Vice President Pence says, ‘The Bible stays’ at veterans hospital facing lawsuit

Mikey Weinstein, founder and president of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, in a statement called Pence “one of the most repulsive and repellent fundamentalist Christian supremacists and bullies on the scene today” and added that “it is hardly surprising that he is lending his ugly bigotry and pervasive prejudice in support of keeping that Christian bible bolted down on that POW/MIA table at the Manchester, New Hampshire VA Medical Center.”

The medical center initially removed the Bible in January after the foundation objected, saying it got complaints from 14 patients who felt it violated the First Amendment. A variety of religions were represented among the 14.

But the Bible reappeared on the table in February. It was put in a clear case and secured to the table. A Department of Veterans Affairs spokesman said the Bible was put back after the medical center received an outpouring of complaints from veterans and others.

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