Battle over Confederate flag hits highways

Americans can be shocking arrogant sometimes, with a pig headedness that defies reason.

And perhaps that's the point..

Chip Witte doesn't consider himself a Rebel. He doesn't hang Dixie battle flags in his living room, nor does he wear one on the back of his leather jacket.

Yet when the Tampa motorcycle mechanic saw the world's largest Confederate battle flag unfurl above the intersection of I-10 and I-4 in June, he felt a jolt of solidarity with the lost cause and lost rights that he says the battle flag represents. "I think it's great that they're allowed to fly it," says Mr. Witte...

...They say the "soldier's flag" represents not slavery, but the valor of Southern men in their lost cause.

And the Nazi flag doesn't represent the Holocaust, but the valor of the German men in their lost cause...

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Bigots in California

The ugly spitefulness of people what would do this astounds me...I am thankful I live in a civilized country.

"California Secretary of State Debra Bowen says a random check of signatures submitted by the measure's sponsors showed that they had gathered enough for it to be put to voters. The measure would amend the state constitution to define marriage as a union 'between a man and a woman.' If it is approved by a majority of voters on Nov. 4, it would overturn the recent California Supreme Court ruling that legalized same-sex marriage in the state."