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Washington Cathedral dean on Confederate flags: 'It is time to take those windows out'

c. 2015 Religion News Service

WASHINGTON (RNS) The dean of Washington National Cathedral has called for two stained-glass windows featuring Confederate flags to be taken down from the Gothic edifice, in another instance of institutions reconsidering tributes to the Southern cause.

“It is time to take those windows out,” said Gary Hall in a Thursday announcement.