The Baltimore Sun has the story.
The Episcopal Cafe website also reports on it. It quotes the rector of the Maryland* church:
She..."said she wanted the church to get this chapter of its 325-year history behind it." and would not allow the ceremony that in part honors a Confederate sailor who is buried in the church graveyard.*Maryland remained in the Union, but was a slave holding state and was not included in the Emancipation Proclamation.
[Thanks to Jay, the official Maryland Correspondent for www.timlennox.com for sending this item!]
[UPDATE: The ban remains intact, but the church says it was given incorrect information about the SCV listing as a hate group with the SPLC in Montgomery. Jay points to this new story. Thanks Jay]
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My guess is that the real problem was the use of the Confederate flag in the wreath laying ceremony.
ReplyDeleteHere in beautiful Frederick MD, Mt Olivet Cemetery--just a mile from my house--contains the grave of Francis Scott Key, writer of our national anthem. Elsewhere in the cemetery, Confederate and Union soldiers' graves are side-by-side.