It was a very windy day

I don't care for his theology much, but, nevertheless, have always had considerable respect for Billy Graham, especially in his later years.  

True, Graham was late on civil rights and, at one time, was a rather vigorous anti-semite.  He waved the Nixon flag with gusto because he considered Nixon the most righteous of politicians, in his naivete not realizing that Nixon had suckered him from the beginning.

Toward the later years of his life, Graham became more ecumenical, and less divisive.  He sought common ground, and became more irenic in his attitude.

His son, Franklin, is more like the early Billy than the late one.  He loves him some Vladimir Putin because Putin knows how to bash gay people, unlike that wuss, Pres. Obama.

“Isn’t it sad, though, that America’s own morality has fallen so far that on this issue — protecting children from any homosexual agenda or propaganda — Russia’s standard is higher than our own?”

Oh, that "homosexual agenda"!  It has been depressing enough to see our foreign policy revolve around questions of "showing strength" or "showing weakness," as if foreign policy were about the mental world of adolescent boys.  Now Putin is a moral guide as well as a bare-chested warrior?  The apple fell at least a little ways from the tree when Franklin was born.

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[Brant]

Fell from the tree, yes. Then it rolled downhill a ways.

[Sally Neary]

Continuing the metaphor: now has a few rotten spots.

[John Petty]

Sally, it still works.