Banks Calls on Buttigieg to ‘Correct’ Merchant Marine Academy’s Coverup of Jesus Painting

Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) is calling on Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg to act after a historic painting of Jesus on the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy’s (USMMA) campus was covered up.
The 1944 painting, entitled “Christ on the Water,” depicts Jesus standing on the ocean with his arms outstretched as merchant mariners drift in a lifeboat nearby, presumably after being torpedoed during World War II.
Created by U.S. Maritime Service’s Lt. Hunter Wood, the piece had hung uncovered at the academy’s Wiley Hall since 1947 until a curtain was draped over it last month in response to a complaint from the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF), a nonprofit advocacy group….}