Heritage Foundation claims MLK, Jr. as one of their own....

[rfranklin]

January 12, 2006

Martin Luther King's Conservative Legacy
by Carolyn Garris
WebMemo #961

It is time for conservatives to lay claim to the legacy of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. King was no stalwart conservative, yet his core beliefs, such as the power and necessity of faith-based association and self-government based on absolute truth and moral law, are profoundly conservative. Modern liberalism rejects these ideas, while conservatives place them at the center of their philosophy. Despite decades of its appropriation by liberals, King’s message was fundamentally conservative.

The Montgomery Bus Boycott, triggered by Rosa Parks’ refusal to abide by local segregation laws, sparked King’s rise from ministering a small church in Montgomery to national renown. King’s primary aim was not to change laws, but to change people, to make neighbors of enemies and a nation out of divided races. King led with love, not racial hatred. From a jail cell in Birmingham, Alabama to the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, his message inspired the nation. And his message and achievements inspire us today.

Dr. King believed in the principles of the American Founding. He maintained, "We will reach the goal of freedom in Birmingham and all over the nation, because the goal of America is freedom." Throughout American history, racism has posed a peculiar obstacle to the achievement of that goal. However, Dr. King believed that the Founders had set the nation on the right course. He did not reject the principles of our nation because contradictions existed; instead he hoped that racial groups would put aside their differences and acknowledge the principles that unite all Americans. Today, it is conservatives who seek to unite. In a nation divided by cultural diversity, conservatives defend and celebrate the characteristics that we share as Americans. As America drifts from the ideas and ideals of the Founders, conservatives stand with King as believers that the principles of the American Founding are as relevant today as in 1776.

http://www.heritage.org/Research/AmericanFoundingandHistory/wm961.cfm

[rucky]

1. Of course they do.

:freak:

[Warpy]

2. Just when you think that bunch can't get any more surreal

they surprise you by falling farther down the rabbit hole.

Good grief.

[Fridays Child]

7. Or any more disgusting.

:puke:

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. "Today, it is conservatives who seek to unite."

Bwahahahahaha! :rofl::crazy: :silly: :wow: :popcorn: :rofl: :spray: :yoiks:

[LeftyMom]

4. I guess they missed the anti-war part?

Or his criticism of capitalism?
And if he wanted to change people and not laws, why march on Washington?

They must have extra strength KoolAid in the Heritage Foundation water cooler.

edit: Can't type for you-know-what today.

[Binka]

5. OK Let Me Get This Hitler Was A Liberal And King Had The Values Of The GOP?

I want to kick something. :wtf: Utter compelete CLAPTRAP FUCKWITTAGE.

[smokey nj]

9. War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ketchup is a Vegetable.......

:banghead:

[flashl]

6. Another American myth. n/t

[opihimoimoi]

8. Trying to clean their sorry act with revisionist crap...Conservativism is the real Bad Term

Them Conservatives have fucked America and now they wanna clean their act...fuck them....