The Confederate battle flag is alive and well in South Carolina.
The flag is featured on a Christmas card sent to colleagues by a state lawmaker who opposed the flag's removal earlier this year from the South Carolina State House.
Rep. Chris Corley's card features the State House with the controversial flag flying, The Post and Courier reported.
The back of the card shames the lawmakers who voted to remove the flag from a Civil War memorial after nine people were killed at Charleston's Emanuel AME Church in June.
The man accused of their murders had posted photos of himself on social media with the Confederate battle flag.
According to The Post and Courier, the card reads: "May your Christmas be filled with memories of a happier time when South Carolina's leaders possessed morals, convictions and the principles to stand for what is right.
"May you have a blessed Christmas, and may you take this joyous time as an opportunity to ask for forgiveness of all your sins such as betrayal."
Corley spoke out against removal of the flag after Gov. Nikki Haley and other lawmakers banded together to move the flag, which to some is a symbol of racism and slavery, to a nearby museum, The Post and Courier reported.
The flag was placed on the State House's dome in 1962 as a show of defiance to desegregation. It was moved to the memorial in 2000.
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