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"Washington (AFP) - The dean of Washington
National Cathedral called Thursday for two
stained glass windows that depict the controver
sial Confederate flag to be replaced. Reverend
Gary Hall said the windows -- installed in 1953
and depicting Confederate generals Robert E.
Lee and Stonewall Jackson -- were no longer
appropriate. "It is time to take those windows
out," Hall said in a statement, eight days after a
young white supremacist murdered nine blacks
in an African-American church in Charleston,
South Carolina. "Here, in 2015, we know that
celebrating the lives of these two men, and the
flag under which they fought, promotes neither
healing nor reconciliation, especially for our
African-American sisters and brothers." The
final decision on replacing the windows rests
with the governing bodies of the towering
neo-Gothic Episcopal church that Congress has
designated as America's national house of
prayer. The June 17 massacre at Emanuel Afri
can Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston
rekindled criticism of the Confederate battle
flag on the lawn of the Southern state's legisla
ture. Calls for its removal have provoked a wid
er national debate about the Civil War-era salti-
re, which some embrace as an emblem of
Southern heritage but many others denounce as
a symbol of racism and hate. On Wednesday,
Alabama lowered the Confederate flag outside
its state house in Montgomery, while major re
tailers said they would no longer stock it. Hall
said the cathedral's Confederate-themed stained
glass windows were originally installed in
hopes of promoting "healing and reconcilia
tion" between North and South nearly a century
after the Civil War. But after the Charleston
killings, and the deaths of black men at the
hands of police in several US cities, "the Con
federate battle flag has emerged as the primary
symbol of a culture of white supremacy that we
and all Americans of good will must repudiate,"
he said."
(www.thebeerbarrel.net)
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