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A Riveting Week That Changed America Witnessed at Such a Indiana Fallout on Pace V20, N40 Wednesday, July 1, 2015 A riveting week that changed America witnessed at such a Indiana fallout on pace. While Congress Obamacare, marriage and state legislatures remain mostly inert remains to be seen as the general pub- lic evolves quickly on By BRIAN A. HOWEY social issues, it was the INDIANAPOLIS – In a Supreme Court and the riveting 24-hour period last week, corporate community Americans saw the U.S. Supreme that decisively moved Court reaffirm Obamacare, then the needle. legalize same-sex marriage in all What remains to 50 states. A few hours later at the be seen is whether this funeral for South Carolina State Sen. evolution folds seam- Clementa Pinckney, the full frontal lessly into American assault on the Confederate battle culture, or whether this flag continued, quickly spreading is only the calm before from President Obama’s citation of various groups on the the flag as racist, to a similar assess- social right regroup and ment from Republican Jeb Bush, to prepare for other fights retailers such as eBay, Amazon and along other picket lines. Walmart, to the Alabama statehouse On Obamacare, where Gov. Robert Bentley ordered which had faced more its removal from the heart of Dixie. than 50 repeal votes in It was a stunning week that Congress that were es- changed America in ways rarely Continued on page 3 A Hoosier in S. Carolina By BRIAN A. HOWEY NASHVILLE, Ind. – Historical karma seemed to flow out of every American pore last week, with South Carolina at the epicenter. Following the almost unfathomable atrocity at the Mother Emanuel AME Church “Oh, but God works in myste- in Charleston the week before, what the world witnessed in this rious ways. God has different bloody aftermath was a brand ideas. Blinded by hate, the of Christianity where the faith- ful walked the walk, and talked alleged killer could not see the the talk, in phrases we hear in a political context even up here in grace surrounding Rev. Pinckney the north. and that Bible study group.” The families of the vic- tims, confronting the pathetic - President Obama, eulogizing shooter Dylann Storm Roof at Sen. Clementa Pinckney his arraignment, revealed a Page 2 is a non-partisan newslet- ter based in Indianapolis and Nashville, Ind. It was founded in 1994 in Fort Wayne. It is published by stunning power of forgiveness that I remember one of the adult chaper- WWWHowey Media, LLC should live as an heroic example for ons glancing at me during the service, 405 Massachusetts Ave., the ages. asking, “Is this par for the course?” Growing up in Northern Afterward, we joined our Suite 300 Indianapolis, IN Indiana, I was a faithful adherent to hosts for a lovely picnic outside the 46204 President Lincoln and was a Civil War church before settling into very, very aficionado. I dutifully observed at 7:22 humble quarters at a nearby school Brian A. Howey, Publisher a.m. April 15, 1965, the 100th an- gym. For the rest of the week, we Mark Schoeff Jr., Washington niversary of the Great Emancipator’s worked with the locals on various death before heading to school. I was home and community construction Jack E. Howey, Editor about as Yankee as you could get. Yet projects. We went to a “crab crack” at Mary Lou Howey, Editor it was my church, Main Street United a local bar (the Hoosier chaperones Maureen Hayden, Statehouse Methodist in Peru, Ind., that opened were quite nervous about this event) Matthew Butler, Daily Wire my heart to the people of South Caro- and we kids, well, we loved it. We Mark Curry, photography lina. loved the people we met and worked Our Methodist Youth Fellow- with. We went back two more times ship group performed annual work before I graduated from high school. Subscriptions trips over spring break, and for three That’s what I love about the South- HPI, HPI Daily Wire $599 years in the early 1970s, we traveled land. Every time I’ve been there, I HPI Weekly, $350 south of Charleston to Yonges Island found welcoming folks, even though Ray Volpe, Account Manager near Edisto Beach, where we did work I discovered on one trip to Greenville, projects with the local African-Amer- S.C., that people were making fun of 317.602.3620 ican Methodist Church. It was a cul- my Hoosier accent. email: [email protected] tural shock the first time we arrived, I returned to South Carolina on an Easter Sunday morning after a last winter, jumping off the interstate Contact HPI grueling trip that included breakdowns at Columbia, taking SR 23 down to www.howeypolitics.com of the bus loaned from Ancilla College. Hilton Head, a resort full of gated We attended the Easter communities. One thing that stood [email protected] service where the congregation de- out on the drive through rural South Howey’s cell: 317.506.0883 monstrably participated in the singing Carolina: I saw only one Confeder- Washington: 202.256.5822 of the hymns, unlike how we sedately ate flag flying in a front yard, and no Business Office: 317.602.3620 did it in Peru. Then Rev. Blake gave decals and license plates on vehicles. the sermon, which was an absolute I see more Confederate flags here in stem-winder castigating President Indiana than I did in South Carolina. © 2015, Howey Politics Indiana. Nixon. Mind you, we were from Betty We passed Mother Emanuel as we All rights reserved. Photocopy- Rendell’s Miami County, a true bastion walked Charleston, not realizing what ing, Internet forwarding, fax- of Midwestern Republicanism. The the near future held. ing or reproducing in any form, fact that the sermon was so overtly Last Friday afternoon, I was whole or part, is a violation of political (and now thinking about it in riveted by the funeral of State Sen. a historical context was probably more Clementa Pinckney, whose district was federal law without permission right than wrong) was a culture shock. adjacent to that of Yonges Island and from the publisher. Page 3 Edisto Beach. AME Bishop Richard Norris observed that his history of bombs and arson and shots fired at churches, state had risen to its finest hour in the aftermath of the not random, but as a means of control, a way to terror- massacre. Yes, it did. ize and oppress. An act that he imagined would incite fear President Obama then gave one of the most and recrimination; violence and suspicion. An act that he memorable eulogies. The President put things into con- presumed would deepen divisions that trace back to our text: “Over the course of centuries, black churches served nation’s original sin. as ‘hush harbors’ where slaves could worship in safety; “Oh, but God works in mysterious ways,” Obama praise houses where their free descendants could gather said. “God has different ideas. He didn’t know he was be- and shout hallelujah, rest stops for the weary along the ing used by God. Blinded by hatred, the alleged killer could Underground Railroad; bunkers for the foot soldiers of the not see the grace surrounding Reverend Pinckney and civil rights movement. They have been, and continue to that Bible study group, the light of love that shone as they be, community centers where we organize for jobs and opened the church doors and invited a stranger to join in justice; places of scholarship and network; places where their prayer circle. The alleged killer could have never an- children are loved and fed and kept out of harm’s way, and ticipated the way the families of the fallen would respond told that they are beautiful and smart and taught that they when they saw him in court, in the midst of unspeakable matter. That’s what happens in church.” grief, with words of forgiveness. He couldn’t imagine that.” For most Hoosiers, our state’s role in the Under- Nor, in the days that followed the massacre, could ground Railroad is a source of vast pride. we imagine the conservative Gov. Robert Bennett of Ala- “That’s what the black church means. Our beating bama removing Confederate flags from his statehouse, as heart,” Obama continued. “The place where our dignity Gov. Nikki Haley would press for in South Carolina, or the as a people is inviolate. When there’s no better example transformation on the subject of U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham of this tradition than Mother Emanuel, a church built by and State Sen. Paul Thurmond, as well as NASCAR, which blacks seeking liberty, burned to the ground because its is now divorcing the widespread use of the battle flag. founder sought to end slavery, only to rise up again, a The Mother Emanuel massacre was a trans- Phoenix from these ashes.” formational event at a time when the cultural changes in Obama continued, saying, “We do not know America are rapid and unpredictable. whether the killer of Reverend Pinckney and eight others The grace of the people caught up in this chapter knew all of this history. But he surely sensed the mean- was, to me, not so surprising given my experiences on ing of his violent act. It was an act that drew on a long Yonges Island decades before. v U.S. Rep. Larry Bucshon, a heart surgeon from America, from page 1 Newburgh, observed, “While the Americans who may have lost their health insurance because of a poorly written, sentially for show, there was disappointment expressed by flawed law are no longer at risk of losing their subsidies, Gov.
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