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Save the Lee Jackson Stained Glass Windows

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Carolyn Lee
11 years ago

Please stop this insanity!! The revisionist are ruining the truly great history of the South by all their bigotry. Surely, the cooler heads will see this for what it is ?

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lisa neely
11 years ago

Please honors all souls who come to this holy place

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Miranda Wrights
11 years ago

NOBODY has the right to change history

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Anonymous
11 years ago

Dear Sir, I respectfully ask that you do more research on the subject of the Civil War before you remove what you consider to be an "offensive" stained glass window in our beautiful church. Your "offense" sir, is based on a revisionist view of the war. Consider this: According to census records (facts) of that period, LESS than 5% of white southerners owned slaves. The other near 95% of the southern populace did not fight in the war between the states so that the less than 5% could keep their slaves. That makes no sense. The truth is that they fought due to 72 years of increasingly oppressive tariffs (close to 80% of the country's total take of taxes) imposed on them by the north. Every southerner paid those unfair taxes and they increasingly grew to resent it. President Lincoln used those taxes to build infrastructure in the north, particularly to the benefit of his RR executive buddies and himself. He sold a personal piece of his property in Iowa for the first RR station. Look up the history of the UP RR and President Lincoln. The south was Lincoln's cash cow and he didn't want to lose it. Lincoln wanted to control the south but couldn't find support for a war when succession was threatened. Why should the north care that the south was suffering from their oppressive tariffs? It was making them fat and happy. They liked how things were going for them, until Lincoln, a brilliant tactician, garnered support for the war by basing it on the issue of slavery. Now slavery existed in the north and south. Of the percentage of slavery in both, there were more free people of color in the south. (Census records) Less than 5% of total whites in the south owned slaves. Of the free peole of color in the south, 28% of them owned slaves, so statistics show that when blacks owned slaves they did so in greater percentages. Also consider that before the invasion, Confederate Generals who owned slaves freed them. Union Generals kept their slaves throughout the war and after. Only so

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Jean C Phelps
11 years ago

This would be a travesty if carried through

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Terrie Reed
11 years ago

Please leave the Lee Jackson Stained Glass Windows where they are. Don't erase history. We must remember our past for the bad as well as the good. It is the past.

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Marion M Johnson
11 years ago

Worry about something important Please leave windows alone

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Edwin H Lawson Jr
11 years ago

This country owes the unity and wars end to one man. General Robert E Lee,

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Mia Sclafani
11 years ago

History cannot be removed.

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Anonymous
11 years ago

These stained glass windows are memorials to the brave men who fought for the South and are now considered U. S. soldiers.

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Anonymous
11 years ago

I am an Episcopalian, and am very disturbed that prominent historical members of our church are now being attacked. For over 50 years I have been a member of Christ Church Cathedral in New Orleans where in my youth served as an acolyte. Every time I walk back from the altar after receiving the sacrament, I walk over the area in which Bishop Leonidas Polk is entombed. Query, since this great bishop of the Church was also a Confederate General in the War Between the States, will the Church also consider removing his remains?

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lois shofstahl
11 years ago

Shame on the dean. What he wants to do is destructive. Like Isis these black and liberal led organizations want to destroy history.

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Patrick Broderick
11 years ago

Save the windows! They represent a part of our Natonal History. And, both men were devout Christians.

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Desiree St. Paul
11 years ago

These are beautiful stained glass windows!!! Please keep them in place at the National Cathedral!!!

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Chuck Harvey
11 years ago

Next the stained glass at Petersburg in the Brandon Church will be destroyed by ignorance. Protect our history. Stop short sighted political correctness.

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Elizabeth Raviotta
11 years ago

Do NOT replace the Lee/Jackson Art! It was important Then , AND it is important NOW!

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Jerrye Barre
11 years ago

Where is wisdom in destroying history for the sake of pleasing one generation over another? What will you do when they deem the cross offensive or teachings of Jesus?Will you allow the church destroyed?

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Anonymous
11 years ago

Leave the stained glass windows alone, do not remove or replace them!

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mary caplinger
11 years ago

Unconscionable that such destruction is even contemplated.

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Nancy Ernst
11 years ago

This is part of our history. And taking everything down will not change it. This is getting way out of control with everyone becoming a bandwagon jumper!