The sermon that shaped Martin Luther King Jr.
In his favorite sermon, “The Three Dimensions of a Complete Life,” Martin Luther King Jr.’s emphasis was on the most inclusive end - variety and depth in our choice of values. He tried to live a coherent life in which the widest possible range of values was realized. Hence, he selected values embracing diversity and difference and expressing the ecumenical and pluralistic.
King would be for President Obama’s repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” because this law demonizes honesty. He would be for gay rights, because the United States Constitution is for expanding rights, not limiting them.
This is deep freedom, the democratic right to self definition.
King stressed that you cannot legislate or vote human rights out of existence, because they have a different sanction than civil rights. Civil rights are sanctioned by the state or government, but human rights are sanctioned by human need, human nature, human biology, and, indeed, ‘nature’s God .’
King always looked ahead to the consequences of the choices before him and chose according. Present acts always reverberate in the future. King’s teacher at Boston University, Edgar Sheffield Brightman said, “The means used in our choices eventually echo in the halls of history.”
In his speech at New York City’s Riverside Church, given April 4, 1967, on why he opposed the war in Vietnam, King was deeply concerned about what American bombs and napalm were doing to the rice fields of Vietnam, the primary means of livelihood for the Vietnamese people. But peering into the halls of history, he was equally concerned about connectivity with nature as value and our responsibility for ecological wholeness. All planetary citizens ought to perceive themselves as integral parts of intrinsically-valued nature, and thus assume stewardship for the ecosystem by carrying out the demands of the earth charter.
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King stressed that you cannot legislate or vote human rights out of existence, because they have a different sanction than civil rights. Civil rights are sanctioned by the state or government, but human rights are sanctioned by human need, human nature
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