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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Good move. History is history!
they fought for what they thought was right. They have a right to honor their dead
IF THESE MONUMENTS COME DOWN THEN ALL MONUMENTS THAT HONOR THE MEN AND WOMEN WHO SERVED NEED TO COME DOWN TO
Exactly what I was going to say you can’t erase history by destroying this that confirm history
THE CIVIL WAR IS AMERICAN HISTORY…We must preserve lest we repeat,,,,,
Good, you can’t please everybody, a lot of people lost family in this war that did not own nor were they fighting over slavery
It is sad that a party that represented the common middle class has sunken so low and has been hijacked by a lot of far left liberals.who frankly have no common sense whatsoever I
Thank you Judge
This is our history. You can’t change what happened just learn from our mistakes
Leave it alone.