Nantucket Church Cites ‘Our Own Whiteness’ in Canceling Fourth of July Readings

A church on Nantucket says it won’t host its Fourth of July readings of the Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights as America celebrates its 250th anniversary because of “our own whiteness.”

Division has sprouted in the quaint Massachusetts island community after the Nantucket Unitarian Universalists announced that it wouldn’t be holding its annual holiday readings of America’s founding documents in “political protest.”

The Nantucket Unitarian Universalists, which says it puts its “faith into action through social justice work,” is pointing directly to the Supreme Court’s ruling that electoral mapmakers relied too heavily on racial demographics to hit specific minority-representation targets.

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The Nantucket Current posted on its Facebook page on Friday that St. Paul’s Church has responded to the Unitarian Universalists’ stance by deciding to host its own reading of the Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights.

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