SCV NATIONAL RESOLUTION ON THE CONFEDERATE BATTLE FLAG

(ATLANTA - July 1, 2015)    In 2010, the annual national Reunion of the Sons of Confederate Veterans passed the below resolution regarding the imagery and use of the Confederate Battle Flag.  In today's political climate, the re-publishing of that resolution is timely.  It reads as follows...  

  

 

WHEREAS, the approach of the Sesquicentennial will be

a time to educate not only the people of these United States
but of the world; and

WHEREAS, the most recognized symbol of the Confederate States
is the Battle Flag, a flag each of us hold dear; and

WHEREAS, the use of the Confederate Battle Flag by
extremist political groups and individuals who seek to
clothe themselves in respectability by misappropriating the

banner under which our southern ancestors fought for a Just Cause
which is as noble as much latter day is ignoble; and

WHEREAS, the Sons of Confederate Veterans are the true inheritors
of legacy and symbols for which the Confederate Veterans fought
and died; and

WHEREAS, the Sons of Confederate Veterans does denounce
the use of the Confederate Battle Flag and any other Confederate
symbol by any hate group and/or the Ku Klux Klan as the desecration
of a symbol to which any hate group and/or the Ku Klux Klan has no claim; and

WHEREAS, the misuse of the Confederate Battle Flag by any
extremist group or individual espousing political extremism
and/or racial superiority degrades the Confederate Battle Flag
and maligns the noble purpose of our ancestors who fought

against extreme odds for what they knew was just, right, and constitutional; and

WHEREAS, the misuse of other flags and symbols of the
Confederate States of America and the Confederate States Army,
Navy, and Marines is similarly degrading,

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Sons of Confederate
Veterans in General Convention assembled in Anderson, South Carolina,
does hereby condemn in the strongest terms possible the use of the
Confederate Battle Flag or any other flag, symbol, seal, title or name
bearing any relationship whatsoever to the Confederate

States of America or the armed forces of that Government by any such
extremist group or individual, of whatever name or designation by which
known, and

LET IT BE FUTHER RESOVLED, that the Sons of Confederate Veterans
in General Convention assembled, does hereby condemn in the strongest
terms possible the inappropriate use of the Confederate Battle Flag or

any other flag, seal, title or name bearing any relationship whatsoever to the Confederate States of America or the armed forces of that Government of the Confederate States of America by individuals or groups of individuals, organized or unorganized, who espouse political extremism or racial superiority and that this resolution shall be made known to all media outlets now and throughout the years of the Sesquicentennial and it shall be made patent andentered into the permanent records and archives of the General Headquarters of the Sons of Confederate Veterans at Elm Springs in Columbia, Tennessee.

   

    

For more information about the Sons of Confederate Veterans or any of this year's planned events to commemorate the Sesquicentennial of the War, contact the Georgia SCV at 404-456-3393 or online at www.GeorgiaSCV.org