-By Warner Todd Huston
An “offensive” nativity scene at Shaw Air Force base in North Carolina.
An anti-religious and anti-Christmas atheist group has forced the U.S. Air Force to remove a nativity scene off base property at Shaw Air Force base in Sumter, South Carolina, saying it “violates the Constitution.”
The militant atheist group called Military Religious Freedom Foundation sent a letter to the Pentagon whining about the nativity scene early this month. After receiving the letter, Pentagon lawyers became afraid that the plastic Jesus in the Nativity scene would spark lawsuits.
Air Force crews removing the scene.
So, the Pentagon had the traditional religious scene removed out of fear.
As Todd Starnes reports, “Lt. Keavy Rake said the Pentagon warned that items that are almost exclusively religious in nature, like a Nativity scene, ‘could appear to endorse religion’ if they are displayed alone and away from chapel grounds.”
One retired member of the Air Force thinks this is a travesty.
“Let us exercise our right for freedom, let us have that because we fought for it,” said John Semmons, US Air Force (retired).
Sammons served the military for 20 years of his life but admits he never thought his religious freedom would be put to the test. He said, “I didn’t know where a plastic baby Jesus could cause such emotional distress on somebody that they’d want to get involved with the military freedom folks and get it removed.”
Another veteran, James Ward, also lamented the move. “I was shocked and disheartened to see the Nativity removed. This has tarnished the reputation of the Air Force.”
“This is much more than a war on Christmas, this is a war on the freedom of religious expression,” Ward said.
Well, what do you think about this newest outrageous War On Christmas move by militant atheists?
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Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago based freelance writer. He has been writing opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and before that he wrote articles on U.S. history for several small American magazines. His political columns are featured on many websites such as Andrew Breitbart’s BigGovernment.com, BigHollywood.com, and BigJournalism.com, as well as RightWingNews.com, MrConservative.com, CanadaFreePress.com, StoptheACLU.com, Wizbang.com, among many, many others. Huston has also appeared on Fox News, Fox Business Network, CNN, and many local TV shows as well as numerous talk radio shows throughout the country.
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