if MLK lived how would his stances on social issues be today?
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rob in cal
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« on: January 19, 2009, 05:01:47 PM »

I'm wondering how MLK would have evolved politically today in terms of his stances on some of the hot button social issues of today such as gay marriage, abortion, school vouchers, prayer in public schools etc.  I wonder if he took a stance on the supreme court outlawing prayer in public schools as that happened in his lifetime.  The only indication that I can think of would be the political stances taken by people around him such as Jesse Jackson, Julian Bond, John Lewis who became public officials.  I may be wrong here, but basically haven't  their stances on these type of issues been similar to that of most liberal democrat elected officials?
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« Reply #1 on: January 19, 2009, 05:04:25 PM »

similar to Jesse Jackson
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« Reply #2 on: January 19, 2009, 06:28:51 PM »

Coretta Scott King said he would have been in favor of gay rights, and she was a spokeswoman for them herself.
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« Reply #3 on: January 19, 2009, 06:32:50 PM »

This is one black man's take on it.  To a certain extent I'm pretty sure he's right.
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« Reply #4 on: January 19, 2009, 09:19:14 PM »

He would have been too busy protesting our barbaric foreign policy exploits to worry that much about social issues.
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« Reply #5 on: January 20, 2009, 04:07:02 AM »

If MLK were still alive I think his main focus of the past 40 years would have been achieving economic equality for blacks.  I believe that he was an influential enough figure that we would be living in a much different America had he not been assassinated.  I think the income gap between whites and minorities would be much smaller than it is right now and that there wouldn't be so many absent fathers in the black community. 
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« Reply #6 on: January 20, 2009, 02:34:54 PM »

Economic and racial justice for ALL.  And a policy of peace abroad.
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« Reply #7 on: January 20, 2009, 02:42:23 PM »

Left on economics, race, foreign policy and right on morals issues.
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« Reply #8 on: January 20, 2009, 02:47:33 PM »

Had MLK lived, today he would be an old, as well a religious.
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