WASHINGTON, DC — On May 22, Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX-21) led 16 Members of Congress in expressing concern to VA Secretary McDonough over Central Texas Veterans Health Care System’s decision to remove a cross bearing the emblems of American military branches and the words, “Remember our Veterans” from the lobby of a VA clinic in Austin, Texas.
The lawmakers wrote, “Reports indicate CTVHCS took this step following a complaint that the display somehow violated the U.S. Constitution. CTVHCS’s decision exhibits remarkable disregard for the First Amendment and hostility toward basic military history and the traditions of the United States.”
“The greatest members of our founding understood that the religious and moral nature of America’s heritage was critical to this Republic’s preservation and to our veterans and men and women in the Armed Forces,” the letter continues. “Attempts to sterilize the public square – in this case a clinic that provides medical care to the veterans that sacrificed for our Republic – of all symbols of Christianity flies in the face of the very founding of our nation…out of respect for the veterans who have borne the battle for this Republic, its principles, and the freedom it guards — we request that you immediately return the cross to its original display.”
Read the full letter here.
Original source can be found here.
