tolerance.org: "King Daughter Sullies Father's Legacy"

[Bluebear]

While King may have praised his daughter for having the courage and conviction to march for her beliefs, bigotry is still bigotry, whether it's racial or sexual preference. He would not have marched by her side.

The sight of the daughter of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., standing at the gravesite of her father with thousands of demonstrators to denounce gay marriage was painful and insulting.

The Rev. Bernice King and the march organizers deliberately chose King's gravesite to imply that King might well have stood with her and them in their protest. Given her father's relentless, and uncompromising battle against discrimination during his life, it defies belief that he would back an anti-gay campaign.

But it's not the first time that a King family member has sullied King's name and legacy to torpedo gay rights. In 1998, King's niece, Alveda King, barnstormed the country speaking at rallies against gay rights legislation. In case anyone missed the King family connection, her group was named, "King for America." Gay rights groups everywhere countered King's repent-and-save-yourself message to gays by quoting a public statement Coretta Scott King issued in 1996 in which she noted that King would be a champion of gay rights if he were alive.

http://www.tolerance.org/news/article_tol.jsp?id=1125

[htuttle]

1. So his wife, his daughter, and his niece...

...all seem to think that MLK would back gay rights if he were alive.

Yet 'columnist Earl Ofari Hutchinson' seems to know what MLK would do better than his family. Remarkable.

[Bluebear]

2. The author quotes Coretta in agreement.

Where is the remarkable part?

[htuttle]

3. I just realized that I read this whole story wrong

I thought the column was saying almost the exact opposite of what it does.

Disregard. I'm an idiot. :dunce:

[Bluebear]

4. Cheers!

:toast:

[CatWoman]

5. TRUTH BE DEMAND, DAMMIT!!!!!

:hi:

[applegrove]

6. Neocons/GOP have been targeting famous leaders for flipping for

a generation. Really - everywhere Al Sharpton goes there is a troop of rovbots tripping over themselves to get him to go over to the dark side.

Look at Paula Jones, Roe, etc.

Polarizing the country by stealing totems has been in the cards for a while.

I think those xtians in the South have been playing hardball on the gay issue. Would be terribly hard for a minister in a Church to not be influenced by everyone around her.

I am sorry to hear it.