Secularist group targets decades-long
tradition of laying wreaths on soldiers' tombs
Fox News,
by
Kyle Morris
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
12/9/2021 11:45:55 AM
A secularist non-profit organization that strongly urges separation of church and state in America is taking issue with Wreaths Across America's nearly 30-year tradition of placing wreaths on thousands of military graves. 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." (Snip) 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
Reply 1 - Posted by:
earlybird 12/9/2021 11:58:40 AM (No. 1001688)
Oh, stop it. “atrocity”? Be serious.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 12/9/2021 12:00:07 PM (No. 1001690)
To answer OP. No, they do nothing productive. My church gives food to the poor and helps our community in more than a dozen other ways. So do the other churches. This would be a much poorer country without our churches. The group isn't trying to uphold our Constitution. They simply hate Christians and will do anything to harm us. People like this believe you should look to the feds for everything. God is just competition to them. They want you to only rely on government not religion.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Illinois Mom 12/9/2021 12:03:13 PM (No. 1001694)
I cannot understand people who look for things to get "outraged" about. The wreaths are placed on the graves as a way of showing that these deceased veterans are never forgotten. Wreath's are a symbol of eternal life and in remembrance of victory in service. Wreaths go back to ancient times when the victor was given the laurel wreath. Christian's belief in eternal life made them a perfect for celebrating Christmas and the birth of Jesus who would be our guide.
Maybe I'm different, but if I visited on of our cemeteries and found something similar place by a Jewish group with a similar sentiment, I would feel honored and grateful that remembering our dead was important to them. I cannot imagine being offended when, whatever the symbol, was respectful, positive and given with all good intentions.
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My suggestion is that they show up in Andersonville, GA and try to stop us from placing wreaths on the markers of Union and Confederate soldiers… Who’s the next contestant…
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
hershey 12/9/2021 12:13:22 PM (No. 1001711)
My suggestion is that they FO!.....they are the atrocity and a disgrace.....freaking commies in disguise...
https://www.usa-anti-communist.com/pdf1/45_Declared_Takover_Goals_1963.pdf
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
WV.Hillbilly 12/9/2021 12:14:03 PM (No. 1001714)
We took our Boy Scout troop to Arlington several years ago to participate in Wreaths Across America and it was one of the most memorable and moving things we've ever done. We always do the local veterans cemetery.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
itsonlyme 12/9/2021 12:15:01 PM (No. 1001716)
Chris "Rommel" Rodday strives to gain power which he, rightfully, will never have. Yet he wears the armband to show his superiority.
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Secularist groups are some of the most useless wastes of oxygen in our nation. Always committed to removing joy from wherever they can. Small minded people just cannot conceive that they should just leave the dead to rest in peace. Besides, how do these fools know what political beliefs these soldiers had? Most soldiers believed in God once they got to the foxholes.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
ladydawgfan 12/9/2021 12:30:49 PM (No. 1001734)
I've read the Constitution repeatedly and have yet to find a passage forbidding the laying of wreaths on military gravestones!!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Dsmk1260 12/9/2021 12:34:56 PM (No. 1001741)
Having done this at Arlington, the organization didn't do its homework. We were given instructions not to place wreaths on Jewish graves. In addition a wreath is not a religious symbol.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
cor-vet 12/9/2021 12:37:30 PM (No. 1001744)
MRFF Senior Research Director! Man, that's an awesome title for a do nothing nobody! All these anti-Americans give themselves great titles and fancy uniforms, to make up for what? To finally feel important, something that escaped them in the real world.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
NYbob 12/9/2021 12:39:02 PM (No. 1001746)
The left hates religion and freedom. Like communists everywhere, their only reason for being is to have total obedience to and worship of the state, Chris Rodda thinks you are too stupid to understand that by destroying every tradition showing honor for sacrifice that supports upholding freedoms in this country, we won't notice that he is forcing us to accept him and those like him as our 'Big Brother.' No thanks Chris, let's get to it and settle this in the streets like societies end up doing with evil communist filth. When it is time to gather up the wreaths for disposal, Chris Rodda's abode would be a good collection point. Didn't he say the wreaths shouldn't be on graves? Therefore, let him decide where they should go, all of them, but only when the job is finished.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
mifla 12/9/2021 12:52:37 PM (No. 1001766)
Liberals don't worship God, they worship power.
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To paraphrase Peter Bailey: these people are Frustrated and sick. Sick in their minds, sick in their souls, if they have one.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
red1066 12/9/2021 1:14:25 PM (No. 1001792)
Let this secularist group try and stop this. They will go through the court system to try and stop it. They won't show up in person because they know what would happen to them. There will be graves that won't get a wreath, but they won't be soldiers graves.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
chance_232 12/9/2021 1:32:37 PM (No. 1001806)
Help me out here..
I can't seem to find the constitutional amendment that bans a private organization from placing wreaths, themselves, purchased at their expense, on graves.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
skacmar 12/9/2021 1:37:02 PM (No. 1001808)
The professional aggrieved must find something to be offended about o in order to justify their miserable existence. People like Chris Rodda are the most miserable people around because they exist to find and be offended by everything. They find joy in nothing as it is offensive to their intellectual "superiority" to all of us "little people".
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Rather Read 12/9/2021 1:46:14 PM (No. 1001822)
Oh come on! I have Jewish and Muslim friends and they see nothing wrong with a wreath. It's not a religious symbol at all.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 12/9/2021 2:02:38 PM (No. 1001832)
So much rage...maybe they'll stroke out.
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I intend to be buried in a veterans cemetery. I am Jewish. My father and his father are buried in veterans cemeteries.
I was happy to see wreaths on my fathers’ gravestones (along with a small stone from someone who knew).
Be happy to have a wreath on mine, preferably not too soon, though!
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
downnout 12/9/2021 4:28:38 PM (No. 1001953)
These people are sick…self-loathing secularists.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
DVC 12/9/2021 8:36:53 PM (No. 1002157)
When I was in my teens, my church would gather together food baskets and I was part of a group who would take them to homes and give them to people a few days before Christmas. We always were respectful of the people we were giving the gifts to, and explained that in the spirit of Christmas we had collected some things that we thought might help them. Usually all canned foods, and usually to poor black families. And always graciously and gratefully accepted.
Somehow, I wonder how well such legitimate charity would be greeted these days. And the church members knew exactly who really needed and deserved charity and who was not deserving.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
PrayerWarrior 12/9/2021 10:41:56 PM (No. 1002238)
As my mom from the South would say, "Bless their hearts."
They must need some hugs to feel loved. Someone didn't get enough baby bottle feeding or breast feeding, anyway, these little dears just need some attention and love....smile
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
MickTurn 12/10/2021 10:34:57 AM (No. 1002591)
Separation of Church and State is a myth...Read the Constitution Morons!
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Do these people ever do anything productive for society? Go open a hospital or soup kitchen instead of trashing American traditions.