Posted on 10/19/2016 9:26:59 AM PDT by Kaslin
A Bible was removed from the waiting room of a Chillicothe Veteran Affairs Medical Center in Athens, Ohio after a veteran complained.
“Our government is secular, and must remain secular,” the unidentified veteran wrote.
Mikey Weinstein, the founder of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, fired off a letter to the medical center on behalf of the veteran – alleging that the presence of the Bible inside a government facility is a violation of the U.S. Constitution.
Weinstein, a fussy little man with a strong aversion to our Lord, said the Bible’s placement in the waiting room was “illicit and unconstitutional.”
In other words, “Good Housekeeping” is fine, but the Good Book is not.
The panicked VA staff scoured the entire building to ensure there were no other Bibles lurking about – waiting to spontaneously convert people. They found one.
“The Athens CBOC is unsure how this came into the clinic but it has been removed,” Associate Chief Adam Jackson wrote to Weinstein.
Ron Crews, the executive director of the Chaplain Alliance for Religious Liberty, called the VA’s decision to ban the Bible “absolutely ridiculous.”
“There is nothing wrong with a Bible being left in the waiting room along with other reading materials,” Crews told me. “If someone doesn’t want to look at the Bible, they don’t have to look at it. But it can be there for someone who may want to look at it and may find it helpful in a time of crisis.”
That’s a good point. Let’s say you’re in the waiting room dealing with a medical crisis. Would you find greater comfort in the Bible or a back issue of “People”?
Jackson seemed genuinely shocked that a Bible had somehow made its way inside the building.
“We routinely have environment of care rounding teams that look for such material,” he wrote to Weinstein.
A goon squad tasked with cleansing the building of Christianity? Now, that’s mighty creepy, folks.
Now we know why the VA can’t provide adequate medical care to our veterans – they’re too busy rounding up contraband Bibles.
I never knew they had Bible out and I’ve used the va for 5 years.
Mikey Weinstein is a piece of #####!!!!!
Went back and forth with him online once.
His contempt for Christians is palpable.
May I help you?... yes the Muslim prayer room is just down the hallway.
Insanity! I wonder what would happen if a Koran was there. Even if that was treated the same, these people show that they have no regard whatsoever for their fellow veterans.
Sad day...
when one or a minority of malcontents can rule the day.
I don’t think the veteran was a Muslim, if he was than he would have demanded that the Koran be placed there.
This is just the beginning of the new Queen Hillary’s America.
Someone needs to stand up against these atheists and stop listening to them.
He probably was not muslim, my weak point was the duplicity, my guess is a muslim would have been given whatever he demanded.
Man, would they have a fit if I even visited aVeteran carrying one of these!!! http://www.strengthforservice.org/
Our local VA clinic has a sign on the door that more or less says that if you are ill and contagious, don’t come in. It begs the question as WTF you are supposed to do. I will raise the question when I feel I can take the answer without wanting to bite their head off.
Mikey is a militant atheist and is attempting to bully the weak and stupid into accepting his brand of atheism as the only state religion.
And yes, militant atheism is a religion.
Considering the Time, Christians should be mentally preparing for far greater things than removal of Bibles. Soon, it will be the removal of our heads.
“alleging that the presence of the Bible inside a government facility is a violation of the U.S. Constitution.”
Has Weiny read the U.S. Constitution before. If he has, then where is the “right” to homosexual marriage and abortion? Please Weiny, point it out to me.
5.56mm
Weinstein is the type of Jew that gave Hitler a boost. He needs to be locked in a cell with the head of CAIR.
You don't?
Maybe you should start.
How does this one complainer get to speak for everybody else at the VA.
“Would you be happy if the bibles all had conspicuous warning labels on them, ‘Could be dangerous to a secular point of view’ ???”
How about referring the offended veteran to “Dr. Weinstein” next time he has a problem?
It’s freedom OF religion, not freedom FROM religion.
It’s RIGHTS, versus PRIVILEGES.
You want to know EVERYTHING wrong with America, top to bottom?
I just said it.
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