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An attorney from the nonprofit that pushed to relocate a historic Jesus painting at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy (USMMA) in Kings Point, New York, called the midshipmen who recently cheered its restoration "cowards" and "Christian nationalist insects." Mikey Weinstein, founder and president of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, accused the young midshipmen of violating their constitutional oath for applauding Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy’s call to bring the painting up from the basement where it was moved during the Biden administration. Weinstein’s accusations come as a midshipman associated with an on-campus Christian fellowship group explained to The Christian Post...

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BRIDGEPORT, W.Va. - So much for "Thou shalt not steal." Just before 4 a.m. Thursday, an intruder snatched the contentious painting of Jesus Christ from the halls of Bridgeport High School. The theft came just two days after the Harrison County School Board voted to fight a legal challenge over the portrait. Schools Superintendent Carl Friebel said the bandit took the painting, but left behind the gilded frame and backing. "The picture was the only thing stolen, so the deliberate intent was to steal the picture and only the picture," Friebel said. Three security cameras caught images of the intruder,...