Great post.
I wish more conservative writers would take this position
on MLK, and take it publicly.
MLK did try "bargaining" with local officials. But he shouldn't have had to.
Everyone of those individuals had a right to sit ins and protests!
I am totally in favor of Inauguration Day being a Holiday as well as Election Day. Patriotism, government participation, freedom, exercising our rights publicly make for a great reason to celebrate....not MLK at the expense of another good and noble part of our culture.
The author's wrong about civil disobedience. King responded to his critics in his famous "Letter From A Birmingham Jail." He never advocated disobeying the law in general or contravening the orderly principles of society. But he did say the Christian is not obligated to obey a law that contravenes the law of God and distorts or oppresses the human personality. Citizens are duty bound to disobey a law that says you're not equal with the rest of God's Children and moreso if it is a law you had no part in making. And King emphasized that one is willing to bear punishment for breaking such a law to bring the attention of the community to the fact of its injustice. No conservative can condone anarchy but no conservative can condone injustice as well.