Jesus famously said that no prophet is accepted in his hometown.
It turns out the Father of Our Country isn’t accepted in his home church.
Christ Church in Alexandria, Virginia, stepped into the larger debate over statues and history this week when it decided to remove plaques of President George Washington and Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee because they might make attendees feel “unsafe or unwelcome.”
But a cursory glance at history shows the foolishness of treating Washington this way.
During the Civil War, when Americans were killing each other by the hundreds of thousands, Washington’s estate at Mount Vernon was used as neutral ground by both sides to treat their wounded.
Washington’s appeal was universal even as the country was falling apart.
It may be a sign of the times that the most singularly unifying individual in our nation’s history is now considered an unwelcoming figure at the historic church he attended for much of his life. -- More...
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