re: Judge rules against opponents of removing Confederate memorials ...

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Kentucky allowed the removal of the Jefferson Davis statue correct?

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Not yet but the process is under way. Plans are to move the statue to a museum about Kentucky's participation in the war. It certainly doesn't belong in the Capital Rotunda in Frankfort.

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And all Confederate memorials are under attack, all across the South.

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They have their place in museums but not in public places. The sentiments of these memorials to a traitorous rebellion are anti-American.

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I mean it's not like all the Muslim statues going up, silently across the country ... it's not like this is anything comparable to what ISIS is doing to the history of Syria right now, is it? Tearing down old Christian monuments because, well, they don't like them ... they find them offensive to Allah and all.

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I don't know anyone who objects to Christian, or Muslim for that matter, monuments on private property. It's the intrusion of religion, any religion, into government that is illegal and to be resisted with all vigor.

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You cannot white wash a history of a region, or a country, just because you find certain past aspects of it offensive.

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Putting the Confederacy's history into museums is not eliminating it, nor rewriting it. That's the proper place for it. In public places, however, a message exists of support for the ideas of the losing side, who were anti-American.

Confederate cemeteries are, for the most part, on private land beyond the legal reach of anyone who might have objections to them, which would be silly IMO.

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But people in this region should still be allowed to retain some semblance of their culture and tradition, retain their honor.

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They certainly can with appropriate venues. Public places are not appropriate.

Lexington is planning to move all of our Confederate monuments to a museum. They'll make an interesting field trip for kids studying Kentucky and American history.