Edward Sebesta and James Loewen have drafted a letter to President Obama, asking him not to have a wreath laid at the Arlington Confererate Monument on Memorial Day. Among the reasons they cite is the monument’s ties to the religious glorification of the South:
[Fr. Alister C.] Anderson believes that the Civil War was a holy war between an orthodox Christian nation (the South), a view widespread in the neo-Confederate movement, and what he feels was an un-Christian and heretical North, as he explained in a series of articles in the Confederate Veteran as Chaplain-in-Chief of the SCV. This explains some of the passages of his speech at the Arlington Confederate Monument.
Among the signatories of this letter are Bill Ayers, Kenneth T. Jackson, and Ira Katzenelson. Read the full letter here.
[via: Religion in American History]