An Indiana congressman called on U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg to "act immediately to correct" a decision by the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy to cover a painting of Jesus. Four of his colleagues issued a plea to the academy superintendent last week.
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Indiana GOP Rep. Jim Banks called on Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg to take action after a historical painting depicting Jesus was covered with a curtain by the academy.
Mikey Weinstein, chief of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, has attacked as an "atrocity" a program to lay wreaths at the tombs of American soldiers.
A massive painting of Jesus walking on water will no longer be visible at the United States Merchant Marine Academy in New York after an advocacy group complained about the artwork.