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Secularist group targets decades-long tradition of laying wreaths on soldiers' tombs
Fox News ^ | 12/9/2021 | Kyle Morris

Posted on 12/09/2021 5:11:27 AM PST by grayboots

A secularist non-profit organization that strongly urges separation of church and state in America is taking issue with Wreaths Across America's nearly 30-year tradition of placing wreaths on thousands of military graves.

The Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) is calling out Wreaths Across America, telling the Colorado Springs Gazette that the organization's actions in placing wreaths on military gravesites around the country are "unconstitutional, an atrocity and a disgrace."

"We have no problem if people reach out and want a wreath on their deceased veterans’ graves, but to put them everywhere, to blanket them without permission of the surviving families is unconstitutional, an atrocity and a disgrace," MRFF Founder Mikey Weinstein said, according to the Gazette.

MRFF Senior Research Director Chris Rodda described the tradition of wreath-laying as the "desecration of non-Christians veterans' graves" in a November opinion piece.

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Casey Weinstein of Hudson, Ohio is the son of Mikey and is being groomed to run for President in the future. He has the people in his district snowed. I pray that he doesn't make it past being a State Representative and people will see what these Democrats want to do to our country.
1 posted on 12/09/2021 5:11:27 AM PST by grayboots
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To: grayboots

Here’s a suggestion:

If you don’t want a wreath on your loved one’s grave, take it off.


2 posted on 12/09/2021 5:22:43 AM PST by Graybeard58 (The China virus doesn't scare me, Venezuelaism does.)
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To: grayboots

I think people have seen what the Rats have already done to this country.


3 posted on 12/09/2021 5:29:45 AM PST by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.p)
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To: grayboots

Casey shouldn’t make it any higher than a county roadkill collector.


4 posted on 12/09/2021 5:30:54 AM PST by 2CAVTrooper (One Nation, Under Fraud Completely Visible, With Spying and Lying Too All.)
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To: grayboots

Mikey Weinstein can go take a long walk off a short pier.


5 posted on 12/09/2021 5:33:38 AM PST by sauropod (Meanie Butt Daddy - No you can't)
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To: grayboots
A secularist non-profit organization that strongly urges separation of church and state in America is taking issue with Wreaths Across America's nearly 30-year tradition of placing wreaths on thousands of military graves.

Calling the MRFF a 'secularist non-profit organization' is a near total misrepresentation of this embodiment of Mikey Weinstein's rabid anti-Christianity. When I look at the public positions he (I doubt that there is any internal disputes in the MRFF) has taken, they seem near universal against Christian acts & traditions with only minor actions pertaining to other religions, mostly due to attacks on military chaplains. I still have a smile that the US Supreme Court ruled AGAINST the MRFF & the AHA (American Humanist Association [atheist]) in 2019 when they reversed the 4th Circuit Court and permitted the Bladensburg Peace Cross [MD] to remain un-destroyed or moved.

6 posted on 12/09/2021 5:41:44 AM PST by SES1066 (Ask not what the LEFT can do for you, rather ask what the LEFT is doing to YOU!)
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To: grayboots

“unconstitutional”???


7 posted on 12/09/2021 6:04:28 AM PST by MrBambaLaMamba (Why allow a government of thieves, liars, braggarts, traitors, cowards and perverts? )
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To: Graybeard58

“Here’s a suggestion:

If you don’t want a wreath on your loved one’s grave, take it off.”

Here’s a coupla more...

Disinterre and move the remains to a secular place.

Never wear poppies on remembrance day.


8 posted on 12/09/2021 6:12:59 AM PST by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
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To: Graybeard58

Doubt that very many in this group have a Veteran in their family tree.


9 posted on 12/09/2021 8:02:02 AM PST by ridesthemiles ( )
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To: grayboots

Democrats code word for Marxists


10 posted on 12/09/2021 8:22:02 AM PST by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: grayboots
they have their own logo, i'd be surprised the non-christian graves get wreaths...


11 posted on 12/09/2021 9:26:20 AM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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