Anti Religious Group Tells Military Hospital To Change Their Motto Symbol

 

AP – This image provided by the Evans Army Community Hospital at Fort Carson, Colo., on April 29, 2010. shows …

By DAN ELLIOTT, Associated Press Writer Dan Elliott, Associated Press Writer – Thu Apr 29, 1:06 pm ET

DENVER – A religious watchdog group says a cross and motto on the emblem of an Army hospital in Colorado violate the constitutional requirement for separation of church and state and should be removed.

The Military Religious Freedom Foundation asked the Army this week to change the emblem of Evans Army Community Hospital at Fort Carson, outside Colorado Springs.

The emblem says "Pro deo et humanitate" or "For God and humanity."

Fort Carson commanders will review the complaint, Lt. Col. Steve Wollman said.

He said the emblem had been approved by the Army Institute of Heraldry and has been in use since 1969.

Wollman said references to doctors serving God and humanity date to the time of Hippocrates, a pre-Christianity Greek physician.

Wollman said the cross, which has a pointed base, is both an emblem of mercy and a symbol dating to the Middle Ages, when pilgrims carried a cross with a spiked base to mark the site of a camp.

Mikey Weinstein, president of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, said that's a reference to the Crusades and could embolden U.S. enemies who want to portray the war on terror as a Christian war on Islam.

"This continues to add more fodder to the argument that we are Crusaders," Weinstein said. "It's exactly what fundamentalist Muslims want."

Weinstein's foundation, based in Albuquerque, N.M., last week persuaded the Army to withdraw an invitation to evangelist Franklin Graham to speak at the Pentagon on May 6, the National Day of Prayer.

Weinstein cited comments Graham made in 2001 describing Islam as evil. The Army said it withdrew the invitation because Graham's remarks were "not appropriate."

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JMC Ministries Response

So say someone comes along one day and looks at you and says I don’t like the clothes you are wearing go change them and then threatens to take you to court if you don’t is pretty much what is going on today it seems.

These Anti Religious groups are just going around this Country looking for things that they dislike and bully people until they get rid of them. 

What about our Freedoms? What has happened to them?

Why is it the only freedoms that seem to be upheld are the ones trying to take ours away?

This symbol was set into place before this so called separation of church and state was ever set into place. Which is not actually in our original U.S Constitution it is an amendment that was added. So that people like this can try and bully those who seek the freedoms that our Forefathers laid down for us.

But in today's society these freedoms are a dangerous threat to those who dislike the Christian Values our country was founded on.

We are a threat to them and they want to annihilate us into silence and remission.