Billy Graham: A Man of Ethics
Billy Graham was a role model. He was the perfect example of a man who managed to uphold his strong morals and ethics throughout his highly publicized life. Despite the constant attempts by the media and his enemies to slander his image, Billy Graham is still respected and held in high regard internationally to this very day. Billy Graham’s strong ethics were most evident in how he responded to his many enemies and critics, his persistence in the equality of all races, and his life-long virtue of living what he preached.
During Billy Graham’s worldwide crusades to spread the Christian faith, he was often met with hatred and violence. His services would be marred by protests and jeering insults, and sometimes even pelted with projectiles. Different branches of Christianity would accuse him to be too friendly with the Catholics and therefore, a traitor, while other influential people claimed that he was doing more harm than good to Christians. Even back home in the USA, Graham would be subject to an endless torrent of hate mail which ranged from accusations of him being “hoodwinked by Communists”, to psychotics that threatened to kill him. But despite all of these harsh critics and hate mongers that degraded and threatened him, Billy Graham responded to all of them in the way that he wanted all people to respond in: with respect and kindness. Billy never struck back at any of his critics who wrote hate mail to him. If he couldn’t find a point of agreement of them, he simply wrote back a letter of thanks for the letter. Billy’s response to all of his critics, whether they were Presidents or mental patients, was always the same. He treated everyone with the same respect and fairness; but when he saw people treating others with the extreme unfairness known as racial bigotry, Billy Graham would always intervene.
