Secularist group targets decades-long tradition of laying wreaths on soldiers' t

[JohhnyD]

Secularist group targets decades-long tradition of laying wreaths on soldiers' tombs
Wreaths Across America is accused of taking part in an 'unconstitutional' act
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/religious-freedom-group-targets-decades-long-tradition-put-on-by-wreaths-across-america

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.

"The gravesites of Christians and non-Christians alike will be adorned with this hijacked-from-paganism symbol of Christianity — circular and made of evergreen to symbolize everlasting life through Jesus Christ — whether the families of the deceased veterans like it or not," Rodda wrote.

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[THRAWN]

Why should this year be any different than any other?

[TheSkyHornet]

Why should this year be any different than any other?

It's not. It's just a newer organization that we haven't heard from in recent years, so it's circulating the interwebs and social tweetings.

Roll your eyes. Shake it off. Move on.

[LSThiker]

It's not. It's just a newer organization that we haven't heard from in recent years, so it's circulating the interwebs and social tweetings.

Roll your eyes. Shake it off. Move on.

They are not new.  They have been around since 2005.  Their continued legal actions have helped to prevent discrimination and unwanted proselytizing in the Armed Forces.  They have helped over 65,000 service members, which 95% were Christians.  The organization receives complaints from service members each year and helps to resolve issues. 

More importantly, what does this have to do with CAP?  While CAP does participate in "Wreaths Around America", that work is rather tangential to the article.

[NovemberWhiskey]

Agreed; has nothing to do with CAP and just seems like a call-to-participation in the ongoing culture wars that also do not belong in CAP.

[CAP9907]

That'll do it.

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