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A student play depicting Jesus Christ as the “King of the Queers” will be performed tomorrow morning at Tarleton State University in Stephenville, Texas and the citizens of the small mostly Christian town steeped in cowboy culture are none too pleased about the situation.

A planned play at Tarleton State University that portrays a gay Jesus has raised emotions in Stephenville to the point where a Christian radio show was jammed with protest calls and some student actors have been pressured to quit. < snip >Responding to the outcry, Tarleton President F. Dominic Dottavio released a letter March 11 to the campus community, stating that he would allow the play to be performed because Tarleton "is committed to protecting and preserving the freedoms of thought, speech and expression." Read more: http://www.star-telegram.com/2010/03/22/2059143/in-stephenville-college-play-featuring.html#storylink=omni_popular#ixzz0j20WVeiB

The regimental flag of the Continental Army 2nd Light Dragoons, also known as Sheldon's Horse, was captured by British cavalry led by Banestre Tarleton in the 1779 Battle of Pound Ridge. (December 21, 2007) WILLIAMSBURG - Four rare American battle flags captured by the British during the Revolutionary War will get their first extended public homecoming Saturday in a new exhibit at The Museums of Colonial Williamsburg. Taken as trophies more than 225 years ago, the unusually well-preserved banners remained in the family of notorious British cavalry leader Banestre Tarleton until being sold at auction to a private owner last...

Anonymous bidder snaps up flag belonging to a Connecticut regiment and three others for total of $17 million. An American Revolutionary War flag fetched $12.3 million at an auction in New York on Wednesday, and a group of three other flags went for more than $5 million to the same bidder, Sotheby's said. The total price of $17,392,000 was well over the pre-sale estimate of $4 million to $10 million for the two lots of battle flags captured by the British during the 1775-83 war,...

The British captured this battle flag made of gold silk from a Virginia regiment. According to Sotheby’s, it’s the earliest surviving documented American flag bearing 13 stars. It has a painted emblem of a beaver and the motto “Perseverando.” The image was copied from the engraving on the $6 Continental bill that Benjamin Franklin had chosen. ROY A. BAHLS/THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT Amid the crack of musket fire, smoke and confusion on the field, three battle flags fluttered above the exhausted 3rd Virginia Detachment in South Carolina on May 29, 1780. Col. Abraham Buford and his Continental soldiers had set out...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - The heirs of the British general known for brutal attacks in South Carolina during the Revolutionary War are auctioning flags won in key battles. South Carolina is mounting an effort to bring home flags British Lt. Col. Banastre Tarleton took from a bloody battlefield five miles south of the state line in South Carolina. It's a place that some say became an emotional turning point that fixed American hearts against the British enemy. Accounts of what happened on May 29, 1780, vary, but the commonly held view is that American Col. Abraham Buford thought his 350 Virginia...

On Jan. 17, 1781, Patriot skirmishers waited quietly in the woods. Lt. Col. Banastre Tarleton and the redcoats moved forward toward Brig. Gen. Daniel Morgan's men. Tarleton didn't see the skirmishers ahead, awaiting his advance. By the time the British colonel realized he was in the company of rebels, his men were under fire. Tarleton immediately retaliated. The infamous Battle of Cowpens occurred 225 years ago, and nearly 5,000 people, came to Cowpens National Battlefield on Saturday to celebrate its anniversary. Many stood in line to be transported to the very site where the re-enactment of the British defeat would...

Nicole Bengiveno/The New York Times At Sotheby's on Tuesday, Terry McAllister, left, and James Parker moved the Connecticut regimental battle flag. Sotheby'sOne of the Virginia infantry flags believed to have been captured by a British commander, Lt. Col. Banastre Tarleton, in a bloody battle in the Carolinas in May 1780. The war veterans who once revered them and followed them - and then lost them - are all long gone. But now, their battle standards, taken by the enemy, have at last returned to American soil after two and a quarter centuries. The flags are believed to date from...

Four rare battle flags captured during the American War of Independence by a British officer have been returned after more than two centuries to be auctioned. The regimental colours seized in 1779 and 1780 by Lt Col Banastre Tarleton, who remains one of the conflict's most controversial figures, have already aroused huge interest among American military historians. They are expected to fetch between £2.3 million and £5.8 million at Sotheby's in New York next year. Until recently the flags had hung in the Hampshire home of Capt Christopher Tarleton Fagan, the great-great-great-great nephew of the lieutenant colonel. Capt Tarleton Fagan,...

Four rare battle flags captured during the American War of Independence by a British officer have been returned after more than two centuries to be auctioned.

I was born to be a soldier. Not that I was particularly brave or even destined for a distinguished military career, but I think there is something inherent in most Southern boys that predisposes them to the profession of arms. I simply got a bigger dose of it than most.