Jesus Politics (Dr. Land is the New Dr. King) posts this Baptist Press article where Land is still quoting MLK…(or is it the same quote being recycled? I dunno)

Richard Land is talking about the “breadth” of issues they are concerned about. The amazement we now have about how bigoted the Conservatives were in the 60’s is going to be the same kind of disgust with which millions will view the neoconservatives (and their best Church allies, the Southern Baptists) some day when all their skullduggery and their outlandish support for coprporate advanatage over the bulk of the American citizenry is exposed as the dterimental, sickeningly selfish , cynical politics that it is.

The Old Testament prophets and Jesus are watching, and remembering, and still speaking us to us today.

IN addition, King had a “poor people’s campaign” and spoke clearly against Vietname. The do the same with King as they do with the Pope. They squelch the clear messages of king and John Paul to cast themselves in postive light. Land’s Southern Baptist Convention fundamentalist ancestors were the most vociforous and racist opponents of Dr. King’s movement WHEN IT WAS HAAPENING. They were certainly also strongly in support of slavery , and among the last to let go of that, and kept segregation rolling for the next 100+ years. So what will humanity discover about itself over the next 100 years? And how far behind will the Southern Baptists lag before they join up with what the rest who live in reality land?

Land at Harvard: Religious right concerned about many issues – (BP)

the quote from Land:

“Dr. King took his profoundly Christian beliefs about what was right and what was wrong into the public arena to condemn and to seek to transform a great social evil in our culture,” Land said. “Segregationists were trying to impose their immorality on Dr. King and were doing a fairly successful job of it, by the way. Dr. King, based on his convictions as a Baptist minister like the abolitionists before him, used his religiously informed moral values to challenge that immorality, and when he convinced enough Americans that he was right, it changed. And by the way, they did change the law.”