The Cathedral and the Confederacy
MARINA KOREN 2:56 PM ET
Last June .. a 21-year-old white gunman, entered a church in Charleston, South Carolina, declared he was there “to shoot black people,” and ... catalyzed a bipartisan movement to erase the symbol from public display. The Confederate flag was removed from South Carolina’s statehouse ... Walmart, Amazon, and other big-name retailers stopped selling any merchandise bearing the symbol. Last month, the Republican-controlled House passed legislation that would ban the flag from some military cemeteries.
This week, the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., one of the country’s most prominent churches, followed suit, voting unanimously to remove the two images of the Confederate battle flag from its windows ...
The glass windows were installed in 1953 to commemorate Confederate Army Generals Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson and Robert E. Lee. The cathedral announced it will hold public forums next month to discuss “issues of racism, slavery, and racial reconciliation as part of the next phase of considering the future of stained-glass windows” that pay tribute to the pair of Confederate leaders ...
http://www.theatlantic.com/news/archive/2016/06/national-cathedral-confederate-flag/486431/
