A Confederate soldiers group that filed a lawsuit last month to stop a “truth telling” exhibit from opening at Stone Mountain Park were dealt a blow by Georgia’s attorney general.
The Georgia Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans filed the lawsuit against the state park, saying officials broke state law by planning an exhibit exploring ties to slavery, segregation, and white supremacy.
Georgia law 50-3-1(b)(3) states no publicly owned monument on property owned by the State of Georgia can be relocated, removed, or hidden. Georgia mandate (12-3-192.1) also states the purpose of the Stone Mountain Memorial Association is to “maintain an appropriate and suitable memory for the Confederacy.” Both passed in 2019…