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WASHINGTON, DC: National Cathedral Dean wants Confederate glass removed

WASHINGTON, DC: National Cathedral Dean wants Confederate glass removed

By WUSA 9 Staff,
June 25, 2015

The dean of the Washington National Cathedral wants a stained glass window displaying the confederate flag and honoring the lives of two Confederate generals removed from the cathedral.

In a statement, dean Rev. Gary Hall said the stained glass windows were installed in 1953 as a way to foster togetherness between parts of the nation that had been divided by the civil war.

However, Hall now believes the time has come to remove the windows.

"Here, in 2015, we know that celebrating the lives of these two men, and the flag under which they fought, promotes neither healing nor reconciliation, especially for our African-American sisters and brothers," Hall said in a statement.

The window shows generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson at a camp with the Confederate flag flying in the background.

"While the impetus behind the windows' installation was a good and noble one at the time, the Cathedral has changed, and so has the America it seeks to represent. There is no place for the Confederate battle flag in the iconography of the nation's most visible faith community," Hall said.

Hall joins the chorus of people who have called for the Confederate flag to be removed from public places and other forms of display in the wake of the fatal Charleston shooting.

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