“The plaques in our sanctuary make some in our presence feel unsafe or unwelcome,” church leaders said. “Some visitors and guests who worship with us choose not to return because they receive an unintended message from the prominent presence of the plaques.”
“Unsafe”????
Who? And what in the hell is the matter with the church leaders that they cannot articulate the many reasons why someone would feel unsafe has to do the stupidity of the persons expressing such feelings, not anything to with the statue of the man that led this country to independence from Britain.
These memorials will have to be effaced:
Among the burials in the churchyard is the mass grave of thirty-four Confederate prisoners of war who died in local hospitals during the Civil War. A memorial stone in the churchyard commemorates their deaths. Also buried in the church are Charles Simms and Philip Marstellar, two of George Washington’s pallbearers...