That bastard Lincoln: Not good enough for SF!

Letter to the editor in today's L.A. Times:

While a committee of the good citizens of San Francisco are considering social justice for Lincoln, it might review an issue far more close to home.

The early Spaniards who visited what is now California enslaved local natives and forced Christianity upon them. The church in whose name such actions were taken enshrines Francis of Assisi as one of its holiest figures.

Why glorify his name when it represents such oppression?

Louis H. Nevell
Los Angeles