To the editor:
I am proud to call Lee Bright my state senator. He understands that the real issue in our country is defiance to the word of God by calling homosexual relationships marriage and the slaughter of the unborn.
What would you do if an invading army entered your community looting, burning and killing? Would you take up arms and defend your property? That is exactly what my ancestor did when Virginia was invaded.
We can find good and evil associated with cherished symbols; I see the cross as a Christian symbol. Didn’t the KKK use the Cross as one of their symbols? Some see the Confederate Flag as a symbol of resistance to tyranny.
— Carol Sue Martin, Spartanburg, S.C.
Hurrah for Jenny Horne
To the editor:
Interestingly, I had always heard the upstate of S.C. was considered the “Bible Belt.” The representatives from that area obviously don’t believe in “love your fellow man as yourself” as they don’t seem to be able to see what the African Americans have had endure under the Confederate flag.
Hurrah for [state Rep.] Jenny Horne! She expressed the frustration what many of us white South Carolinians descended from slave owners felt about the flag flying on the Statehouse grounds. We are able, unlike those representatives who voted to keep the flag flying, to feel the pain our African American sisters and brothers have felt living under what has become a symbol of hate.
I am afraid if the murder of nine people didn’t change them, nothing will and more time will be wasted in the Statehouse arguing about this issue instead of moving South Carolina forward. They continue to deny their motives are racial but as the old saying goes, “If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck.”
— Katharine D. Beard, Camden, S.C.
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