Panel approves model of Billy Graham statue for US Capitol
Source: Associated Press
Updated 12:21 pm CDT, Thursday, July 30, 2020
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) A North Carolina legislative committee has approved a model of a statue honoring the late Rev. Billy Graham to replace one of a former governor and white supremacist who currently represents the state in the U.S. Capitol's National Statuary Hall.
The Legislatures Statuary Hall Selection Committee on Wednesday approved the model of the Southern Baptist minister created by Charlotte-based sculptor Chas Fagan, The Charlotte Observer reported.
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Each state is allowed two statues to represent it in the hall, and the statue of Graham would replace that of Charles Aycock, a governor who also led white supremacist campaigns at the turn of the 20th century. Aycock's statue has represented North Carolina in the hall for nearly 90 years.
A bill by the Democratic-led House Appropriations Committee announced this month seeks to remove all Confederate busts and statues of individuals with unambiguous records of racial intolerance from the Capitol, including Aycock's.
Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/article/Panel-approves-model-of-Billy-Graham-statue-for-15446030.php
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,975 posts)Dios Mio
(429 posts)BigDemVoter
(4,158 posts)Billy Graham was a racist, anti-semitic piece of SHIT.
He got busted on the Nixon tapes making racist and anti-semitic jokes with Tricky Dick. . . . Fuck him. I wish I believed in hell, because it would give me great satisfaction to think his sorry ass was roasting there.
Grokenstein
(5,730 posts)rockfordfile
(8,709 posts)barbtries
(28,818 posts)Separation of church and state. Put a statue of him in front of your fucking church.
OnlinePoker
(5,729 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,068 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,068 posts)SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)He just uses churches as props. He uses religion as a prop. Everything in the world is a prop for fluffing up his ego, I think.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,068 posts)rickyhall
(4,889 posts)catbyte
(34,524 posts)pamdb
(1,333 posts)Why? Not sure it's much an improvement. But I'm sure Franklin is ticked pink.
2naSalit
(86,917 posts)Geebus Krist on a sewer cracker!
That's just so wrong on so many levels.
DallasNE
(7,404 posts)bringthePaine
(1,742 posts)lindysalsagal
(20,791 posts)In my experience, you need the truth to hear a "boom" when it crashes to the ground.
delisen
(6,046 posts)ananda
(28,894 posts)???
Dios Mio
(429 posts)Its another disease and opportunity for the CDC. ( Center for douche control )
They_Live
(3,246 posts)I can see it.
Politicub
(12,165 posts)If it were up to Graham and his offspring, anyone from the LGBTQ community would be denied access to the Capitol.
paleotn
(18,012 posts)that allows you to hear the good Reverend chatting with Tricky Dick about Jewish folks? Now that was an enlightening conversation. Lest we forget, he was also a lying bastard, not all that different from his son Franklin.
https://www.ajc.com/news/national/billy-graham-richard-nixon-tapes-the-one-time-graham-image-was-tarnished/DCj06gfORZJLYa30cLawWL/
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)Warpy
(111,436 posts)Of course, no Republican is going to allow Sen. Sam Ervin a statue to represent the best the state had to offer.
I suppose we should be grateful it's not Jesse Helms.
I doubt Graham will last long. Eventually it will dawn on lawmakers that a preacher doesn't belong there.
ancianita
(36,216 posts)Dios Mio
(429 posts)Ford_Prefect
(7,927 posts)not_the_one
(2,227 posts)I am holding my breath, and have reached a very nice shade of azure blue... fading... fading... fading... THUD
Kid Berwyn
(15,049 posts)The Preacher and Vietnam: When Billy Graham Urged Nixon to Kill One Million People
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/09/27/the-preacher-and-vietnam-when-billy-graham-urged-nixon-to-kill-one-million-people/