On this day observing Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday even his own family has to interpret what he said. I always understood that he was a follower of Ghandi's "satyagraha" to an extreme as a means of change and that he believed that ALL people had the same rights, responsibilities and privilege. It seems that though Coretta Scott King stands by his teachings to the fullest, his daughter and niece participated in marches recently that clearly were based on discriminating against gays, saying that they "knew" that King would be totally opposed to same-sex marriage in any form.
If this is true, then King was not a follower of his own beliefs. I also wonder how they can connect that Bayard Rustin, one of King's closest advisors and the person who organized the famous 1963 march on Washington, was an openly gay man? I have always wondered how people can second guess the dead!
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