Originally Posted By Dabob2 I'm not entirely sure MLK DID tell his congregants who to vote for. Perhaps someone can find a definitive video clip or quote somewhere, but we should not assume this. For one thing, up until the last couple of years of his life, his congregants in his (southern) church hard a very hard time voting at all(!); even though ostensibly they had the right to, practically they usually could not.
Originally Posted By alexbook >>This sermon was different in that they specifically said "vote republican."<< Except for this guy, who told his parishioners to vote American Independent: <a href="http://www.ocregister.com/articles/drake-church-irs-2172813-say-pastors" target="_blank">http://www.ocregister.com/arti...-pastors</a>
Originally Posted By Elderp Why would he do that? Isn't the AIP like the psuedo communist party. Wierd, but whatever.
Originally Posted By alexbook >>Isn't the AIP like the psuedo communist party.<< Wrong end of the spectrum. The AIP was started by Southern Democrats who were upset at Lyndon Johnson and Hubert Humphrey for endorsing liberal notions like desegregation. This year, their Presidential candidate is Alan Keyes, who ran for the Republican nomination and lost.
