Midshipmen warn left-wing politics are infiltrating Merchant Marine Academy: 'Last frontier for woke ideology'
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Several current and former midshipmen at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point, New York, told Fox News Digital that "woke" ideology has been infiltrating the institution.
The academy made headlines in January for a controversy over "Christ on the Water," a historic painting that depicts Jesus Christ walking on the water toward merchant mariners lost at sea. The image painted by Hunter Wood, a merchant mariner whose art drew on his own experiences, has adorned the Elliot M. See conference room located in the school's administrative Wiley Hall for 76 years. "There was a lot less woke stuff around campus, and then it's just slowly crept in." "It's almost like we're the last frontier for woke ideology." Jon Brown is a writer for Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent to jon.brown@fox.com.
"Aboard the fragile lifeboats, the men [in World War II] placed their faith in a Power greater than theirs, interpreted here by Hunter Wood in perhaps his most ambitious work," reads a description of the painting by the USMMA from the 1970s.
The academy placed a white curtain over the painting after a complaint from the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF). In his Jan. 10 letter to USMMA Superintendent Vice Adm. Joanna M. Nunan, MRFF president and founder Michael Weinstein argued that the painting's display constituted a violation of the First Amendment's clause forbidding the establishment of religion.
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