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Were Republicans forcing their religion on others when...?

...abolitionists, many of them clergymen, fought to end slavery on the basis of their religious beliefs? What about when Martin Luther King, Jr. (a Republican clergyman) fought for civil rights?

Update:

I figured the mythical flip-flop would come up. Typical liberal revisionism.

Update 3:

All the liberal back-pedaling and revisionism is amusing to watch. Sources please. I have generously provided mine.

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  • 9 years ago
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    Good things don't count...

    Source(s): a liberal told me so...
  • 9 years ago

    The Quakers were the abolitionist clergymen.

    Southern Baptists and Evangelical Christians were the slave holders,using the Bible as the source of Divine approval of slavery.

    The Hamitic Myth that the descendants of Ham

    (Noah's son,the one who saw him drunk) were destined by God himself to be slaves

    and

    Lev c25v44-46 (dare you to read it).

    Dr King while a Republican by party was a ...,.what ?....LIBERAL.

    What was he doing in Memphis April 4 ?

    Preparing to assist black municipal sanitation workers.

    Who bombed the buses of the Freedom Riders ? Athiests ?

    Whats the spiritual affiliation of the KKK ? The Order ? The Aryan Brotherhood ?

  • 9 years ago

    MLK had many socalist values he wanted bigger federal goverment to help protect the blacks from southern goverments. Abolishnist were chirstians so were a lot of people in the south who wanted to keep blacks in slavery.

    I would also remind a few of the democrat secularlist that is a belief too, and I see you guys liking to push it on people who don't want it, and demanding that a majority sumbit to your will so you guys don't get offended if there is a cross in a public square.

  • 9 years ago

    You make the strange and completely false assumption that Republicans then were conservative as Republicans now are. Anyone who has studied the politics in the US knows that the parties have changed their fundamental party values many times over the past 200-odd years. Whether or not MLKjr, or anyone really, was a Republican back then doesn't mean he would have been a Republican by today's standards, just as a Democrat back then wouldn't necessarily have been a Democrat by today's standards.

    Conservatives fought against the end of slavery, they fought against women's rights, they fought against women's suffrage, they fought against the Civil Rights movement, and they fought against interracial marriage. The people you mentioned were, by any definition of the word, liberals.

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  • Wally
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    9 years ago

    Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Democrat, not a republican. But yes, republicans have been forcing christian religious views for decades.

  • 9 years ago

    Bhahaha! That's an idiotic argument!

    There were many, many, many arguments FOR slavery using the bible. Read the OT!

    There are 1500 Xian sects in the USA...are you really so naive as to think they all agree with each other? lol lol lol

    Source(s): ffrf.org
  • 9 years ago

    Republicans freed the slaves when republicans were northern (i.e., Democrats of today). Learn your history, people.

  • 9 years ago

    That was before they did that whole Liberal-to-Conservative flip flop.

    Times have changed & the GOP policies have changed with them.

    Are you saying this because your party just nominated David Duke? Trying to cover up with blatant racism of a Duke nomination?

  • 9 years ago

    Republicans freed the slaves.

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    Republicans don't share the same religion. But, this myth has been largely used to convince the minorities that Republicans are all SUV-driving Catholics who fart beer and beef.

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