"... when Duffy demands Jesus painting be restored at Merchant Marine Academy: 'Let's bring Him up!'"
Midshipmen erupt when Duffy demands Jesus painting be restored at Merchant Marine Academy: 'Let's bring Him up!'
'I've prayed underneath that painting'
By Jon Brown, Christian Post Reporter
Midshipmen at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy erupted in raucous applause last week when Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy called for a painting of Jesus to be brought up from the flood-prone basement where it was placed during the Biden administration.
Multiple midshipmen at the federal service academy in Kings Point, New York, spoke to The Christian Post and said how much the painting means to them.
During remarks made at its annual Battle Standard Dinner on April 3, Duffy promised to "work my a-- off" to ensure the increasingly dilapidated school would receive adequate funding, but drew the most vocal response when he asked for the Jesus painting to be restored.
"Can we bring Jesus up from the basement?" he asked, looking to the USMMA administration. "Let's not put Jesus in the basement! Let's get Him out! Let's bring Him up!"
Duffy, a devout Roman Catholic, appeared somewhat taken aback by the enthusiastic response, which he allowed to linger before noting it was the loudest of his entire hour-long speech.
"You want Jesus up from the basement? Alright, great!" he said. "That was the loudest applause we got!"
One tweet of Duffy's remarks received more than 560,000 views on X as of Thursday morning.
The historic painting "Christ on the Water" was relocated following a 2023 letter from Mikey Weinstein, founder of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, who issued a "demand" to USSMA Superintendent Vice Admiral Joanna Nunan that she "expeditiously remove a massive, sectarian painting illustrating the supremacy of Jesus Christ" from the Elliot M. See Room inside Wiley Hall, which serves as an administrative building at USMMA.
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