Okay, on the up side...

[beam me up scottie]

we (myself and a great guy I work with) convinced a fundie-but-not-a-freeper-yet christian co-worker of ours to actually sit down and listen to MLK's I Have A Dream speech last night.

His opinion?

He was stunned.

He had no words to describe how moved he was.

He has NEVER, not ONCE, not EVER listened to any of Dr. King's speeches.

Apparently nobody in his family or church ever considered the possibility that MLK's Dream would include them.



This is the kind of intolerance that we're up against, folks.

I think (and he agrees) that many, if not most, white christian fundies around here are taught to ignore the words and deeds of peacemakers like Dr. King, and even worse, to view them with suspicion.



But he listened to the speech with his wife and kids last night.

And Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., long in his grave, still managed to touch the hearts of everyone in that family.


He said he's going to have his daughter download every one of his speeches she can find on the internet.



It's a start.