Was Tartan ever actually banned?

[davidlpope]

But during the service the Tartans WERE blessed and they raised money. This tradition continues but without the money being raised.

Is your objection that:
A. People have forgot that it started to raise money
B. That Kirkin continues today
C. or something else

My objections are:

1. I don't believe that any tartans were "blessed" in the original "Kirkings"; so the current practice involving a long line of "clan" representatives carrying oversized tartan banners into a church sanctuary to be "blessed" is really a brigadoonery that has grown up here in the US.

2. Modern-day "Kirking of the Tartans" observances invariably attribute their origin to an erroneous myth that the "Kirking of the Tartans" was a practice that originated in Scotland after the Act of Proscription (see, this isn't completely OT) when clanspeople secreted away shredded tatters of tartan cloth which were secretly brought before a priest/minister to be "blessed", instead of the genuine and impacting origin that involves Peter Marshall.

David