Anthony Weiner Scandal: C’mon, America, Nobody’s Perfect – The Daily Beast.

Here’s the picture:

OK, I want to know: would the civil rights movement never happened without Martin Luther King Jr? Would we still have Democrats ruling a segregated South?

I don’t believe it.

How do we know that Martin Luther King, Jr.’s real gift wasn’t seeing a means to ascension and jumping on it?

How do we know?

For all we know there were other possible leaders who were truly of heroic character as well as integrity who lived and died in obscurity because MLK elbowed his way in.

All of this is speculative. It requires biographical and historical research before anything more could be said. But those questions immediately come to mind in response to the argument Lee Stiegal uses.

Every time we endorse flawed “heroes” we turn our backs on others and encourage people not to care about their own flaws.

[Addendum: This post by Doug Wilson led me to the article.]