FEMA: Sorry photog asked faith shirts be removed

[Bill Mattocks]

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ihes1WKSwJEJxBrRMqTDLrxgX3QAD9FPLK5O0

FEMA: Sorry photog asked faith shirts be removed
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS (AP) – 2 days ago
JACKSON, Miss. — The top officer for FEMA said one of the agency's videographers was "absolutely wrong" to ask Mississippi church volunteers not to wear religious T-shirts for a video about tornado cleanup.
Angelia Lott and Pamela Wedgeworth, who are sisters, told The Associated Press that the FEMA worker videotaping the cleanup on Saturday in the small town of Ebenezer asked them to do on-camera interviews but requested that they change out of their T-shirts because of a Salvation Army logo.
"He said, 'We would like to ask you to change your shirt because we don't want anything faith-based,'" Lott said Tuesday.

The article goes on to say that FEMA apologized and there is a reference to the photographer in question being fired.

I don't care who comes to rescue me or my family if they're wearing a Salvation Army or a "Allah Saves" t-shirt. Whatever, just throw me a rope. But I guess when you have to be politically-correct...

 

[Archangel M]

When did the whole "separation of church and state" thing get so twisted and misconstrued??

 

[Carol]

When did the whole "separation of church and state" thing get so twisted and misconstrued??

When it gets in the way of a photo op, natch.

 

[Bob Hubbard]

I saw that story, wanted to smack the photog for being a dink.

 

[Cryozombie]

When did the whole "separation of church and state" thing get so twisted and misconstrued??

When people started saying there was such a thing as "separation of church and state"