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Title: Remembering MLK
Source: Break Point
URL Source: http://www.breakpoint.org/2018/04/breakpoint-remembering-mlk/
Published: Apr 4, 2018
Author: Chuck Colson
Post Date: 2018-04-04 13:17:04 by redleghunter
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Remembering MLK by: Chuck Colson

Fifty years ago today, the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated. Today on BreakPoint, we’ll share Chuck Colson’s thoughts on a great man and the idea of moral law.

On April 4, 1968, the leader of the Civil Rights movement, Martin Luther King Jr.,, was gunned down on his hotel balcony in Memphis, Tennessee. It was a tragic, violent death of a great man of peace.

To honor Dr. King’s legacy today, I want to share with you a BreakPoint commentary Chuck Colson aired on Dr. King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” The issues Dr. King raised about the nature of law, what constitutes an unjust law, and how we should respond to unjust laws are eerily pertinent today.

Here’s Chuck Colson.

More than forty years ago, on August 28, 1963, a quarter million people gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial. They marched here for the cause of civil rights. And that day they heard Martin Luther King, Jr. deliver his famous “I Have a Dream” speech, a speech in which he challenged America to fulfill her promise.

“I have a dream,” he said, “that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed. We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal.”

While we know of the speech, most people are unaware that King also penned one of the most eloquent defenses of the moral law: the law that formed the basis for his speech, for the civil rights movement, and for all of law, for that matter.

In the spring of 1963, King was arrested for leading a series of massive non-violent protests against the segregated lunch counters and discriminatory hiring practices rampant in Birmingham, Alabama. While in jail, King received a letter from eight Alabama ministers. They agreed with his goals, but they thought that he should call off the demonstrations and obey the law.

King explained why he disagreed in his famous Letter from a Birmingham Jail. “One may well ask,” he wrote, “how can you advocate breaking some laws and obeying others?” The answer “is found in the fact that there are two kinds of laws: just laws … and unjust laws. One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws,” King said, “but conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.”

How does one determine whether the law is just or unjust? A just law, King wrote, “squares with the moral law of the law of God. An unjust law … is out of harmony with the moral law.”

Then King quoted Saint Augustine: “An unjust law is no law at all.” He quoted Thomas Aquinas: “An unjust law is a human law not rooted in eternal or natural law.”

This is the great issue today in the public square: Is the law rooted in truth? Is it transcendent, immutable, and morally binding? Or is it, as liberal interpreters argue, simply whatever courts say it is? Do we discover the law, or do we create it?

Many think of King as a liberal firebrand, waging war on traditional values. Nothing could be further from the truth. King was a great conservative on this central issue, and he stood on the shoulders of Augustine and Aquinas, striving to restore our heritage of justice rooted in the law of God.

Were he alive today, I believe he’d be in the vanguard of the pro-life movement. I also believe that he would be horrified at the way in which out of control courts have trampled down the moral truths he advocated.

From the time of Emperor Nero, who declared Christianity illegal, to the days of the American slave trade, from the civil rights struggle of the sixties to our current battles against abortion, euthanasia, cloning, and same-sex “marriage,” Christians have always maintained exactly what King maintained.

King’s dream was to live in harmony with the moral law as God established it. So this Martin Luther King Day, reflect on that dream—for it is worthy of our aspirations, our hard work, and the same commitment Dr. King showed.​

Another good piece from last night by Jason L. Riley (WSJ) is found here: Martin Luther King: We Can't Keep on blaming the white man

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#1. To: redleghunter (#0)

Remembering MLK

They just say that. They really DON'T want you to remember the actual man that liked to hire white whores so he could beat them,who cheated and stole to get his degree,who was a fake preacher that worked with the CPUSA and the USSR by extension to destroy America,and probably a bunch of other things I have forgotten about.

sneakypete  posted on  2018-04-04   13:21:26 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: sneakypete (#1)

They just say that. They really DON'T want you to remember the actual man that liked to hire white whores so he could beat them,who cheated and stole to get his degree,who was a fake preacher that worked with the CPUSA and the USSR by extension to destroy America,and probably a bunch of other things I have forgotten about.

Which is what J.E. Hoover dug up right?

redleghunter  posted on  2018-04-04   13:39:23 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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#9. To: redleghunter (#2)

There is a bunch of unsavory and disturbing stuff out there. Yes, the Feebs did monitor MLK closely.

Liberator  posted on  2018-04-04 14:08:28 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#31. To: redleghunter (#2)

Which is what J.E. Hoover dug up right?

That's the theory,but nobody really knows what heshe dug up.

Hoover turned out to be one of the rarest things in the known universe,an honest crook. None of his blackmail files have ever surfaced AFAIK.

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