(June 10, 2020 at 9:33 am)brokenreflector Wrote:(June 10, 2020 at 9:27 am)Cecelia Wrote: Let's dispel the notion that these statues are ANYTHING but to serve as a memorial to honor traitors who fought against the United States Government in order to preserve the institution of slavery.
We have no good reason to dispel that notion.
Quote:I'm totally sure you thought the statue of Saddam Hussein should stay up in Iraq, to you know... serve as a reminder of history.
I'd rather they stay up for the same reason I gave earlier.
I'm not an emotional person so statues don't bother me. Maybe that's part of the problem.
Actually, you seem rather bothered by your emotional connection to a statue. Maybe that's part of the problem.
The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to woman is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading. - Elizabeth Cady Stanton