“Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would be absolutely mortified with today’s gay/straight alliance groups”, and it saddens me greatly that it is indeed possible that you are correct on this point (though the evidence I have researched goes both ways on this issue – pun intended) …

 

For the purposes of our current discussion, if we assume that you are correct, and thereby assume that MLK did denounce homosexuality itself as a mortal sin, then this only goes to show that even the most enlightened of us can also be ignorant; that even those who have climbed the heights of LOVE can fall from its brilliant summit; that even the most brilliant of us can also utter stupidities; and that even the most devout men of God can sink into the ignorance of dogmatic bigotry.   For Dr. King to denounce homosexuality in the manner you claimed he did only means that he too was either a hypocrite or a bigot or both – and man whose words should be neither honored nor followed when dealing with the Bible’s handful of homophobic slurs.

 

Of course, just as I err on the side of seeing Jesus’ LOVE as “perfect” like his Father’s (and therefore also see Revelation’s portrayal of him as a wicked & violent son of wrath as a flagrantly false teaching), so too will I err on the side of believing that Martin Luther King was neither a hypocrite nor a bigot; that he would have championed the same freedom from oppression for homosexuals & transgenders that he was championing so nobly & selflessly for his own people.

 

Amen … Let it have been so.

Filed under: Burnishing Bigotry by Scaughdt