Posted on 01/24/2024 4:02:24 PM PST by algore
A Veterans Affairs supervisor at an undisclosed facility has reportedly removed a 'not today, Satan, not today' sign from her desk after a colleague filed a complaint with a nonprofit civil rights organization.
An unnamed Air Force veteran who 'subscribes to many non-theist teachings (including Satanist)' claimed that the anti-Satan sign was prominently placed on the supervisor's desk.
The honorably discharged vet described the display as a 'grotesque Christian supremacist sign,' in an email to the Military Religious Freedom Foundation - the organization that took up the cause.
The MRFF and attorney Michael Weinstein, who specializes in religious freedom cases, were prepared to go to battle with the VA employee when the display was removed before an initial meeting could even take place.
Weinstein, who has successfully litigated cases that involve religious displays on military grounds, told The Christian Post that the 'Not Today Satan' sign was a 'was a noxious example of trying to express a particular religious view in a situation where it simply was not warranted.'
The anonymous VA worker was, according to Weinstein, 'already having significant problems with his or her immediate supervisor, and this didn't help any.'
When questioned by the religious outlet about defending devil worship, Weinstein said that some remain in the dark about 'the full nature of satanism.'
'It's not sacrificing children at midnight with knives,' he said, though he acknowledged that most people consider Satan to be evil.
'Remember, in our perspective, we don't look at it as to what is good and bad. We look at what is legal and what's not legal,' he added, noting that most of his clients have historically been Christians facing workplace discrimination.
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Just refuse to remove it. It’s supposed to take forever to fire a Federal Employee.
I saw a guy with a leather “Not Today Satan” jacket at Cabela’s a few years back. It looked pretty dumb.
I saw a guy with a leather “Not Today Satan” jacket at Cabela’s a few years back. It looked pretty dumb.
Exactly, or does that only apply to non Christians?!
non-Christians don’t believe in a devil anyway so what the heck is big deal? do people go after people who believe in Santa Claus because THEY don’t?
The second display needs to be a Koran with big ol “Aloha Snack bar” right on top
Atty. Michael or “Mickey” Weinstein is a well known atheist who sees it as his duty to scrub all vestiges of Christianity from the US Military. He has been allowed to do this for several years.
Some folks are a bit too tightly wound. This guy, who apparently hates Christianity, whining about a joke sign is one of them.
WRONG! There are no "anonymous" workers in the government; they are public servants and need to be identified by name!
She needs to put a sign up that says… “In God I trust”
At the San Diego VA, I saw the Coexist poster in a counselor’s office and I actually received some harassment from a Muslim physical therapist who not only proselytized me but sketched the Muslim symbol on my instructions.
Mikey doesn’t like it. And I don’t like Mikey.
And make it twice as big and light it up. Our national motto.
His biggest “triumph” was having all the bibles removed from the POW/MIA tables in Air Force chow halls. Piece of work. His company should be called freedom from religion...
Of course the Synagouge of Satan loves Satan.
it is a federal office
Wjen i was employed by the V.A. in 2003, i was instructed that no personal religious decorations at your workspace shall be displayed.
So from my experience, he was wtong.
Put up a bigger sign. And write it in Arabic.
This “sign” is not a religious emblem, it’s an internet meme, referring to a movie clip.
Does “from the river to the sea” count as a “religious decoration”?
Lol.
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