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When Wheaton College hosted a community memorial service after Dr. King died Tim LaHaye (yes that time LaHaye) freaked out and wrote an angry letter hinting that he might not be able to recommend the school to his parishioners anymore.
"It seems incredible," he wrote, "that a Christian college could participate in honoring an out-right theological liberal heretic whose 'non-violent' demonstrations have resulted in the deaths of seventeen people."
Of course (really, *of course* this would be so) decades later LaHaye was opportunistically quoting King. In "A Nation Without A Conscience" (1994) LaHaye cited King on the need for the church to recapture its prophetic zeal lest it become an irrelevant social club.
The oppose/deny/appropriate cycle is happening again. White evangelicals' grandchildren will learn the black lives matter movement was good. That'll be awkward. Wouldn't it be better to skip past the several decades of denial ahead and just do the right thing now?
