The American Civil War is long over. As a Yankee I've thought it a just war to preserve the Union and free those who were unjustly enslaved.
See, here's part of the problem. We all state and acknowledge that the Civil War is long over but the sad fact is that it isn't. Consider your words "As a Yankee". Why do you consider yourself a Yankee? Why not just an American? And I think the same thing every time I hear a black person state they are African American. No they're not. They're Americans....period. This is what I meant by my earlier post about not being sure that the black community is interested in "full equality."
Obviously it is viewed differently by many in the South?
Yes, depending on their politic and region. Consider Texas which continues to call itself a Republic. Many Southerners still consider themselves Confederates based upon a particular code of living indigenous to the South right down to the way one dresses their grits. And they aren't "yahoos!"
I owe allegiance to only one flag. And that flag is a symbol of The United States of America.
Agreed. But many Southerners see the ability to display the Confederate flag as their Constitutional right in deference to the Southern code of living. To them, it is every bit an act of free expression/free speech and an honoring of ancestry in the preservation of states rights.
The battles are over and the folks who fought and died were laid to rest.
No, Bybee, they merely lost the battle. Their politic and way of life is still very much alive.
To disturb their bones is a contemptible desecration.
Agreed along with headstones and cemeteries.
I am not into aggravating other peoples sensibilities. The Confederate flag means nothing to me. It neither aggravates nor inspires me. It is not worth a brouhaha.
It's not about aggravating peoples sensibilities, Bybee. It's about an agenda being served and it has nothing to do with equality.
But Liberals like to fasten on trivialities and make them major issues whilst ignoring things wherein their efforts might make a difference for the good?
Now you're getting closer to the agenda and yes, Liberals are at the forefront of it. States rights is no triviality, however, or the Framers of the Constitution wouldn't have gone to such lengths to preserve state sovereignty. “Resolved, that the several States composing the United States of America, are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their general government; but that by compact under the style and title of a Constitution for the United States and of amendments thereto, they constituted a general government for special purposes, delegated to that government certain definite powers, reserving each State to itself, the residuary mass of right to their own self-government; and that whensoever the general government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force: That to this compact each State acceded as a State, and is an integral party, its co-States forming, as to itself, the other party....each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions as of the mode and measure of redress." Thomas Jefferson
So when Town Heretic implied that secession was illegal, he was full of hooey! That's why I suggested he revise his political stance to the left.
I read where some members of Congress wish to make the words "Man and wife" illegal? They wish the words "Spouse and Spouse" to be used instead.
Talk about jousting at windmills....
No, they're not jousting. They're attacking God's Plan and God's Headship, America under God, states rights under the Constitution and individual rights under same. THAT is the agenda and precisely why I state one can not be a Christian and a Democrat! Of course, a Democrat today is nothing like the Democrats of Civil War days; a sad commentary on just how twisted our nation has become. Since I'm living today in this twisted nation, I'll stand by my statement.
