Republican Rep. Jim Banks (Ind.) has called for Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg to take action after a historic painting depicting Jesus Christ accompanying merchant seamen lost at sea during World War II was covered up at the Merchant Marine Academy to allegedly create “a welcoming environment.”
Since the USMMA falls under Buttigieg’s purview, this apparent act of intolerance is his to rectify.
Prior to upbraiding Buttigieg Monday for his significant delay in addressing the “toxic disaster” in East Palestine, Ohio, Banks wrote to the secretary concerning the concealment of the painting entitled “Christ on the Water.”
According to the USMMA, the 10’x19′ painting “depicts an image of Jesus and merchant seamen adrift in a lifeboat, presumably after being torpedoed in the Indian Ocean during World War II.”
The painting is a heritage asset under the U.S. Department of Transportation Maritime Administration.
The Christian Post reported late last month that the massive 1944 painting by U.S. Maritime Service Lt. Hunter Wood — who fought in the war — was hidden away after an activist group from New York complained with iconoclastic vigor.
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Time to straighten out those Anti- Christians in OUR AMERICA !!!! We ARE a Christian Country !!!
No we are not a Christian country 9:55. In America, the Constitution specifically provides that we are free to practice any religion we like, or no religion at all. Because of our Constitution you are blessedly free to follow your Christian faith, but not to impose it on those of other faiths or those who don’t follow any religion at all.
you are asking a mentally deficient person who lives the most perverse lifestyle to rescue a painting of Jesus?
Who’s dumber you or him?