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Entry: Was MLK Really Pro-Life? Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/was_mlk_really_pro_life#25475 Post contents: I would be more than happy to concede a monopoly to the Catholic Church over what is to be called Christian (they can appropriate, malign, torture, exile, or otherwise abuse whatever still bears that label for all I care), but none of that has anything to do with Marcus’ article (the nominal topic of this discussion). We seem to have wandered off into another tiresome debate about nothing, perpetrated by the sort of people who spend their time typing insults at each other (with the anonymous impunity that is the great gift of the Internet to cowards) while striking poses of moral superiority. Posing: what Marcus was talking about. Some of the pro-lifers or Republicans now waddling their way into the light they think is reflecting off the left’s holy objects of the moment really believe, what? That somebody will become pro-life or vote Republican because pro-lifers and Republicans are the true heirs of Martin Luther King, Nelsen Mandela, or Rosa Parks?!? Neither camp is lacking for morons, it’s true, but I still suspect most of them are affecting this rhetoric to play the moral status game, like Prius owners, or white people with Obama stickers on their cars. They can photoshop themselves next to Martin Luther King and their enemies next to Hitler all they’d like, and puff up and dance around, but like the RNC pandering to the Mexicans, the other side can always pander better, and always will. These arguments tell everyone that the other side is right while convincing nobody that you’re on it. Generally it takes about fifteen years for American conservatives to do that, at which point they really are on the other side. Sent at: 2008 09 07