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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The Seminary is bisected by a public road, Seminary Ridge Drive (used to be “Confederate Ave” until about 15 years ago) connecting US 30 and PA 116.
I encourage MD/PA freepers with loud dual exhaust pickup trucks to cruise that road while displaying an oversize stars & bars in the bed.
It’s insane to think that Confederate reenactors can’t carry the battle flag!
I used to think that aside from the lack of adequate hotel accommodations, Gettysburg would be a cool place to have a huge Tea Party reunion. *sigh*
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Great idea!
Any private property in the area with a big flag pole?
If so, put up the stars & bars there too.
So what is the new way in which we are supposed to learn about the Civil War and Civil War battlefields and events? Can Gettysburg itself even be a historical site because, to talk about it is to necessarily talk about the South, its army and prominent Confederates? Can we talk about any part of our history prior to the Civil War? If we talk about the Southern campaigns of the Revolutionary War, we are talking about a rebel army in which some of the generals and other soldiers held slaves. We need to completely ban discussions of the Mexican-American War. That expanded slavery and was imperialist aggression against a non-white country. Can we talk about medieval history? If we do, we would be talking about a Christian Church that, at the time, thought non-Christians were heretics who should be converted, sometimes by force. It also was a society that oppressed women by modern standards. When does history start? Even post-Civil War American history is filled with oppression of blacks — Jim Crow, segregation, etcetera. Even once you get past the 1960s, Libs tell us that Ronald Reagan oppressed blacks so can we talk about the evil 1980s? George Bush also filled his cabinet with “confederates” according to black politicians so can we talk about the 2000s and the second Bush Administration? Its all so confusing.
Clearly Communism can never work and yet as Vendome mentioned, it is still loved by the Left.
Gave me a lot of respect for the men who fought there — marching around in wool uniforms at 90% humidity and 90degF lugging 40 pound packs, some without shoes!
How bigoted of the Lutheran Seminary. Reenactments might be next.
we do not live in a free country away from Govt anymore.
The masses of the ignorant voted this idiot in , even when they knew not much about his background. The ignorant turned even more dumber voting him in again and now they will see what we will see in the years to come when their rights are striped away, or they are mocked and pressured to do what the Govt what’s them too.
I think you may see that the way we learn about the Civil War will change, er, evolve.
Our history is under attack in many ways and on many levels. For example, at Mount Vernon, the home of George Washington, the tone is being shifted to one of “here lived a SLAVE OWNER”, instead of, “here lived George Washington, founder of our great country, who like many prominent men of the period, owned slaves.” The difference between two years ago and a few months ago when I last visited, is considerable. Far worse at Jefferson’s Monticello. It just makes you wince.
If the re-enacters want to do the right thing, they will not show. That will bring financial and probably social pressure on the NPS and all the venues who want to deny history at the altar of political correctness.
As an ex-ELCA lute, I expect that sometime soon, the word “Lutheran” in the ELCA will be determined to be bigoted, and removed, since Luther would have abhorred homosexuality.
You can’t be speaking of the AUTHENTIC Lutheran Church —Missouri Synod. The LCA and ELCA are even in debate as to whether or not they should remove the name Lutheran from their name. No way would Mo. synod ever approve of gay marriage.
I HOPE that amongst their organizations such a conversation is taking place.
Next year the southern forces will be fighting under the RAINBOW FLAG but they will not be called Confederates. They will be called “dissatisfied white trash”.
There I PCed it.
Yep. Every one of these *historic* sites, that are removing/erasing history, should be called just that....anti-historic.
BWAHAHAHa. But you may have something there.
I do have to wonder, if re-enactors carry the Confederate flag at other places in Gettysburg, will they have to turn them in to a mod at the end of the day, so the flags can be locked up? Only allowed to be flown and shown with prior written approval from a mod, otherwise a re-enactor will face fines and expulsion. Hummmmm.
After 150 years, the Lutherans suddenly get religion, of the revisionist kind. It kind of makes me doubt their sincerity.
There was a flurry of new hotel construction both in Gettysburg and nearby Hanover prior the sesquicentennial of the battle.
“Most (of the reenactors) were not happy.”
Yet they also weren’t offended enough to pack up and leave.
No one should support the display of the ANoVA flag in a hateful and racist manner. Doing so desecrates a symbol to many of their heritage, the honorable service and conduct of their ancestors, etc.
But demanding removal of it from display in a historically appropritate and relevant context, such as a living history event or reenactment, is as about as close to Maoism as I’ve seen in this country.
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