MLK as weapon

by Prometheus 6
August 29, 2003 - 7:45am.
on Race and Identity

It just annoys me to see people using Dr. King as a tool to implement an agenda.

In this case it's an editorial in American Daily titled Why Was It OK For Martin Luther King To Defy An Immoral Law, But Not Judge Moore?

So, where does that leave us? Is the next step to remove from the Declaration of Independence, which is sometimes studied in public schools, the sentence: ?We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain, unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness??

No court, no legislature, no king or president created those rights, under our system of government. If that is not true, then the Courts, the Legislatures and the kings and presidents of the world DO create the rights ? and, therefore, can change them at will.

And, where would that leave the Rev. Martin Luther King if he were alive today? If an inanimate object like a monument is banned from public property, because of its silent witness of the notion that there IS an authority other than man and the law of the jungle, on which the law is based how could a minister operating out of his church, like Martin Luther King, have the ?right? to stand on public property and urge people to resist an unequal and unjust law as he did?

If the law, even if it is unjust , cannot be resisted EVER, and there IS no natural or God?s law, where would Martin Luther King or anyone else get such the ?right? to resist tyranny?

Dr. King's motivation may (and I say may) have been rooted in religion but his actions were justified by the law.

The right to resist tyranny is in the laws of the land. It is not necessary to avail oneself of religious precepts to justify it.

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