The city still wouldn’t budge. “What they are after is the destruction of our social fabric,” said the mayor, Tacky Gayle. When Gayle called on a white pastor to speak, the pastor lectured King, saying ministers should abstain from political acts. King became angry. “I can see no conflict between our devotion to Jesus Christ and our present action,” he responded. “In fact I see a necessary relationship. If one is truly devoted to the religion of Jesus he will seek to rid the Earth of social evils. The Gospel is social as well as personal.”
