Group Condemns Laying Wreaths on Veterans' Tombstones, Calls Them 'Christian Gang Signs'
December 20, 2021
The nonprofit group Wreaths Across America is guilty of “carpet-bombing” the country’s 155 national cemeteries with “Christian gang signs.” That is according to the leader of a group opposed to faith-based military observances.
Michael “Mikey” Weinstein, president of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, told Fox News he’s not opposed to Christmas wreaths but argued it’s problematic to place them on thousands of veterans’ tombstones across the U.S.
“That’s like carpet-bombing,” he told the news site. “That looks like it’s a Christian gang sign, that you’re creating territory that is a Christian territory.”
Weinstein first issued a statement against the annual holiday gesture in late November, condemning Wreaths Across America for “indiscriminately” decorating tombstones with Christmas wreaths.
“The gravesites of Christians and non-Christians alike will be adorned with this hijacked-from-paganism symbol of Christianity — circular and made of evergreen to symbolize everlasting life through Jesus Christ — whether the families of the deceased veterans like it or not,” he said.
Story by Tré Goins-Phillips of Faithwire
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