I agree with your preamble. But, you have to keep an eye on brother Moore, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention. Even though the SBC passed non-binding resolutions at its annual meeting this week proclaiming that marriage is 1 man and 1 woman, brother Moore is squishy on that matter and seems to be in favor of amnesty for illegal aliens. There is a movement for racial reconciliation within Moore's inner circle and, to a point, that is good.
As an American whose parents came from Maine and Alabama, I am tired of celebrating the "Lost Cause". The CW was an immense tragedy leaving 700,000 soldiers dead over 4 years of fighting. We have just observed the 150th anniversary of the end of the CW. Learn the lessons. For me, I think Union Gen. W.T. Serman said it best ...
"You people of the South don't know what you are doing. This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows how it will end. It is all folly, madness, a crime against civilization! You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about. War is a terrible thing! You mistake, too, the people of the North. They are a peaceable people but an earnest people, and they will fight, too. They are not going to let this country be destroyed without a mighty effort to save it … Besides, where are your men and appliances of war to contend against them? The North can make a steam engine, locomotive, or railway car; hardly a yard of cloth or pair of shoes can you make. You are rushing into war with one of the most powerful, ingeniously mechanical, and determined people on Earth — right at your doors. You are bound to fail. Only in your spirit and determination are you prepared for war. In all else you are totally unprepared, with a bad cause to start with. At first you will make headway, but as your limited resources begin to fail, shut out from the markets of Europe as you will be, your cause will begin to wane. If your people will but stop and think, they must see in the end that you will surely fail." Comments to Prof. David F. Boyd at the Louisiana State Seminary (24 December 1860); quoted in The Civil War: A Narrative (1986) by Shelby Foote, p. 58; also in The Civil War : A Book of Quotations (2004) by Robert Blaisdell
Let us leave the divisiveness behind us, and that includes the confederate battle flag. We have a bigger, and more deadly enemy in front of us, POTUS #44 BHO and the Democrat Party. A better symbol of resistance and freedom is the Gadsden flag.
