Happy MLK Day!

God Himself adopts children of all races without distinction.

by Rod D. Martin
January 15, 2007

The achievement of full civil rights for blacks was one of America's singular accomplishments in the 20th Century, overcoming centuries of prejudice and oppression and adopting a fully Christian view of the majority's fellowman: i.e., that race is irrelevant, that creed is everything. God Himself adopts children of all races without distinction. Why should America act differently?

One beautiful expression of this idea which will be much quoted today is Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech, delivered August 28, 1963 from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial (the monument to the Republican President who freed the slaves over the violent opposition of both the pro-slavery Democratic Party in the North and the secessionist Democratic Party regime in the Confederate South).

But an even better -- and less well-remembered -- statement of the importance of full equality was another of King's writings, his "Letter From the Birmingham Jail". Every American sho…