re: #78 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I see nothing in American or Christian values that is at all consistent with the form of slavery that was practiced in the American South.

Robert E. Lee was clearly pro-slavery.

I admire him as a general and a gentleman, but do not find it proper to honor his cause by using his name for a public school or any other facility. I could say the same thing about Erwin Rommel. Nobody would think of naming a school after him.

Slavery was quintessential values of the USA. It was enshrined in the Constitution.

The Old Testament contains rules on who you can enslave, for how long, when you can beat them, how to trick a man into becoming your slave forever, his children are also your property, &c. The New Testament does not cancel any of that; Jesus did not come to abolish the Law, but to fulfill it.

My son has been keeping me abreast of the developments in this, as the renaming question has inflamed many of the alumni, and most are dragging either heritage or religious arguments into the hearings on why the name of a traitor should remain on a public high school.