I have great sorrow when I consider the secret story of Martin Luther King's life.
Sexual addiction is a good description of it and I think this kind of "sickness" is something we don't want to face or talk about.
Tiger Woods appears to be facing his addiction right now and I wish him well.
As for Dr. King, his problem seems to be buried in a sea of idolization and denial.
There are too many cheerleaders (including conservatives) who want to join the praise and accolades.
As for me, I have to stand back and ask questions.
The questions go beyond this to the social and political aspects of MLK's life, but for this moment I choose to take note of the lust-sex addiction of Dr. King and ask how it can be reconciled to a national holiday and greatness.
When Dr. Martin Luther King and King Solomon met in glory, it surely was with a nod and a wink....
As to the question of "how", one way is by making the same asservations of George Washington, for one. The evidence for this is oblique, but it is enough to get one's attention. What is the true story there? I myself wonder.
There is a person’s work, and then there is the person. I think God has a lot of fun having obviously imperfect people to great works - it serves as an extremely efficient smack-down to moralists who would presume to judge the value of someone’s soul. In my experience, humility is taught in two methods - as a warning, and then if not heeded, as a demonstration. I believe Jesus, amongst many others throughout history, beseeched people to heed the first method, and thereby avoid the second. I believe lack of compassion is a sure sign the second method is eventually going to be required.
Beyond what you have said already, I have always made the following statements to myself and asked the following question of myself:
01. ) Every man and woman who has ever served in the U.S. military, both dead and survivors of wars, get one day per year, including all of the Medal of Honor winners.
02. ) All presidents, ( supposedly combined Washington’s and Lincoln’s birthday ) get one holiday.
Why does a black who was a hardcore conscientious objector, reference 01. ) above, and who never held any elective office, reference 02. ) above, get his own day?
Very tacky. This is about on par with saying Grant’s Tomb and the portrait on the Fifty Dollar Bill are to celebrate an alcoholic guy with bad cigar breath.
Wow, this is the first time I heard of this. What a pity! There are numerous other names which could be added to the list such as Michael Jackson, and Elvis Presley. The only one who ever lived a sinless life - Jesus Christ - is ridiculed.
Such a topsy, turvy world we live in where good is called evil, and evil - good.
I see a new federal holiday on the horizon - - December 30th.
Tiger Woods day!
Dr. Martin Luther King “...did not want to be a saint or viewed as a saint. He was just a human being, capable of becoming and producing and leading his people out of the wilderness of segregation into the promised land...”
And Obama is reversing every bit of Kings work.
Sexual Addiction is and has been hard for our culture to accept as a reality.
Yet with Tiger Woods and Bill Clinton as classic examples we find it hard to accept.
Read Patrick Carnes “Out of the Shadows” to discover why Tiger Woods is now in his care.
Addiction is addiction is addiction....there are just different routes.
The difference between Tiger Woods and Martin Luther King Jr. is that Tiger Woods’ accomplishment, like any sports or movie star is to get publicity and notoriety, while King’s and Kennedy’s fame is based on at least some substance. When bad pub washed away good pub, substance is what survives.
(In the Talmud, the term "evil inclination" (yetzer hara) is often used to mean the libido.)
It would have been better to create a holiday called "Civil Rights Day," to honor King's accomplishments, and the accomplishments of many others. Perhaps that change can still be made.
Not PC,,,Sooooo,,,
The name was changed so it did not lay the blame on
people of weak will with no morals,,,
Every time King or the Kennedys opened their mouths it
empowered those little basturds that were tryin’ to kill me
and guys that were as close as a Brother to me,,,
TET ‘68 started 42 years ago the 31st. of Jan.24:00 hrs.
I never heard a word from King et al about the 6,000 people
that were murdered in Hue City alone,,,
(crabbyassed ol’man rant!)...:0(...
Sexual addiction my @ss. There is no such thing. He enjoyed sex, period. He didn't want to control himself.
From that great philosopher:
“Money for nothin, chicks for free”
They are the maggot spawn of Affirmative Action and the War on Poverty that thrive off King's dead body.
from wiki...On October 11, 1991, Swaggart was found, for the second time, in the company of a prostitute, Rosemary Garcia,[6] when he was pulled over by the California Highway Patrol in Indio, California, for driving on the wrong side of the road. According to Garcia, Swaggart stopped to proposition her on the side of the road. When the patrolman asked Garcia why she was with Swaggart, she replied, "He asked me for sex. I mean, that's why he stopped me. That's what I do. I'm a prostitute."
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So, King wasn’t much different than Jesse ‘nuts off’ Jackson, or Al ‘how many illegitimate children’ Sharpton, eh?
Kind David had issues. So did Solomon.
One lesson I take from that is that in many cases, the average saved sinner on the street is a better person than either of them. Paul killed Christians by the bushel, but became and apostle.
We’re broken people. That simple. Those that stay faithful in marriage and work hard to bring up their kids are bigger people than those we enshrine in most cases.