will issue an EO to make such a holiday.

You could have a petition with 2,500 signatures and that would be a mandate for him.

[C_U_L8R]

37. We need a freedom from religion day

Every day of the year.

[Demsrule86]

38. No, he should not.