MLK Jr. on Prayer in Schools
By ED BRAYTON - DISPATCHES FROM THE CULTURE WARS
Added: Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:25:40 UTC
There has been a furious effort by the Christian right in recent years to turn Martin Luther King, Jr. into one of them, in the same manner that they have tried so hard to make the Founding Fathers into mirror images of themselves. But as Rob Boston points out, King did not join them in condemning the Supreme Court’s ruling on mandatory prayer in schools:
King supported the Supreme Court’s decisions striking down government-sponsored prayer in public schools. In a January 1965 interview with Playboy magazine, King was asked about one of those rulings. He not only backed what the court did, he noted that his frequent nemesis, Gov. George Wallace of Alabama, stood on the other side.
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