WASHINGTON POST
& RELIGION NEW SERVICE
COVER MRFF
Colorado memorial draws
religious freedom concerns
By: Joseph Hammond
Tuesday, June 29, 2021
MRFF synopsis of article:
This highly accurate and comprehensive article from the Religion News Service (RNS), and republished by The Washington Post, covers all of the salient points of this story, including the memorial’s regulation-violating use of DoD emblems, which are prohibited from being used to promote religion, and the fact that the town did not sell the plots of land on which the memorial sits until AFTER MRFF raised its objection to it in an attempt to make the unconstitutional memorial constitutional by transferring the land into private hands.
In a quote in the article, MRFF’s Mikey Weinstein made it clear that MRFF’s objection to the memorial is not an attack on the Eagle Scout whose project it was, but on the town government responsible for allowing it, saying: “There is no issue with the Boy Scout or his project to honor his grandfather. The issue is that a sectarian and Christian supremacist perspective is being promoted.”
