A Glimmer of Light in a Bleak Decade – A Consideration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Archdiocese of Washington ^ | 01-18-15 | Msgr. Charles Pope

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A Glimmer of Light in a Very Bleak Decade – A Consideration of the Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Catholic Ping!

[research99]

Consider Adding an objection Number 8 to that list, based on the true background and intentions of the organizer of the 1963 March on Washington.

Do the actions of this individual represent what should be admired?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayard_Rustin

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The first comment at the site compliments the author on putting forth both sides of the argument.

[Fiji Hill]

On a visit to East Texas around 1951, a friend of mine, who is white, saw two drinking fountains labeled “white” and “colored.” Figuring that a sweet drink such as Coca Cola would gush forth, he took a drik out of the “colored” fountain and was disappointed when only plain water came out.

[CatherineofAragon]

Lord have mercy, it gets deeper and deeper.

“Hearsay” that he was a Communist....just look up his own words. He smeared our troops by calling them war criminals. He said America was the greatest purveyor of violence on earth.

He supported reparations and income redistribution.

He was a “minister” who denied the Second Coming and the Virgin birth, and who believed Jesus “attained” divinity only through “moral struggle.”

He was a serial adulterer, he had a fondness for orgies, and he beat women.

We condemn all of these qualities in other leftist radicals——which is what King was-—but he was a “bright spot”.

[Vaduz]

A con man knows a good gig when he receives fame.

[NKP_Vet]

Today is also General Robert E. Lee’s birthday. The great general deserves a national holiday in his honor before the communist MLK.

[Alex Murphy]

1. What about the reports that Dr. King was a womanizer and that soon, when FBI files are released, this will all come to light?
Well, there are a lot of rumors, but for now they are hearsay and we ought not pass on hearsay. But let us even assume for a moment that some of the rumors prove true. God has often used sinful and imperfect men to proclaim His Word and lead His people. Noah was a drinker; Lot pitched his tent toward Sodom; Abraham pimped his wife out and slept with his slave girl; Jacob was a schemer and usurper; Moses was a murderer; Jepthe killed his own daughter; David was an adulterer and a murderer; Solomon had a thousand wives … need I go on? None of this is to approve of wrongdoing but simply to note that if God waited for perfect prophets and leaders we’d be leaderless. In honoring Dr. King, we need not say we are honoring a perfect man. We honor what was best in him and what he did to call us out of our hypocrisy.

4. He is not Catholic and therefore we should not treat him like a saint or mention him in our Masses.
He is not a canonized saint and no one should pretend that he is. Yet his legacy is still to be honored and the necessary change he effected is to be reverenced.

Based upon the above answers, I can't wait to see Martin Luther be reverenced next.

[CatherineofAragon]

So many conservatives have allowed themselves to be suckered by the mythology surrounding this man.

[who knows what evil?]

Some people in the San Diego area are saddened by the 'fact' that Martin Luther King, the first African-American to walk on the moon, passed away this morning at the age of 93. (Can't post the link because the party responsible for the video isn't welcome at FR. Funny as hell, though.)

No wonder Obama was re-elected.

[defconw]

LOL! That’s funny!

[NKP_Vet]

No mythology, it’s fact that King was a communist, or at best a communist sympathizer. He also protested against the war in Vietnam and told blacks and whites not to go if called. The FBI sealed his records in 1977. They show how much of a fraud and degenerate womanizer he was. This is fact. Senator Jesse Helms said his files should be opened before any holiday was given in his honor. Then let lawmakers decide. Helms said the files would also show his communist ties as well as his philandering. Jesse Helms tried everything in his power to keep from having this anti-American honored with a national holiday. Reagan said time again King did not deserve a holiday anymore than other deserving Americans. Only George Washington before King had a federal holiday in his honor. Early stages of althiemers must have been setting in when Reagan finally approved the holiday.

[CatherineofAragon]

God bless Reagan...that may have been the case.

[defconw]

http://www.redmoonrising.com/AmericanBabylon/christandcomm.htm

[Mark17]

Today is also General Robert E. Lee’s birthday. The great general deserves a national holiday in his honor before the communist MLK.

You may be right. I believe Lee was an honorable man. He was, after all, a West Point grad. He was faced with a very tough choice. I am glad I have never been put in a positition of having to make the choice he made.

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Title of that article:

How Should A Christian View Communism?

Martin Luther King, Jr.

[defconw]

I thought it was most informative.

[Mercat]

My memory of a colored waiting room was one that my father padlocked shut in the Houston bus terminal back in the late 50s. It was a different time.