Robert E. Lee's Own Church Votes To Take His Name Off It

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo






By NICOLE LAFOND Published SEPTEMBER 20, 2017 1:42 PM

The Robert E. Lee Memorial Church in Lexington, Virginia — which the Confederate general attended — has voted to change its name, a move prompted by the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia last month and the massacre at a Charleston church in 2015.

After two years of debate among parishioners, the church’s governing body voted Sunday to change the name to Grace Episcopal Church, the Episcopal News Service reported.

It was a narrow victory — the vestry voted 7-5 — for members of the congregation who have been requesting a name change since a white supremacist killed nine black people at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston two years ago. The decision was backed by Bishop Mark Bourlakas of the Southwestern Virginia Diocese who said the debate has been a “costly process both spiritually, financially and emotionally” for the church.

The change at the parish, where Lee served as a senior warden, follows moves by municipalities, state and federal governing bodies across the U.S. to remove Confederate statues from their communities.

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[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Uh

[mahatmakanejeeves]

2. That window was until recently at the Washington National Cathedral.

Huge Cathedral with a lot to see

[FakeNoose]

3. I'm pretty sure Saint Robert E. Lee won't mind

[Judi Lynn]

4. Certainly not a moment too soon.

Image of Robert E Lee, as he drug home a chair he found over "to" the city dump, and there's hardly anything wrong with it. His wife will be so proud.



Still sits good, too. Wow!

[William the Drunkard]

5. Oooooh, that's gotta hurt!

[Yupster]

6. Lee's death

Lee was at a church leadership meeting where they were discussing a budget shortage. The meeting went on and on and got down to about a $ 25 gap. Eventually Lee just pledged the $ 25 himself and the meeting ended.

It was a rainy night and when Lee got home he plopped into a chair in the kitchen and told his wife he wasn't feeling well. She said she'd make tea. When she came back he had suffered a stroke and died a few hours or days (can't remember) later.