Crowdpounding Franklin Graham or Otherwise?

It’s now well-known — it’s all over the webs and blogs: Franklin Graham said some things that unleashed two kinds of response: hate him or love him! I have read two — and only two — sorts of response:

Some have grabbed the worst statements he made and called him names or said he broke laws and they are crowdpounding the man. It’s ugly and here’s the big thing: crowdpounding is not redemptive. It’s an attempt to use brute force to shut him up or shut him down. It’s mob mentality stuff.

At the same time others have obviously discovered in Franklin Graham’s comments an opportunity to tell him what a great prophet he is. They are crowdaffirming the man, and reading the comments is a way of seeing America’s culture war up close and personal and all so unfair and unbalanced.

The second kind response has been to list the rather inane (or worse) comments Franklin has made in the last few years to show how his wheels are jumping the rails. I find this approach superior to the typical form of post that seeks to incite a riot in the comment box. But the problem with this second, evidence-over-time approach is the same: the Comment Box. There again we find crowdpounding and crowdaffirming culture war and Girardian scapegoating or hero-making.

So, in this Comment Box I will reserve space only for those who have concrete proposals that will lead to redemptive solutions to inflammatory soundbytes at the hands of church leaders.

What can we do to bring peace-making approaches? What are some “otherwise” responses to culture war crowdpounding and crowdaffirming?