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National Cathedral Will Remove Confederate Flags From Stained Glass Windows
npr.org ^
| June 9, 2016
| CAMILA DOMONOSKE
Posted on 06/09/2016 10:22:49 AM PDT by 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.
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TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: confederateflag; nationalcathederal; tyranny
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Just who allowed these "social justice warriors" to rewrite American history?
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posted on
06/09/2016 10:22:49 AM PDT
by
PROCON
To: PROCON
The black president, the racist, is getting in all his licks while he can.
The leader black cultural element are in fact American enemies
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posted on
06/09/2016 10:24:54 AM PDT
by
bert
((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;+12, 73, ....Opabinia can teach us a lot)
To: PROCON
And lets just burn the books that have that nasty little item too
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posted on
06/09/2016 10:25:15 AM PDT
by
Mr. K
(Trump will win NY state - choke on that HilLIARy)
To: PROCON
The Taliban dynamited huge Buddhist statues just before 9/11.
Willfully trying to erase history is what barbarians do.
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posted on
06/09/2016 10:26:05 AM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(Nation States seem to be ending. The follow-on should not be Globalism, but Localism.)
To: PROCON
While they’re at it, perhaps remove all white people, too?
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posted on
06/09/2016 10:26:20 AM PDT
by
fwdude
(If we keep insisting on the lesser of two evils, that is exactly what they will give us from now on.)
To: Mr. K
It will be a shame when other windows get rocks chunked to break them out
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posted on
06/09/2016 10:26:28 AM PDT
by
bert
((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;+12, 73, ....Opabinia can teach us a lot)
To: PROCON
Oh goody! they are spending money to replace perfectly good windows, to “raise awareness”
I just love it when ‘awareness’ is raised.
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posted on
06/09/2016 10:26:33 AM PDT
by
Mr. K
(Trump will win NY state - choke on that HilLIARy)
To: PROCON
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.
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posted on
06/09/2016 10:26:55 AM PDT
by
CivilWarBrewing
(Females DESTROYED America.)
To: PROCON
Dunno but they are inviting a response with Wrist-rockets and ball bearings.
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posted on
06/09/2016 10:28:18 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: CivilWarBrewing
[POLITICAL CORRECTNESS RUN AMOK]
They might as well raze the White House built by slaves.
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posted on
06/09/2016 10:29:24 AM PDT
by
stars & stripes forever
(Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. Psalm 33:12)
To: PROCON
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.
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posted on
06/09/2016 10:29:34 AM PDT
by
Dick Bachert
(This entire "administration" has been a series of Reischstag Fires. We know how that turned out!)
To: PROCON
Stupid is as stupid does.
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posted on
06/09/2016 10:30:26 AM PDT
by
choctaw man
(Good ole Andrew Jackson, or You're the Reason God Made Oklahoma...)
To: PROCON
Well we’ll just have to dissolve the NAU treaty that W signed because it was in Jackson Square.
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posted on
06/09/2016 10:30:50 AM PDT
by
rawcatslyentist
(Genesis 1:29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed,)
To: PROCON
“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
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posted on
06/09/2016 10:32:33 AM PDT
by
stormer
To: PROCON
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.
To: PROCON
They could call the project “Fahrenheit 451”
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posted on
06/09/2016 10:33:10 AM PDT
by
AppyPappy
(If you really want to irritate someone, point out something obvious they are trying hard to ignore.)
To: bert
The American Taliban strikes again, destroying images that offend them.
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posted on
06/09/2016 10:34:53 AM PDT
by
AppyPappy
(If you really want to irritate someone, point out something obvious they are trying hard to ignore.)
To: fwdude
Next is the American flag because having a great country built by Americans is racist. Excellence is racist.
To: PROCON
They can put up images of homosexual couples instead.
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posted on
06/09/2016 10:38:53 AM PDT
by
petitfour
(Americans need to repent.)
To: PROCON
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?
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posted on
06/09/2016 10:43:59 AM PDT
by
Darteaus94025
(Can't have a Liberal without a Lie)
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