The Constitution’s First Amendment guarantees freedom of speech and freedom of religion.
??What kind of outrage is it that blacks should be willing to accept, in a ceremony commemorating a signature event in civil rights history, that we witness both abrogation of freedom of speech and freedom of religion???
We live in a free country. Those who don’t wish to read the Christian Bible are not forced to. Those who don’t wish to live as Christians are not forced to.??
But it is quite another thing when traditional Christian values are used as the reason to blacklist a pastor, particularly from an event commemorating black civil rights.
??Let’s be aware of the concerted effort on the left to purge from memory that Dr. King was a Christian pastor, inspired by the truth of the gospel, who led an organization called the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
??No reference is made at all to King’s Christianity at the new memorial to him on the national mall.??
I would argue that it is these very efforts to purge Christian values and replace them with political power that has limited the success and achievement of the civil rights movement.
??It is the collapse of black family life, the escalation of crime and disease — much tied to irresponsible sexual behavior — that has occurred over the 50 years since the March on Washington that has been so deleterious to black progress.??
The civil rights movement was a Christian movement. It is high time that the black pastor, rather than the black politician, return to leadership in black American life. It is time for the Bible, rather than political answers, to define black life.
Star Parker