Posted on 06/30/2015 1:58:20 PM PDT by Ladysforest
The Hanover Evening Sun Local News
In the wake of several Gettysburg-area stores making announcements on if they'll continue to sell Confederate flag-related merchandise, the Lutheran Theological Seminary is making its stand.
Saturday, the day before a Living History event was slated to take place on the seminary's campus, the administration announced it would be banning symbols of hate speech and racism on seminary grounds, said the Rev. John Spangler, executive assistant to the president for communication and planning.
The ban prohibits the display of the flag or flags associated with the Confederate States of America, Spangler said.
"The subsequent use by other groups have made this impossible to maintain the symbol of what the flag stands for," he said.
The seminary still did host re-enactors from the American Living History Education Society Sunday, but without the Confederate flag, Spangler said. The re-enactment took place to depict scenes from the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg.
Many of the re-enactors did not know about the ban until getting there and most were not happy, Spangler said.
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“Yet they also weren’t offended enough to pack up and leave.”
I believe the Lutheran Seminary folks counted on blindsiding them. It is a good tactic as it makes the re-enactors look like racist brats if them leave on the spot, and hopefully softens them up for next year.
The re-enactors had already made commitments and the arrangements in their lives to book the time to participate. They were THERE, and to turn around and go home - who knows? Maybe the people that were in charge jollied them along, made them feel guilty and threw some shame their way. It must have been a terrific push back for the Seminary folks to even admit that the re-enactors were not happy.
There are some decent sized brand named chains on the outskirts, but nothing like DC can offer. Still, I’m betting that a pretty massive reunion could be pulled off there if a bit of careful planning was put in. Wouldn’t have to try and do it on a darn weekday as is always the case in DC, so that the elected officials know we are there. Like they ever gave a crap. Could plan a nice weekend in the Autumn for reasonable temps.
“Yep, because every one of those removals, and changes, comes with the message of taking away racists symbols, etc. Racists = White people and American history.”
Which indeed is the goal of the Left.
Leftists like Obama know exactly what their goal is.
Right now they are using the hate campaign against the Battle Flag and the South in general in order to recruit an army of what they will consider useful idiots, people who think this is some sort of grand moral crusade when in fact it is a war against the American people and American culture.
Only the ELCA. The other Lutheran bodies are not.
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