Would Dr. King Vote for Obama...

In the days that followed the 2008 Presidential election I noticed that a lot of African American churches where holding victory services for President Elect Obama. While it's a major first in our country's history with the victory of Sen. Obama for President the question comes to mind of how much should our churches be rejoicing in this victory. This question isn't out of the possibilities of churches loosing their tax status with the government, but rather on a couple of main issues that Obama stands for. Those two issues being abortion and gay marriage. Of course Obama will say he doesn't believe in gay marriage, but rather co-habitation rights; so he tries to get by with a technicality. Anyways, during all of these victory services I continue to hear the name Dr. King and how this victory is the dream that he was referring to in his "I have a dream" speech. Ultimately all the talk of Dr. King brought forth the big question and title of this blog, "Would Dr. King vote for Obama?" As I continue to research Dr. King I hope to add different articles or info from time to time. The following is a portion of an article entitled "Myths of Martin Luther King" written by Marcus Epstein and it just might surprise you as it did me. If we solely base our opinion off of Mr. Epstein's article then the answer to my question would have to be an emphatic "YES", Dr. King would of voted for Obama. The myths brought forth by Mr. Epstein are listed below, but I do encourage you to read the entire article.

Myth #1: King wanted only equal rights, not special privileges and would have opposed affirmative action, quotas, reparations, and the other policies pursued by today’s civil rights leadership.

Myth # 2: King was an American patriot, who tried to get Americans to live up to their founding ideals.

Myth # 3: King was a Christian activist whose struggle for civil rights is similar to the battles fought by the Christian Right today.

Myth # 4: King was an anti-communist.

Myth # 5: King supported the free market.

Myth # 6: King was a conservative.

Myth # 7: King wasn’t a plagiarist.

Each myth mentioned has links attached to them for your reference. This is a very interesting read at a very interesting time in our country.

In Christ Alone,
Mr. V.