Was there any truth to the MLK rumors about his sex life?

[Archae]

I can never get a straight answer, just almost entirely accusations, like all the accusations against Bill Clinton.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

1. I'm looking around but...

...nope...no cares lying around to use.

Sorry.

[cheapdate]

2. +1

[notadmblnd]

3. Who really cares and why?

I really don't care about what two consenting adults do as long as they're not in my bed when I want to go to sleep.

[Archae]

5. Because then it makes us look like hypocrites.

We gleefully laugh our asses off at republicans who get caught in sex scandals.

I have NO idea if J. Edgar was a closet gay, if he was, it makes his persecution of MLK even worse.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

6. Huh????

The hypocrisy of Republicans is that they engage in their own sexual peccadilloes while telling EVERYONE ELSE how to live their lives. Democrats aren't in the business of making sex a campaign issue. I have no clue what MLK, JFK, Bill Clinton or any other Dems sex life has to do with that........

[Archae]

7. That's the main thing we jump on conservatives for.

Their willingness to dictate to everyone how to be "moral," when they themselves aren't.

If J. Edgar WAS gay, it makes him all the worse.

What I would like to know is just how factual was J. Edgar's "evidence."

Based on other shit the FBI pulled in the 60's, and under Nixon, I have serious doubts about these "sex tapes" J. Edgar thought he had.

[Skittles]

12. no one ever said Democrats were IMMUNE from sex scandals

the difference is, they're not screaming FAMILY VALUES while they're diddling a prostitute

[MADem]

16. We are not the party that wags fingers at people having sex. That's the GOP.

They're the ones who say it's WRONG. They're the ones who want to deny family planning services, birth control, and reproductive health support to citizens.

Geez, why are you even bringing this up on after a celebratory weekend honoring the life of one of our greatest Americans? Who cares who he screwed?

Good grief. What's hypocritical is giving a shit about someone's private sex life when that person never once tried to lecture others about their sex lives.

[HassleCat]

4. Yes, of course

J. Edgar Hoover had a collection of evidence, obtained by illegal means, he hoped would allow him to coerce King. He was somewhat disappointed because he initially hoped to establish that King was in league with communists, and all he got was extramarital affairs.

[hfojvt]

8. I believe so

and some of the accusations against Clinton were true as well.

I heard something about John Edwards and Jesse Jackson too.

[U4ikLefty]

9. Swing and a miss.

Next batter!

[WillowTree]

10. Most likely true.

Though I have no idea why anyone would be interested at this late date.

[underahedgerow]

11. Why?

?

[djean111]

13. "like all the accusations against Bill Clinton" - really? Even Bill admits some are

true.

[Deuce]

14. Try this Snopes analysis...

http://www.snopes.com/history/american/mlking.asp

[Archae]

18. Your link answers most of the questions, that I had.

Thanks.

[merrily]

15. I don't care. Why do you? He did great things, was gone far too soon and has been gone a long time.

Enough. Basta.

[Kurska]

17. I don't care

The only time that sort of thing is relevant is if it exposes some kind of hypocrisy. If MLK ever spoke out against adultery, then it certainly wasn't the core of his political message.

[Nye Bevan]

19. Many men who have done great things in one area of their life

have had serious failings in their personal lives. And this applies across the whole political spectrum. Of course I believe in freedom of the press but I still look back with some envy on the fact that the press in the 1960s did not fixate on (for example) JFK's extra-marital dalliances like today's media would.

[Archae]

20. I know what you mean. Many "heroes" or admired people in history books had problems.

George Washington was an incompetent general, and he cheated people as a surveyor, and he cheated the US government in his first term as President.

Lincoln suspended some Constitutional rights "for the war."

Martin Luther, (the church reformer,) was a vicious anti-Semite.
So was Henry Ford.

And so on.

[Iggo]

21. Oh, come on.

[awoke_in_2003]

22. Unless your name is Coretta Scott King

then it ain't your business.