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18 Billy Graham's Glorious Jam
going to burn in Hell!”
“It’s wasn’t me Lee, it’s the Bible! You simple can’t
ignore Corinthians 6:9: ‘Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men will inherit the kingdom of God.’”
“Billy, you were so loving for so long. It must have been excruciating for you to let go of that, to abandon a gentle God of boundless love and embrace an angry God of narrow-minded judgment. Such a squandering of your otherwise exquisite gentility.
“But why be so literal? You didn’t have to follow the Bible word for word. We were great virtuosos. I played boogie-woogie Beethoven and you could have played the beatitudes like the true romantic you were. No one deserved more poetic license than you or me.”
“All I know is that when I wielded that holy book like a flaming sword of truth, much of the world rejoiced,” said Graham. “One of my best evangelical friends even accused me of intellectual suicide when I refused to modify the seven-day creation story of Genesis. So be it! Preaching to over eighty million souls directly and billions on TV was proof enough that I was expressing divine law.”
“Oh yes indeedy,” said Liberace. “As the great Gypsy Rose Lee knew, you gotta have a gimmick.” He picked up his candelabra. “If I didn’t have this baby, my white pianos and my diamond-studded, multicolored tuxes, I don’t think they’d have loved me near as much. Yes, we were consummate showmen.”
“You flaunted your homosexuality, but no one knew you were gay until you died,” said Graham. “It was a brazenly brave and an amazingly dishonest balancing act.”