COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - South Carolina's House Speaker may have said earlier this month he doesn't want to talk about the Heritage Act's high hurdle to change public monuments, but he might have to hear it discussed in a courtroom.
A group of American Legion members in Greenwood is suing South Carolina, Speaker Jay Lucas and other officials because the legion can't change plaques on a war memorial that separate the dead from World Wars I and II into lists of "colored" and "white" without a two-thirds vote in the legislature because of the 2000 Heritage Act.
Greenwood Mayor Welborn Adams says he was stunned to see Lucas cut off any debate. Adams says Greenwood should have the same chance to heal old wounds that the state got by bringing down the Confederate flag.
