Where is the Martin Luther King Jr. of the Religious Right?

Question

From my letter printed in amNY, 6/8/06:
When I read about Ann Coulter¹s new book "Godless: The Church of Liberalism" and her diatribe against the 9/11 widows, I thought to myself, "Where is the Martin Luther King, Jr. of the Christian Right? Where is the guy or gal who fervently believes in and fights for his positions, yet offers his hand in reconciliation to his opponents, hoping to change their hearts?" ...Is there any right-wing follower of Jesus out there who isn¹t condemning the left wholesale?
http://www.amny.com/news/opinion/am-0608lett01,0,5286501.story?coll=am-letters-headlines
***
I thought of columnist Becky Miller of Oregon, and of John Dawson, author of Healing America's Wounds. It sure isn't Ann Coulter, Jerry Falwell, or Pat Robertson. So, who is, or could become, the MLK of the Christian Right?

Friend of God: I welcome your prayers. I regularly watched the 700 Club during the 1980s. My impression is right. My negative impressions of the Religious Right come mostly from Robertson and "Christian" radio. I love Jesus, and I think the R.R. has hijacked him for greed, power, and pride, like the 1st-century Pharisees hijacked Judaism.

MC H: good illustration about Gandhi. However, I believe there are sincere right-of-center Christians who can't stand--or are suspicious of--the extreme, and want to co-ordinate with the Left Side of the Body. They just don't know yet to speak up, or haven't woken up yet. BTW, Powell eventually left Bush. (Maybe it'll be Powell?) Also BTW, I'm Black, too!

Pretty good, Freelance! I think you're the front runner right now!

Answer 1

I consider myself a politically moderate evangelical. I can't say I like much about the current state of either the Democratic or Republican parties, but I pray for leaders in both camps. I think a major problem we have in the U.S. is that we've assumed that Christians necessarily have to be aligned with one political party or the other. But remember that Jesus frustrated both the Pharisees (the conservatives of their day) and the Sadducees (the liberals). The issue shouldn't be who can re-invigorate a certain demographic among Christians, but who can unite all believers no matter their political views.

Answer 2

That's like asking who's the Mohatma Ghandi of the Nazi Party. These people strive to separate the wealthy from the poor, the christians from anyone else, and to build concentration camps while eliminating all human rights except for the select few.

] "The greatest guilt today is that of people who accept collectivism
] by moral default; the people who seek protection from the necessity
] of taking a stand, by refusing to admit to themselves the nature of
] that which they are accepting; the people who support plans
] specifically designed to achieve serfdom, but hide behind the empty
] assertion that they are lovers of freedom, with no concrete meaning
] attached to the word; the people who believe that the content of
] ideas need not be examined, that principles need not be defined,
] and that facts can be eliminated by keeping one's eyes shut. They
] expect, when they find themselves in a world of bloody ruins and
] concentration camps, to escape moral responsibility by wailing:
] 'But I didn't mean this!'"

- Ayn Rand, from the preface to "Anthem", _1947_


By the way, Martin Luther King Jr. was black. Aside from the obedient "house boys" such as Colin Powell (Harry Belfonte called him that) or J.C. Watts, how many blacks do you see among the Religious Reich or the neo-concentration camp crowd? You don't. Kanye West was right.

Answer 3

Matt 5:44 - But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.
I pray for those on the left. I am on the right. I think you have the wrong impression of Pat Robertson though. How many times have you watched his program (700 club) to know what you are talking about, or do you only know what the news has reported?