Dr. King isn’t getting his due from what I can see. After all, if we’re serious about honoring the Civil Rights Movement’s greatest hero shouldn’t we be using the observation of his birthday as an excuse to shill for a quick buck? Isn’t that the American way?
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Barack Obama is on the cusp of inheriting a nation where many of the conditions that fomented McVeigh’s terrorism not only remain, but have been exacerbated by nose-diving economic conditions and piqued political rhetoric. There’s already fear that the federal government is going to come hard after the Second Amendment — a short-fuse issue for those on the extreme political right.
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Let’s face it, few people take evangelicals seriously anymore. We’re viewed as grumpy, narrow-minded crackpots who believe in ancient fairy tales, and when evangelicals make the news, as with this protest preaching, we play into the prevailing stereotype.
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