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Gen. Robert E. Lee descendant leaves pulpit after backlash
CNN ^ | September 5, 2017 | Eliott C. McLaughlin

Posted on 09/05/2017 4:28:13 PM PDT by PAR35

A descendant of Gen. Robert E. Lee has stepped down as pastor of his North Carolina church after facing blowback from parishioners and others for his comments denouncing racism and lauding the Black Lives Matter movement. As a minister and newspaper columnist, Robert W. Lee IV, the fourth great-nephew of the Confederate general, has spoken and written countless words, but the five sentences he uttered during MTV's Video Music Awards last week were just too much for some members of his congregation.

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Lee, who was pastor at Bethany United Church of Christ in Winston-Salem, has long supported removing monuments to the Confederacy and had already drawn attention for his lineage and for his stand against white supremacy prior to his MTV appearance. ...

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: blacklivesmatter; blm; confederate; dixie; genealogy; lee; mtv; northcarolina; pastors; purge; robertelee; ucc
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Pastor Lee's statements to the MTV crowd appear to have been too much for even the ultra-liberal, militantly pro-homosexual UCC.
1 posted on 09/05/2017 4:28:14 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: PAR35

Good riddance. By the way, I wouldn’t call a nephew a descendant.


2 posted on 09/05/2017 4:31:55 PM PDT by Genoa (Luke 12:2)
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To: PAR35

For some reason cucks think there will be no blowback for appeasing the leftists like a whipped, eunuch. I guess virtue signaling used to have no downside but the Deplorables are pissed now.


3 posted on 09/05/2017 4:32:31 PM PDT by WMarshal (President Trump, a president keeping his promises to the American people. It feels like winning.)
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To: PAR35; Bender2

Well Bend you can’t pick your relatives but you can pick your ass.


4 posted on 09/05/2017 4:32:41 PM PDT by big'ol_freeper (Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth. - George Washington)
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To: PAR35

Maybe the Unitarians have an opening.


5 posted on 09/05/2017 4:38:28 PM PDT by madprof98
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To: big'ol_freeper

Eeeeewwww!


6 posted on 09/05/2017 4:42:27 PM PDT by sauropod (I am His and He is Mine)
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To: PAR35

The UCC is as liberal as they come and they did THAT to him?

Interesting.


7 posted on 09/05/2017 4:42:34 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: PAR35

The little bastard got his 15 minutes of fame, which is what he wanted all along. Read his statement. Narcissistic and full of half truths and lies.

8 posted on 09/05/2017 4:43:05 PM PDT by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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The fact that Pastor Lee is rumored to have quoted from
“Harry Potter” Novels in his Church orations may be sufficient reason to remove him from that role.


9 posted on 09/05/2017 4:45:25 PM PDT by lee martell
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The UCC is a Yankee church. What’s it doing in North Carolina? Musta been carpetbaggers.


10 posted on 09/05/2017 4:53:06 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: PAR35

This is a good example of being brainwashed out of your heritage.


11 posted on 09/05/2017 4:53:13 PM PDT by iontheball
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“Gen. Robert E. Lee descendant leaves pulpit after backlash”

Next step: change your name. It will be good for you; and good for the Lee family.


12 posted on 09/05/2017 4:59:09 PM PDT by jeffersondem
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To: WMarshal

He learned the hard way....degrading yourself into becoming a whipped, eunuch still gets you leftist blowback for appeasing that crowd.


13 posted on 09/05/2017 4:59:57 PM PDT by Liz (Four boxes to defend liberty: soap, ballot, jury and ammo; used in that order.)
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To: jeffersondem

He would rather be one of the “kool kids” any way!
The name will just hold him back.


14 posted on 09/05/2017 5:05:08 PM PDT by Reily
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“We have made my ancestor an idol of white supremacy, racism and hate.”

We? In your freakin imagination only. Maybe a DNA check is in order.


15 posted on 09/05/2017 5:05:43 PM PDT by odawg
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To: PAR35
At the most basic level, foundationally beneath the silly snowflakeness and the various and infinite complaints about whites by whites, lies a shame hypnotized into them not so much that they are bad for being white, but bad for being men.

At the foundation of all of this is the attempted ongoing feminization of the species.

It will end, as all unnatural things end - man can only for a period resist what's natural in the universe, simply because the universe is the one thing that can be relied upon to stand against anything, since it is everything.

But when it ends, it might not end well for everyone or even anyone.

The universe doesn't need the species.

The species would do well to remember that.

But Pride is the most subtle sin. 'Sin' originally means merely 'To miss the mark.'

16 posted on 09/05/2017 5:06:18 PM PDT by tinyowl (A is A)
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United Church of fruitcake Christians


17 posted on 09/05/2017 5:07:07 PM PDT by wardaddy (Virtue signalers should be shot on sight...conservative ones racked and hanged then fed to dogs)
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To: SkyPilot; Pelham; Mr. Mojo; Travis McGee

Little bitch

Lord young men are so female dominated and faggoty

Can a young gal get a proper ride from a white boy these days?

Just wondering


18 posted on 09/05/2017 5:08:39 PM PDT by wardaddy (Virtue signalers should be shot on sight...conservative ones racked and hanged then fed to dogs)
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To: PAR35

So Robert E. Lee is a distant relative. How does that make his opinion matter? Did he and his distant relative have discussions on the matter?

Moron.


19 posted on 09/05/2017 5:09:05 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hhate dogs. Add that up.)
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Bet he takes pains to point out that “IV” and always signs his name that way, regardless. A slut for notoriety. Not a trace of Robert E. Lee in him.


20 posted on 09/05/2017 5:11:18 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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