Oh, U.S. Army, When Will You Learn?

Listen, guys.  You're the Army.  You're part of the government.  You don't get to promote any religious view over another, okay?  That whole government-can't-establish-any-religion thing?  So what the fuck were you thinking here? 

Your lieutenant colonel is trying to say that this Evans Army Community Hospital (Fort Carson, CO) emblem does not depict a cross?  That it's a middle-ages symbol of mercy?  C'mon.  Nobody is that stupid. 

Mikey Weinstein of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation is calling a spade a spade, though, by saying that it's reminiscent of the Crusades (arguably the most bloody series of religious events in the history of the world).  He says: "This continues to add more fodder to the argument that we are Crusaders. It's exactly what fundamentalist Muslims want."  Mikey, tip of the cap to you, my friend.

 

Listen, Lt. Col Steve Wollman, it's truly tacky when you pretend that this hospital emblem is not putting a certain religion smack-dab in the middle of an entirely federally-funded hospital.  In fact, your trying to make it into something that it isn't--trying to pretend it's not religious--just solidifies the fact that you know it's wrong.  If it wasn't wrong, you wouldn't have to spin it.

I thought you'd learned this after the whole bible-verses-on-rifle-sights debacle.