A new round of debate over monuments honoring Confederate soldiers has been ignited by a controversial court order in Kentucky.
Ruling against Louisville Mayor Greg Fisher and the city government, Jefferson County Circuit judge Judith McDonald-Burke issued an injunction blocking any attempts to remove a Confederate memorial not too far from the University of Louisville.
The restraining order was filed by a number of persons and organizations, not least of which were Republican congressional candidate Everett Corley, political activist Ed Springston, the Sons of Confederate Veterans, and Kentucky Division.
Echoing the concerns of many Southerners, the plaintiffs argue that removing the memorial and others like it will do nothing to make up for the past wrongs they supposedly represent and disrespect the men they are meant to honor.
But Mayor Fisher and his allies are not willing to let this go on. Instead, they intend to appeal the matter further, in the hope that a more sympathetic judge will not let them go ahead with their plan to move the memorial elsewhere.
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Any and all attacks on US history need to be halted!
This is the history of our country and all who fought for whatever they believed in should not be hidden away
Leave our history alone
No matter how you feel about it…Good or Bad…This is a part of our American history and should NOT be tampered with!!!!!
Well said Jake Devenney!! 🙂
Stop this stupidity
It’s really sad to say but most of our history has been built on lies, these men in no matter what period of time left their families to fight a war that they shouldn’t have ever been in, all wars were made to deceive and what they did and still doing with our troops is wrong
YAY!! A judge getting it right, for a change!!
But what if the majority of it was made in false pretenses?
War we shouldn’t have been in what about Vietnam what about Korea what about Iraq Afghanistan should we have been in any of these wars