This apple fell a long way from the tree

Watching Franklin Graham, the son of Billy Graham, I was amazed by his views. His father, a great man who I've seen at one of his revivals, is someone that once counseled Presidents, including Richard Nixon. Would anyone call Nixon a great Christian? So Franklin was on TV today saying that dictators that killed the majority of the their country to protect the minority were preferable to democracy. What? That was my reaction when I heard him talk. And anyone who thinks the President is Muslim won't be told otherwise by Mr. Graham, who only thinks the President might be telling the truth when he says he's a Christian. Where Franklin sees division, Billy would have tried to find common ground. The truth is, Franklin is an apple that fell a long way from the tree he came from. But at least if he continues this view, he won't be in his father's shadow. He'll be so far from him, he won't be able to see his father's shadow. And that makes me a little sad, knowing that when Billy Graham is gone, there'll be no one who will try to unite us in the way that only he could.