National Cathedral Will Remove Confederate Flags From Stained Glass Windows

npr.org ^ | June 9, 2016 | CAMILA DOMONOSKE

[PROCON]

The Washington National Cathedral says it will remove two images of the Confederate battle flag from the building's stained glass windows. Then the church will hold a period of public discussion on issues of race, slavery and justice, and revisit the question of how to treat other depictions of the Civil War on the windows.

The windows in question memorialize Confederate Gens. Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson; they were installed in 1953 after lobbying by the United Daughters of the Confederacy. They feature images from the lives of the two generals, and include two Confederate battle flags.

A five-person task force that examined the windows' symbolic power said the flags cannot remain on the cathedral as they have thus far in the building's history. But instead of quietly taking down the windows, the task force recommended replacing just the flags — then using the windows as a starting point for a series of conversations.

[PROCON]

Just who allowed these "social justice warriors" to rewrite American history?

[bert]

The black president, the racist, is getting in all his licks while he can.

The leader black cultural element are in fact American enemies

[Mr. K]

And lets just burn the books that have that nasty little item too

[ClearCase_guy]

The Taliban dynamited huge Buddhist statues just before 9/11.

Willfully trying to erase history is what barbarians do.

[fwdude]

While they’re at it, perhaps remove all white people, too?

[bert]

It will be a shame when other windows get rocks chunked to break them out

[Mr. K]

Oh goody! they are spending money to replace perfectly good windows, to “raise awareness”

I just love it when ‘awareness’ is raised.

[CivilWarBrewing]

When does the American flag get removed? Won't be long.. ISIS would be proud since they demolish historic symbols too.

POLITICAL CORRECTNESS RUN AMOK. TRUMP IS RIGHT.

[BenLurkin]

Dunno but they are inviting a response with Wrist-rockets and ball bearings.

[stars & stripes forever]

[POLITICAL CORRECTNESS RUN AMOK]

They might as well raze the White House built by slaves.

[Dick Bachert]

The National “Cathedral” has been performing homosexual “marriages” for some time now. And they are OFFENDED by the Stars and Bars? We're doomed. That said, they DID retrofit the building with the mechanism you see here. How awful it would be if the thing was pulled DURING one of those “ceremonies”.

[choctaw man]

Stupid is as stupid does.

[rawcatslyentist]

Well we’ll just have to dissolve the NAU treaty that W signed because it was in Jackson Square.

[stormer]

“I think it wiser, moreover, not to keep open the sores of war, but to follow the example of those nations who endeavored to obliterate the marks of civil strife, and to commit to oblivion the feelings it engendered.” R. E. Lee

[Gen.Blather]

At various times, famous art from previous centuries was deemed immoral and defaced or destroyed. We are going through another period that is the twenty-first century’s version of Cromwell.

[AppyPappy]

They could call the project “Fahrenheit 451”

[AppyPappy]

The American Taliban strikes again, destroying images that offend them.

[jsanders2001]

Next is the American flag because having a great country built by Americans is racist. Excellence is racist.

[petitfour]

They can put up images of homosexual couples instead.

[Darteaus94025]

The American Taliban moves again to remove historical symbols it doesn’t like.l!

When will they remove all traces of FDR for his property confiscation and forced internment of people with Japanese ancestery?