Save the Wren Cross - The Blog

Save the Wren Cross - the Blog - is being established to provide a means of keeping a history of the Save the Wren Cross.org group. Save the Wren Cross. Two bloggers will maintain the site: Some Have Hats and Conservative Beach Girl.

The blog is dedicated to providing a place for students, alumni, and citizens concerned with preserving history and our culture to have articles they have written posted. In order to do that, please e-mail your article to info@savethewrencross.net. The articles should focus on the intellectual and cultural issues involved in preserving our history and in stopping the sescularization of our institutions, as these pertain to the Wren Cross at The College of William and Mary. We wish to raise the level of the debate and through this blog, provide a place for your views to be heard.

Regardless of the press releases and the "words", the removal of the Wren Cross was on its face a move by Secularism in America to remove any and all symbols of faith from the American scene and the decision was one of a personal agenda writ large. What is at stake here is the preservation no less of the burning force and drive that made all of us - beyond "faith" -what we are today as a great nation. We need these symbols to our heritage, to those who have gone before, and to the very core of what we are as Americans - not as group identities which are used under the guise of "diversity" to promote our differences and thereby drive wedges between us - but as bonds that give us pride and strength in our culture, together.

What one "group" may see as a victory today will only fuel the fires designed to erode their icons and symbols tomorrow. That is why we band together now.

We have a heritage to preserve; we have a responsibility to those who have gone before us; and we have a responsibility to future generations to show them that America stands for values, heritage, culture, and the Wren Cross is a valuable part of that.

The College of William and Mary is the second-oldest institution of higher learning in the United States. The Wren Chapel is a Christian Chapel. The policy, before that policy was wiped-out by dictate by the president of The College in one stroke, had been for the Wren Cross to be removed upon the request of groups wanting to use the Wren Chapel. Otherwise, the Wren Cross was displayed in serentiy for all, beyond religious affiliation, to come and sit in reference. The Wren Cross and its return is supported by people across all lines of belief - Jewish folks, Christian folks, atheists, generally folks who describe themselves as non-religious.

Why is the replacement of the Wren Cross to its rightful place on the altar of the Wren Chapel supported across this array of people? Because the Wren Cross stands for something; it stands for hope, for love, and for unity. The Wren Chapel stands as a symbol of the history and even the founding of The College of William and Mary.

I do not know that the goal of President gene nichol (lower case his preference) is to secularize The College and revise its history. I do know that he made his decision after having been the president for six months.

Join this effort. Contact the Save the Wren Cross. At that site, you will learn how to contact the organization spearheading this effort and you will be able to sign the petition (over 6,000 thus far). You will be able to make a difference in this struggle against Secularism. You may also wish to contact the Board of Visitors for The College of William and Mary to express your views.

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