You, like so many others are missing the point of this topic. To decide whether my children should look up to a certain person’s character has zero to do with throwing the first stone. Jesus said “beware of the leaven of the Pharisees.” Paul the Apostle warned about certain evil men who if they didn’t repent were condemned. The martyr Steven in the book of Acts accused men of crucifying Jesus.
The people of the United States of America did wrong in “forgiving” Bill Clinton in that it was not at all about forgiveness; the missed opportunity is: “Who shall we follow?” (He ought to have been removed from office to protect this country, not to judge him.)
It is about choosing our leaders and heroes. It has nothing to do with throwing a stone and injuring or killing the subject.
I can find enough marxist liberal components in MLK (even though he claimed to be a Republican) to not want to celebrate much of his life.
I do not play the WWJD game when it comes to someone’s soul.
to quote:
“We must rapidly begin the shift from a ‘thing-oriented’ society to a ‘person-oriented’ society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.”
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.