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Date Posted: 11:59:56 06/10/02 Mon
In reply to:
Shayne
's message, "Re: The Thievery of Evangelist Billy Graham" on 20:04:09 03/20/02 Wed
>>The Thievery of Evangelist Billy Graham
>>
>>Billy Graham has become a god to Southern Baptists and
>>Evangelicals when to others he is a liar, a thief and
>>a con artist demonstrated by his taking total
>>compensation of over $500,000 annually for the last
>>ten years and not disclosing it to his donors while
>>working less than fifty percent of the time.
>>
>>His money did not come from God but from the public.
>>His non profit tax exemption did not come from God but
>>from the public. Lying Lyons supporters argued that if
>>his board approved something that it was all right.
>>But that is not what the Judge who convicted and
>>sentenced Lyons to jail said.
>>
>>It's the law of the land that all non profit chairman
>>of corporations must reveal their total salary and
>>that Billy, Ned and Franklin do not speak volumes of
>>their hypocrisy especially considering the fact that
>>the Tampa Tribune reported:
>>
>>Although Billy Graham encourages religious leaders to
>>be open about their salaries and publish their
>>finances, Howard-Browne would not disclose what he
>>earns. He says his salary is determined by his board
>>of directors, which is comprised of four pastors,
>>himself and his wife. The couple does not vote on his
>>salary. ``People get hung up on the figure,'' he says.
>>``But they don't take everything into account. I don't
>>get a housing or clothing allowance. We take our kids
>>on the road and that's very expensive.''
>>
>>Not good enough, says Paul Nelson, president of the
>>Evangelical Council of Financial Accountability in
>>Washington. Revival Ministries International is not
>>among its 925 members. ``When you hold yourself out as
>>a public trust, it's just good practice to be open
>>about your finances,'' he says. ``If you're not
>>forthright, you leave a question in the minds of your
>>potential givers.''
>>
>>For the past five years, the ministry has been audited
>>by Katz & Kamm, a Baltimore accounting firm. But the
>>tax-exempt church association is not required to open
>>its books to the public. `While I applaud them for
>>getting the audit, I would strongly suggest they go
>>one step further and make their records public,''
>>Nelson says.
>>
>>WHY DOESN'T BILLY GRAHAM BE OPEN ABOUT HIS FINANCES
>>AND TOTAL COMPENSATION? Although Billy Graham
>>encourages religious leaders to be open about their
>>salaries and publish their finances.
>>
>>Graham was embarrassed in 1977 when the Charlotte
>>Observer discovered an undisclosed $23-million fund in
>>Texas, apparently not mentioned in the accountings of
>>the Minneapolis headquarters. Since then, anyone who
>>requests a copy of the BGEA audit is mailed one.
>>Graham's business manager led the formation of the
>>Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability after
>>Graham said on a national telecast, ". . . there are
>>some charlatans coming along and the public ought to
>>be informed about them and warned against them."
>>(Chapter 2:The Video Vicarage Prime Time Preachers by
>>Jeffrey K. Hadden and Charles E. Swann)
>>
>>For the record, Billy Graham helped start the
>>Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability, a
>>self-policing organization, and has insisted that
>>neither he nor any other male employees of his
>>organization meet privately with a woman other than
>>their wives reported the St. Petersburg Times on Oct
>>11, 1998.
>>….In 1992 his ministry, Samaritan's Purse, had a
>>run-in with the Evangelical Council for Financial
>>Accountability, the self-policing organization his
>>father helped start. The ECFA suspended Samaritan's
>>Purse while it looked into Franklin's (Graham)
>>compensation and use of the company plane.
>>( FRANKIN'S REAL COMPENSATION AND PERSONAL USE OF HIS
>>COMPANY PLANE IS STILL A REAL PROBLEM TODAY AND NED
>>GRAHAM'S PROBLEMS HAVE PROBLEMS)
>>
>>"Total Compensation" is more than your basic minimum
>>salary. It includes everything including
>>housekeeping, servants, cars and other perks. For
>>Southern Baptist Billy Graham it includes the support
>>staff and nurses who provide him with 24 hr care at
>>his home!
>>
>>Graham who has legally been stealing his full salary
>>and other benefits for the last fifty years is unique
>>in his special privileges in his non-profit religious
>>organization as no other employee in the Billy Graham
>>Evangelistic Organization other than Billy Graham is
>>paid a full one hundred percent salary and is allowed
>>to spend fifty percent of his time in bed or at the
>>hospital.
>>
>>"President Bill Clinton would make a great evangelist,
>>Billy Graham told U.S. News & World Report in an
>>interview. ... Graham said he was impressed with
>>Clinton's charisma and 'with some of the things he
>>believes. ... From a biblical point of view, we should
>>be headed in the direction of goodness and
>>righteousness, away from crime and immorality,' Graham
>>said, 'and towards one's neighbors who are in need.
>>I'm encouraged by the emphasis President Clinton (a
>>Southern Baptist) and Hillary are putting on that.'
>>
>> It’s a fact that Christianity Today founded by Billy
>>Graham did not report on one of its own pastors Ollin
>>Collins of Harvest Baptist Church in Fort Worth, and
>>Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary's board
>>chairman. A man who resigned amid sexual misconducts
>>allegations when he was accused of having sexual
>>relationships with two women who sought counseling.
>>
>>But it did report about the adultery of a black man
>>and a National Baptist but not about the adultery of a
>>white man and Southern Baptist. An adultery that was
>>more hideous and gross because Collins raped
>>unsuspecting trusting women, while Lyons adulterous
>>relationships were consensual. It has been said that
>>Lyons will go down in the history books as "Hugh
>>Hefner of the New Testament."
>>http://headlines.yahoo.com/Full_Coverage/US/Henry_Lyon
>s
>>
>>Now concerning the fallen hero, the church had
>>suspended Pastor Collins with pay pending an
>>investigation. He resigned from his board position one
>>day after a story in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram
>>reported the women's allegations and their intent to
>>sue. Southwestern is the world's largest evangelical
>>seminary, with 3,000 students on eight campuses.
>>
>>But of course neither the Seminary nor the Church did
>>anything for the real female victims but they did help
>>and console the aggressor? Just like Billy Graham
>>stated about Bill Clinton "I forgive him . . . because
>>I know the frailty of human nature, and especially a
>>strong, vigorous young man like he is. "He has such a
>>tremendous personality that I think the ladies just go
>>wild over him." In other words it was the fault of
>>the victims not the victimizer?
>>
>>Even though a President of an Evangelical Ministry
>>must be blameless, the husband of one wife, temperate,
>>sober-minded, of good behavior, hospitable, able to
>>teach; not given to wine, not violent, and not greedy
>>for money, Ned Graham, the son of Billy Graham,
>>Southern Baptist minister, president East Gates
>>International, a group that distributes Bibles in
>>China told Christianity Today in an interview that he
>>had abused alcohol and spent an "inappropriate amount
>>of time" with two women on his staff.
>>
>>Grace Community Church, Southern Baptist Convention,
>>in Auburn, Washington--which counted Ned Graham, his
>>wife, and their two sons as members established the
>>fact that Ned Graham was an adulterer, alcoholic, wife
>>abuser, and drug user and revoked Graham's ministerial
>>credentials. It directed Graham to stop using the
>>title reverend.
>>
>>Yet in a style reminiscent of Jimmy Swaggart, who
>>refused to be defrocked by the Assembly of God
>>denomination, Ned Graham left that congregation for
>>another church.
>>Most of the staff and board members of East Gates
>>International resigned amid controversies. East Gates,
>>in Sumner, Wash., withdrew its membership in the
>>Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability after
>>Ned replaced the board members with his sister Ruth
>>Graham McIntyre, brother-in-law Stephan Tchividjian,
>>and business leader Peter Lowe.
>>
>>Graham's sister Gigi Tchividjian has joined the office
>>staff and Ned Graham continues as East Gates
>>president. The ECFA requires that a majority of board
>>members not be related by blood or marriage, which is
>>no longer the case for East Gates reported
>>Christianity Today. A December East Gates
>>fund-raising letter included a note from his father
>>saying that "Ruth and I are proud of and grateful to
>>God for our son Ned." East Gates has distributed 2
>>million Bibles to Christians in China, Billy Graham
>>said, encouraging Christians to "back this unique and
>>effective ministry."
>>
>>They are nothing but crooks and con artists and their
>>smooth words do not change this fact!
>>Otherwise hypocritical Baptist leaders who preach
>>integrity to others would not hide their salaries but
>>be honest and state the "total compensation" of their
>>five top employees, including Billy and Franklin
>>Graham!
>>
>>Check Out Money Changers and Thieves
>>
>>http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/extra/bfa/baptist.html
>>http://www.bfafraud.com/
>>http://headlines.yahoo.com/full_coverage/us/henry_lyon
>s
>>http://www.courttv.com/trials/lyons/061899_ctv.html
>>http://www.davidicke.net/religiousfrauds/pentecostal/g
>o
>>dfraud.html
>>http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/9te/9te026.html
>>http://www.discernment.org/charismania/drjoyce.htm
>>http://tampabayonline.net/reports/minister/homealt.htm
>>http://tampatrib.com/news/greaterministries.htm
>>http://www.deceptioninthechurch.com/lewd.html
>>http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2000/11/21/tilton/
>p
>>rint.html
>>http://cnt10.tripod.com/home.htm
>>http://www.sptimes.com/news/102699/tampabay/edwards_se
>n
>>tenced_to_.shtml
>>http://sptimes.com/news/080701/tampabay/church_leader_
>g
>>ets_27.shtml
>>http://www.letusreason.org/pent23.htm
>>http://www.svic.net/paulhumphries/nine.html
>>http://www.eflgc.org.uk/index.shtml
>>http://members.aol.com/cebijp/
>>http://religiousbroadcasting.lib.virginia.edu/primetim
>e
>>/c6.html
>>http://www.ecfa.org
>>http://abpnews.com/abpnews/
>>http://www.sbcbaptistpress.org/
>>http://www.charismanews.com
>
>First of all I would like to apologize in advance if
>any of the following is interperted as offensive in
>any way.
>With that said, I would like to point out the fac...etc
Bilgy Graham has been at this for about a half century. I have witnessed his mendacity at Baylor University about the year 1954. Bilgy had on the stage with him a quite elderly gent by the name of Howard E. Butt of whom Grahan said: "If something should happen to me I can think of no better person to take over my ministry". Significant? Well, H.E. Butt was the aged founder of the HEB grocery chain and worth a significant sum of cash. It appears that BG has not lost his nose for the pelf.
Bryan J. Ogburn
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