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Having gone and read his bio, I again note that he's not risked his personal health and safety, nor his material comfort in speaking out for others.

In other words, he has made no sacrifice in his agenda to impose strict morality by law, a social in which he would find himself a power broker.

How does that compare to King going to jail, risking his safety and finally losing his life over pushing for black citizens to have political equality and the ability to compete and participate economically?

Interesting premise....

The only way to be considered great is if you risk personal health or safety? That is really not how you define greatness, is it? I know you can do better than that.

Seems that would cut out many of the folks we historically have claimed to be great...including almost every great statesman after our founding fathers. And it would include many folks we would not think were great (Hitler himself risked personnel health, safety and material comfort for many years in order to come to power...but that is not exactly the defination of great I would want to use). Jesse Jackson is thus great, Stalin makes the cut, as does Castro.

Maybe someone is great if they go to great lengths to improve the lot of their fellow man, especially if they succeed. I am sure you can improve upon my first cut of great, but you get the point.

In this defination, I think in many ways both Dobson and MLK make the cut, though all could argue to different degrees. How you add or subtract for a man's personal sins is another matter (i.e the old "can a man be great if he helps many others yets beats his wife and kids or has many extramarital affairs?" argument).

A bit confused why you hate Dobson so much. You don't have to agree with him about this momument, but whether you like all his opinions or not even you should recognize he has done many good things for literally tens of thousand of the poor, the downtrodden or those in dispair.

And I have seen no evidence of him wanting to enact any laws imposing a strict morality in which he would be a power broker. Good grief, the man is in his 70's and retired if I am not mistaken.

Doesn't mean you have to agree with him in this case.