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July 12, 2019

Title: MLK’s Sexual Misconduct
Topic: Martin Luther King, Jr.

Discussed by Mark Tooley
with Institute on Religion and Democracy www.theIRD.org

Disclaimer: Use caution when listening to this segment around young children. Issues discussed may be upsetting or hard for little ones to understand.

In 2017, a 20-page document released as part of the JFK Records Dump did not cast Martin Luther King, Jr. and his associates’ in a positive light.

Mark Tooley is the President of the Institute on Religion & Democracy. Prior to joining the IRD in 1994, Mark worked eight years for the Central Intelligence Agency. Mark Tooley discusses the documents released concerning MLK, Jr.

Questions/Issues Discussed:

Are the accusations of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s sexual depravity just a rumor or is there truth to the accusations?

George Washington is being condemned for owning slaves. Should his monument be destroyed and his name removed from Streets, buildings, and public schools?

Do MLK’s moral failures remind us not to idolize any human, no matter how heroic?

Does MLK’s sexual immorality invalidate his work for racial justice?

Should we trust that God uses specific people for specific reasons to fulfill His purpose?

You can read Mark Tooley’s article on this issue here.

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January 15, 2018

Title: MLK, Jr. Rediscovering Lost Values
Topic: Martin Luther King, Jr.

Discussed by Martin Luther King, Jr.
with Martin Luther King, Jr.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered this famous sermon to a large Baptist church in Detroit on February 28, 1954. "If we are to go forward," he said, "if we are to make this a better world in which to live, we've got to go back. We've got to rediscover these precious values that we've left behind."

Despite the many technological advances and material comforts of American society, King argued, humanity had lost the spiritual compass provided by a deep and abiding faith in God. "The real problem is that through our scientific genius we've made of the world a neighborhood, but through our moral and spiritual genius we've failed to make of it a brotherhood."

For more information about Martin Luther King, Jr’s sermon “Rediscovering Lost Values”, click here.

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