After a historic address to the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy (USMMA), in which Secretary of Transportation Scott Duffy announced that a portrait of Jesus would be returned to its place of honor after the Biden Administration ordered it removed to a damp basement, a woke attorney blasted the school and called Duffy “astray, feral dog.”
For context, the painting “Christ on the Water” or “Jesus and Lifeboat” depicts Jesus rescuing merchant mariners adrift in a lifeboat. The highly significant piece, which is tied deeply to the culture of the USMMA, was initially hidden by a sheet based on orders from the Biden administration until it was later moved to a basement.
As we reported, Sec. Duffy praised the students at the academy. He said, “You can be part of DOD, and so I just, I want you to know that I understand the conditions here, and I am going to fight my ass off to make sure you all get to be spent in the money that this academy deserves (sic).”
Building off his point, Duffy promised to return the painting to its rightful place. He explained, “Again, not only smart, not only strong, but you are a great-looking bunch of young people. And so with that, as you go, as you all go into your careers, God bless you, and may God keep you safe. Can we bring Jesus up from the basement?”
Concluding his remarks, Duffy acknowledged the thunderous applause and promised to return the academy to its former glory. Duffy said, “That was the loudest applause we got. We are going to work on that together and funding for the Academy. May God bless you all. Stay safe.”
However, this heartwarming interaction triggered Mikey Weinstein, founder and president of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation. In a profane and poorly worded statement, he wrote, “tRump’s Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is clearly bereft of any semblance of morality, ethical standard, or constitutional legality (obviously required with all MAGA filthy, ignorant, hateful, bigoted scum) and is merely throwing rotting dripping, fetid, red meat to the Christian Nationalist MAGA fascists in America, who are clearly sprinkled among the USMVA midshipmen, staff and faculty.”
Continuing his baseless allegations, Weinstein said, “Duffy is simply a stray, feral dog, lifting his leg and urinating a rancid fundamentalist Christian fealty on what MAGA fascists now apparently view as a front yard lawn toy rather than an honored cornerstone of the defense of our constitutionally created secular democratic republic. If you simply move that giant Jesus painting to some secular place at your Academy (such as your museum), MRFF has no issue whatsoever with that non-sectarian and constitutionally compliant location.”
Watch the speech here:
Concluding his bizarre rant, the lawyer provided an ultimatum. He said, “However, if you continue to debase and defile yourselves by demanding the return of highly sectarian religious artwork to its previous unconstitutional location, you will spark WORLD WAR 8!! Specifically, you will be ‘lifting a leg’ on the First Amendment’s insuperable mandate to separate that humongous sectarian religious painting of Jesus from that secular USMVA ornate conference room and its intended use (i.e., it’s not a chapel).”
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