President Obama has presided at the dedication of a national memorial to Martin Luther King, placing him in company with George Washington and other presidents. This is surely a dangerous development.

Reverend King, after all, was a man who led people in demonstrations against the established political and social order. He improperly used the pulpit to preach the false idea that the word of Jesus has something to do with our public lives.  He was what my friends in the riot police used to call a 'disturber".