Veteran Raises Religious Freedom and Free Speech Concerns at VA Medical Center

From: (name withheld)
Date: February 18, 2026 at 9:04:14 AM MST
To: [email protected]
Subject: I need a postal address for you

Hi Mikey, I just received a call from the VA Police for leaving literature directly quoting Donald Trump at the Veterans Administration Hospital in (city redacted). I was told I would receive a citation in the mail. I am sure a fine will be involved. The cop was nasty and hateful to me over the phone.

There is religious literature distributed all over this hospital. There are Christian religious plaques in my primary care provider’s clinic room that I have to look at. And I have had primary care providers who insist on concluding my medical visits with a prayer. Why do my clinic appointments have to involve prayers? 

I wonder if the VA staff at this hospital who had orgies and gang bangs in this VA hospital were ever issued citations. https://nypost.com/2024/12/04/us-news/probe-into-va-facility-uncovers-orgy-official-who-had-sex-with-32-coworkers-report/  

This hospital is in a conservative and very religious community in a red state. The Trump administration is going after LBBTQIA+ people and drag queens. But the people having orgies at this VA were all heterosexual. I wish these people could be publicly identified for their moral hypocrisy. 

I would like to send you these items in the mail so you can see them first hand. I am a veteran and have made donations to the Military Religious Freedom Foundation last year. I am going to be punished for leaving a card with a quote from Trump’s Access Hollywood video, why aren’t people punished for leaving religious literature at the hospital? And why haven’t people who have orgies at my VA being cited? 

A VA chaplain told me he was prohibited from discussing the death of Alex Pretti with me and so was my primary care provider. Alex Pretti’s murder was a source of significant emotional stress for me. Don’t I have freedom of speech to express my feelings to a chaplain or my primary care provider? I am so fed up with this nonsense. When a chaplain can’t speak freely, that is a violation of religious freedom. https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/04/23/va-asks-employees-report-anti-christian-bias-it-launches-agency-wide-investigation.html

I feel like my religious freedom is being violated because I cannot speak with a VA chaplain or my primary care provider about significant stressors like the murders being carried out by ICE. I have PTSD and really resent having my constitutional rights violated at this VA hospital. By the way, they must have facial recognition software at the hospital. No one was in the lobby area when I left the cards quoting Trump at the hospital. By the way, I am an Episcopalian and I am not anti religion. I just want religious freedom and freedom of speech when I deal with the Veterans Administration. The VA is a taxpayer funded healthcare provider for veterans, not a chain of Evangelical Christian hospitals.

I am sick of going to medical appointments and seeing little statues of Jesus at the clinic clerks desk and plaques with Bible verses with crosses. The VA’s anti Christian bias task force is really a pro Evangelical Christian task force. https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/04/23/va-asks-employees-report-anti-christian-bias-it-launches-agency-wide-investigation.html

Why do Christians get special privileges and protections and not Jews, Muslims and Hindus, or atheists and humanists? That’s what happens when you have a Baptist preacher as VA chief. I am really infuriated. I have no problem with chaplains being available and VA facilities having chapels. But I want my healthcare to be religiously neutral. 

Please provide me with a postal address so I can send these things to you. 

I had family members in Europe in the 1930s and 1940s. America under Trump reminds me a lot of what my grandparents told me Germany was like under Hitler in the 1930s. I wouldn’t be a bit surprised to find out that you and the foundation are being monitored and surveilled. 

Are you familiar with the term christofascism? 
https://www.milwaukeeindependent.com/column/christofascism-trump-era-americans-use-toxic-faith-fuel-hostile-political-authority/

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P.S. Have you seen the Melania movie? I have friends at Ft. Campbell, KY who are being told they HAVE to see it as a MANDATORY unit activity. I haven’t seen the film but I bet they left out Melania’s soft core lesbian photo shoot https://nypost.com/2016/08/01/melania-trumps-girl-on-girl-photos-from-racy-shoot-revealed/  Trump has a cult of personality and the U.S. military is now pushing Melania’s cult of personality. This film deals with Trump’s political campaign. Forcing soldiers to see it is a violation of the Hatch Act. 

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