A Nativity display at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center was removed.
Posted on 12/21/2024 2:35:34 PM PST by ebb tide
A Nativity display at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center was removed.
A nativity displayed in a lobby of Walter Reed National Military Medical Center (WRNMMC) was removed within minutes after the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) dispatched an email complaining about the presence of the scene depicting the night Jesus Christ was born.
MRFF complained to the medical center’s chief of staff, demanding that hospital administrators “immediately remove this unconstitutional, illicit and clearly sectarian Christian nativity scene display from your America Building facility.”
“The in-your-face presence of this incontrovertibly nonsecular Christian nativity scene is causing egregiously deleterious impact to the good order, morale, discipline, unit cohesion and mission accomplishment of those both under your command at WRNMMC and those honorable military members and veterans who comprise your patient constituency,” complained Michael L. “Mikey” Weinstein, founder and president of MRFF.
Weinstein’s letter went on to describe the presence of the Nativity scene as a “terribly unfortunate matter of unconstitutional, illicit Christian supremacy, dominance, exclusivity and exceptionalism” that is “just plain WRONG on SO many levels!!”
Weinstein said in his email that he was writing on behalf of “41 WRNMMC patients, staff and their families on this matter … 27 of them are practitioners of the Christian faith themselves and the others are from the Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist and Native American faith traditions as well as some from the non-faith traditions such as Agnosticism, Atheism and Secularism and Humanism.”
Soon after the complaint was acknowledged by the medical center’s chief of staff, MRFF received confirmation that “the nativity scene had been moved to one of the facility’s chapels, the only place where such a display belongs.”
Pictures posted by MRFF showed the new location of the Nativity set, stacked on a cart, relegated to the back of a chapel within the WRNMMC complex.
“It’s unfortunate that the Pentagon surrendered to a bunch of anonymous Christ-hating bigots,” conservative Christian commentator Todd Starnes wrote on X.
“But their days of power and influence in the pronoun-confused, woke Defense Department are numbered,” suggested Starnes, hopeful about president-elect Donald Trump’s yet-to-be confirmed choice for Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth.
“I predict that Pete Hegseth will have no problem telling Mr. Weinstein and his godless band of thugs to pound sand,” Starnes said.
“What about the remaining 7795 combined staff/patients in beds? I suppose it’s okay to trigger or demoralize them by not having a display that lifts them up?” an X user asked. “Seriously, instead of ripping out displays, can’t we find a way to respect and celebrate the fact that in this great country, everyone has the right to celebrate the holidays as they choose?”
“Can they do that also for the satanic statues being placed around the country?” another asked. “I think they’ll find many Christians who were offended.”
“But this is not religious liberty,” they added. “It is removing religion from the public square.”
Located just outside of Washington, D.C. in Bethesda, Maryland, the WRNMMC complex occupies a large tract of land across the street from the sprawling National Institutes of Health (NIH).
“But their days of power and influence in the pronoun-confused, woke Defense Department are numbered,” suggested Starnes, hopeful about president-elect Donald Trump’s yet-to-be confirmed choice for Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth.
“I predict that Pete Hegseth will have no problem telling Mr. Weinstein and his godless band of thugs to pound sand,” Starnes said.
Ping
the proper answer would be, “A Nativity scene could not be a more profound statement of religious freedom”. Now show then the door.
Never had a problem till Madalyn Murray O’Hair got prayer out of schools in 1963 or so.
Now these freedom from religion groups are raising hell all over the US for the last 60 years.
Maybe a band of wounded soldiers will attack the area and secure the Nativity scene. Stand watch on it until after Christmas and throat-punch anyone who tries to intervene. Stop bitching because we display our faith. Where the hell are you during your celebration of the whateverthefuck? You guys bitch at us and do nothing for yourselves so screw you and your complaint.
US Marines Receiving Communion on Iwo Jima, February, 1945
Why the hell do believers have to surrender to atheists? It is long past time that these Godless idiots be told this country was founded on Kiddo Christian beliefs not on paganism. Might want to include congressmen and judges.
I can’t believe a nice Irish Catholic boy like Michael Weinstein complained about the nativity scene
This s__it will come to a screeching halt when Hegseth takes over. He is going to need a big shovel and a huge manure spreader to clean that place out. It’s another Obozo legacy.
The courts will get involved and some Obozo judge will play black robe tyrant.
I guess my question is, is there a Christmas tree on display there?
No reason to remove it. I hope this is the last time for another 4 years that this kind of thing is removed.
As CatholicVote previously reported, the first display of the idol Baphomet, the goat-headed symbol of the Satanic Temple, was destroyed Dec. 9. New Hampshire State Rep. Ellen Read (D-Newmarket) had invited the Temple, based in Salem, Massachusetts, to set up a “holiday display” at the Capitol.
Read is a member of the Satanic Temple, and she claimed that the statue is not offensive.
“There were accusations that it meant to denigrate Christians, but there was nothing about it that was denigrating Christians,” she said. “If you don’t want to allow it for all religions, then you don’t have to allow religious displays.”
Concord Mayor Byron Champlin opposed the display.
A year from now this won’t be happening: guaranteed.
A year from now this won’t be happening: guaranteed.
The more you know…
The militant Jew is the most intolerant type, when it comes to religion, meaning Christianity.
To them, they think that making the world forget the Christ means they are serving God. They’d rather live in a world of Islam than Christianity. To them, Christianity is the bigger threat to the Jew because of it’s ideology.
Totally absurd. No one is forcing anyone to accept Christianity when they pass a nativity scene in the lobby. It’s like that wonderful scroll bar on the right. Just walk right by if you don’t want to enjoy the statuary. But for those who like it, allow them a smile to make their day and maybe their smile will also make someone else’s day.
I’m not even Christian, and I can’t stand this. anti-Religious bigotry disguised as “religious freedom”.
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