Historic Church Halts Decades-Long July 4th Tradition, Will Complain About ‘Whiteness’ Instead

With America’s 250th birthday right around the corner, it might seem like the perfect time for Americans to come together and celebrate our common history and culture.

But today’s left would never go for something unifying when there are White people to blame.

And that’s precisely the message sent from one historic church on the exclusive island of Nantucket.

Wtf. Erin Splaine, the "Reverend" of the woke Unitarian Universalist Church in Nantucket, just canceled July 4th celebrations because White people are "privileged" and honoring American history "perpetuates the harm, injustice, and anti-democratic process."

She then forbids… pic.twitter.com/uv9SDih7gn

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) May 29, 2026

Fox News reported on the controversial decision to cancel a longstanding Independence Day event … and the even more controversial reason behind it:

“Our cancelling the 4th of July celebration this year reflects … an on-going process within the congregation to better understand our own whiteness,” wrote Nantucket Unitarian Universalists (NUU) and the Rev. Erin Splaine of the Second Congregational Meeting House Society in a letter published by the Nantucket Current on Thursday. 

The historic Nantucket Unitarian Meeting House has hosted a public reading of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights in downtown Nantucket each Fourth of July holiday for the past 25 years.

The decision comes as communities across the country prepare for events tied to America’s upcoming semiquincentennial celebrations, sparking criticism from social media users amid a broader debate over how the nation’s founding documents should be commemorated.

The news sparked some social media discussion:

My condolences. I'll be partying my proud, beautiful, shiny WHITE butt off!

— Freylis (@__Freylis__) June 2, 2026

Who needs them, someone else will fill the role of reading the Declaration. Why does the LGBTQ think they hold so much power. It is because they are all a bunch of delusional individuals with a God complex.

— Marie (@Marie3228781589) June 2, 2026

A bunch of racists, I’m willing to bet they are white boomers

— Mr. Slick (@MrSlickJournal) June 1, 2026

Here’s what the New York Post reported:

The self-proclaimed “liberal and free faith” leaders claimed that white people know the rights laid out in the America’s foundational texts “have, for centuries, been tragically, often violently, and unequally applied” against non-white citizens.

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“A celebration without context and the centering of the fullness of our American Story only perpetuates the harm, injustice, and anti-democratic process,” the letter said.

Splaine, a lesbian preacher, said that she will be at the church on Independence Day morning “should anyone want to talk or engage further.”

St. Paul’s Episcopal Church of Nantucket will fill the void and host its own reading of the Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights.

“Those documents are aspirational. We may not be there yet, but we felt it was important to gather together and try to live up to the promises our country has made,” St. Paul’s Rev. Max Wolf told the Nantucket Current.

And elsewhere in Massachusetts: