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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Leave our monuments and memorials alone. That is our American history. It is important.
The war between the states is part of our history. I am from the north & i am saying do not distroy our history. Its over let it rest.
Leave our historical sites alone!!!
Common Sense rules! What a novelty!
This memorial is part of AMERICAS history. Like it or not no one has the right to alter OUR history. This smells like a 1st AMENDMENT issue. The libs.
Good
About time that’s our history
THE ONLY PERSON ON ANY LEVEL OF GOVERNMENT THAT HAS THE BALLS TO STOP THE REMOVAL OF A HISTORICAL LANDMARK THE CONFEDERATE MEMORIAL. IF IT AFFENDS ANYONE TELL THEM TO LEAVE THIS COUNTY
GOOD TIME TO STOP THIS BS ATTACK ON OUR AMERICAN HISTORY FOLKS
Good for him !!!!!!!!!