{"id":59820,"date":"2018-07-23T19:47:07","date_gmt":"2018-07-23T19:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/uncategorized\/2018\/07\/23\/fe-warren-afb-commanders-removal-of-bible-from-powmia-table-brings-praise-protests\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T11:11:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T11:11:18","slug":"fe-warren-afb-commanders-removal-of-bible-from-powmia-table-brings-praise-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/news\/your-navy\/2018\/07\/23\/fe-warren-afb-commanders-removal-of-bible-from-powmia-table-brings-praise-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"F.E. Warren AFB commander\u2019s removal of Bible from POW\/MIA table brings praise, protests"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, a conservative Republican candidate for president in 2008 and 2016, called on President Trump to reverse Air Force officials&#8217; decision to remove a copy of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/news\/your-army\/2016\/04\/19\/bible-pulled-from-depot-display-but-how-d-it-get-there\/\" target=_blank>Bible from a display table <\/a>meant to honor prisoners of war and service members missing in action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis is an issue I\u2019d love to see the president interject himself into,&#8221; Huckabee, the father of White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, said on Fox &amp; Friends Saturday morning. \u201cI\u2019d love to see him say, as commander in chief of the military, \u2018Put the Bible back on the table. Let\u2019s not be stupid about this.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In recent years, the Military Religious Freedom Foundation \u2014 an advocacy group that says it\u2019s dedicated to upholding service members\u2019 constitutional <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/your-air-force\/2017\/12\/07\/christian-groups-battle-to-save-colonels-career\/\" target=_blank>right of religious freedom<\/a> \u2014 has repeatedly objected to the inclusion of Bibles within POW\/MIA displays at military bases and VA hospitals and clinics. The issue arose again recently at Francis E. Warren Air Force Base, near Cheyenne, Wyoming, which like many other bases had placed an<a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/video\/2017\/05\/28\/the-history-of-the-powmia-flag\/\" target=_blank> POW\/MIA table<\/a> in its military dining facility. The tables date back to the Vietnam War.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Military Religious Freedom Foundation petitioned the base in May to remove the Bible and replace it with a generic \u201cbook of faith\u201d respecting all religions, according to Mikey Weinstein, the group\u2019s founder and president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Weinstein told Military Times that 36 airmen on base are clients of his foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOf those 36 clients, 21 are practicing Protestants or Roman Catholics, and the remaining 15 are a mix of other groups and backgrounds,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Weinstein\u2019s demand was met July 17 when Col. Stacy J. Huser, the commander of the 90th Missile Wing at F.E. Warren, alerted him that base chaplains had purchased a generic \u201cbook of faith\u201d and would replace the Bible with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/news\/2018\/04\/03\/air-force-colonels-career-restored-after-same-sex-marriage-discrimination-incident\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/140131-F-BX159-063.JPG.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Air Force colonel\u2019s career restored after same-sex marriage discrimination incident<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">The Air Force has ruled that one of its commanders had a right to exercise his religious beliefs when he declined to sign a certificate of appreciation for the same-sex spouse of an airman under his command.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cUntil it arrives, I\u2019ve asked them to rotate the book placed on the table (through various faiths). Yesterday they placed the Book of Mormon on the table,\u201d Huser said in an email to Weinstein that was <a href=\"http:\/\/militaryreligiousfreedom.org\/press-releases\/2018\/_Warren_Bible_Replaced_2018.html\" target=_blank>published on the MRFF website<\/a>. \u201cI will contact you again when our permanent \u2018book of faith\u2019 is on display. Thank you again for taking care of our Airmen. One of my focus areas is increasing a sense of belonging for all our Airmen.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A generic \u201cbook of faith\u201d contains spiritual writings and prayers from the five chaplain-appointed faith groups within the Defense Department, as well as a sixth set of blank pages to represent those who are atheistic or agnostic, Weinstein said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since then, a number of conservative commentators have lashed out at the switch, including Huckabee and Todd Starnes, a host of Fox News &amp; Commentary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the Fox News website, Starnes wrote that the Air Force had \u201csurrendered&#8221; in the face of MRFF\u2019s demands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI find it heartbreaking and deeply offensive that Weinstein and his minions would declare war on a sacred military tradition,\u201d Starnes wrote. \u201cAnd if the Military Religious Freedom Foundation refuses to stand down, we must stand up and urge the Trump administration to defend the POW\/MIA tables.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Weinstein has written that the tables, which are a tradition, didn\u2019t originally include Bibles. Their inclusion is a more recent phenomenon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He also expressed concern that, given the role of Huckabee\u2019s daughter within the Trump administration, the president could attempt to weigh in on this issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf Trump dared push that button, we will have him in court about as quickly as you can possibly imagine,\u201d Weinstein said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As evidence to support his case that the Bible has no place on the table display, Weinstein cited the \u201cNo Religious Test Clause\u201d within Article VI, Clause 3 of the Constitution, as well as Air Force Instruction 1-1, Sec. 2.12.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That AFI states \u201cleaders at all levels must balance constitutional protections for their own free exercise of religion, including individual expressions of religious beliefs, and the constitutional prohibition against governmental establishment of religion.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cIt\u2019s embarrassing to the nation. 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