Louisville Courier Journal Editorial: "A Cause Perverted". I Agree.

A cause perverted

Fresh back from his starring role at the Lincoln Memorial playing Martin Luther King Jr. to Sarah Palin's Rosa Parks in a new production — “Reclaiming the Civil Rights Movement,” sponsored by Fox News and others on the political right — Glenn Beck quickly reverted to his usual self. After ascending to his mountaintop and seeing the Promised Land — the thousands of people who showed up for his rally Saturday — Mr. Beck took out after President Obama's religious beliefs.

Though he broke with an idea consistently peddled by commentators and guests on his network that President Obama is a secret Muslim, Mr. Beck, in a post-production interview, seems to concede that Obama may, in fact, be a Christian, but not of the sort that Mr. Beck understands or approves of. The President, he said, “is a guy who understands the world through liberation theology, which is oppressor-and-victim.” And the President's faith? Well, he explained, “It's not Muslim, it's not Christian. It's a perversion of the gospel of Jesus Christ as most Christians know it.” The President's is a faith of “collectivism, not individual salvation.”

So, what to say about Glenn Beck's rally on Saturday? He had the right to hold it and thousands showed up, though the numbers are disputed. At the same time, the rumblings that many also heard on Saturday were probably the spirits of the icons — Dr. King, Rosa Parks, Viola Liuzzo, Fannie Lou Hamer, the four little black girls murdered and martyred at the Birmingham church, Emmett Till and the three civil rights workers who were murdered by the KKK in Mississippi — crying out that their cause is being perverted by a man who promotes an agenda for America that nowhere approximates what they lived, fought, worked and died for.