But he is wrong.Īfrican American gay activist and CNN political commentator Keith Boykin was one of the first to challenge his absurdity.
Kelly’s moral relativism suggests there’s no absolute truth about the war, only truths a particular individual or culture upholds. Kelly also suggested ‘the lack of an ability to compromise led to the Civil War’.Īnd with these words, President Donald Trump’s second-in-command only deepened the divide in this country about slavery.īoston-born Kelly made the remarks, perhaps unsurprisingly, on Laura Ingraham’s new Fox News show on 30 October. Nobody is more in need of a queer history lesson on the Civil War than White House chief of staff John Kelly who recently described Confederate General Robert E Lee as ‘an honourable man’.
