Devotion to the cause of MLK Jr.

It is gratifying to hear so many politicians celebrate the efforts of Martin Luther King Jr. to expand freedom to all people. For many years the most obvious disenfranchised community was African American. But there were also Women, Children, Immigrants and the Handicapped who stood (and stand) in line to be free from discrimination.

And in much the same way that a large fraction of our neighbors did not see African-Americans as fully human, today a similarly large fraction do not see those with alternative sexual orientations as fully human with the same hopes, fears, needs and capabilities as themselves. It is just as unreasonable and unchristian today as it was 200 years ago to perpetuate the persecution of someone for reasons beyond their personal choice.

I can only hope that Politicians representing communities with these obsolete beliefs have an epiphany to the meaning behind the greatness of Lincoln, King and others with the courage to lead their constituents out of the darkness.

“It is for us, the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced”