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18 Oct 3:50 pm
The Texas Lawyer (via Law.com) reports that Mikey Weinstein, founder of the Military Religious
Freedom Foundation, has filed a petition in Texas state court seeking to enjoin Gordon Klingenschmitt
from allegedly urging his followers to injure Weinstein and his family....
23 Jan, 2008 1:13 am
... Jewish Voice has published an interview with Michael Weinstein Founder and President of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation. Weinstein has been fighting religious proselytizing in the military. He says, in part: I tell people also this is not a Christian-Jewish issue
... 800 active duty members of the United States Marine Corp, Navy, Army and Air Force have come to our foundation pretty much as spiritual
rape victims/tormentees and the shocking thing is 96% of them coming to us are Christians ...
25 Sep, 2007 6:49 am
The Navy Times today reports that Spc. Jeremy Hall who recently filed a lawsuit against the military claiming he was threatened by an Army
major for holding a meeting of non-Christians and atheists in Iraq now says that he is personally being harassed. E-mails from Hall to Mikey Weinstein, founder of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, say that Hall has been threatened on blogs with being killed by friendly fire for filing the lawsuit. Meanwhile, Lt. ...
19 Sep, 2007 12:30 am
A press release distributed by the Military Religious Freedom Foundation yesterday announced a religious discrimination lawsuit
that has been filed against the Department of Defense and an Army Major: (MRFF) and U.S. Army ... rights under the Constitution. The complaint charges that Hall, who is based at Ft.
Riley, Kansas, has been forced to "submit to a religious test as a qualification to his post as a soldier in the United States Army," a
violation of Article VI, Clause 3 of the Constitution. ...
1 Mar 4:31 am
... at homecoming ceremonies for service personnel returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. A lawsuit challenging improper promotion of religion in the military is pending in federal court. (See prior posting.) Meanwhile, the Obama administration may be more sympathetic to ... the first time, a member of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff met with activist Mikey Weinstein, head of the Military Religious
Freedom Foundation. Air Force chief of staff, Gen. Norton A. Schwartz, acknowledged to Weinstein that
there is a ...
26 Sep, 2008 3:40 pm
Yesterday the Military Religious Freedom Foundation filed suit in Kansas federal district court, along with Army Specialist Dustin Chalker, alleging that the Army improperly requires military personnel to attend official functions and formations that include sectarian Christian prayer. According to the complaint in Chalker v. Gates, (D KS,
filed 9/25/2008) (full text), Chalker is an atheist and is stationed ...
11 Oct, 2008 9:50 pm
... for Pfc. Jeremy Hall filed a motion Friday in federal court in Kansas to dismiss Hall's suit against the military. The suit charged Hall
was prevented from holding a meeting of atheist soldiers when he was deployed in Iraq. Hall plans to leave ... , and this avoids litigation over Hall's standing to continue the suit.
However a lawsuit filed in October by the Military Religious Freedom Foundation on behalf of Spc. Dustin Chalker raises related claims that soldiers were forced to attend events
that ...
26 Jun, 2008 9:51 am
Yesterday's Kansas City Star reported that the Military Religious Freedom Foundation is objecting to a portion of a program scheduled to be re-broadcast on July 4 and 5 on the
Trinity Broadcasting Network. MRFF says that 20 minutes ... "Red, White and Blue Spectacular" starring Christian singer and evangelist Carman may violate a prohibition against uniformed
military officers endorsing specific religions. The program, originally produced in 2003, includes an interview with Army Lt. Gen. Robert L.
...
13 Dec, 2006 8:44 am
The former White House lawyer who helped expose religious discrimination at the U.S. Air Force Academy, has again uncovered an effort to push
evangelical Christianity in the military. Michael "Mikey" Weinstein's Military Religious Freedom Foundation hosted a press conference Monday...
19 Dec, 2007 9:31 am
The Washington Post reports today that the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) has released new photographs and videotapes which the group asserts document an
environment in which aggressive proselytizing by evangelical Christian groups is permitted and military officers tolerate the...
9 Jul, 2008 10:51 am
... a memorandum in support of the motion (full text) in Hall v. Welborn. In March, Jeremy Hall and the Military Religious Freedom Foundation filed suit in federal district court in
Kansas claiming that a meeting of atheists and freethinkers organized by Hall ... about his treatment and that he did not show injury from the alleged pattern and practice in support of
religion. It also argued that judicial review would interfere with military operations and personnel matters committed to military expertise.
23 Dec, 2007 4:20 am
Yesterday's Baltimore Chronicle & Sentinel carries a lengthy opinion piece by Jason Leopold on the Military Ministry, a national
organization that is a subsidiary of Campus Crusade for Christ. Relying in particular on information discovered by Mikey Weinstein of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, Leopold reports that "Military Ministry's staff has successfully targeted US soldiers entering basic
training at Lackland Air Force ...
3 Aug, 2007 8:50 am
In a press release issued today, Military Religious Freedom
Foundation founder Mikey Weinstein drew attention to a July 20 report by the Department of Defense Inspector General that found wrongdoing in
connection with the appearance by military officials in a video promoting Christian Embassy. (See prior posting.) The Inspector General's
Report (full text via Truthout.org) found that seven military officers ...
14 Jun, 2007 12:40 am
BuzzFlash yesterday published a long interview with Mikey Weinstein, founder of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation on his book, With God on Our Side: One Man's
War Against an Evangelical Coup in America's Military. Focusing on concerns with proselytizing at the Air Force Academy, Weinstein said: We now
have ... active cases going on at the Academy. Over forty-two hundred members of the U.S. military -- Marines, sailors, soldiers, airmen,
veterans -- have come talk to us, and roughly ...
5 Oct 3:00 am
Today's Dallas Morning News reports on a lawsuit filed by Mikey Weinstein, founder of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, against former Navy chaplain Gordon
Klingenschmitt, Jim Ammerman and Ammerman's Chaplaincy of Full Gospel Churches. Weinstein says that they are conspiring to encourage violence against him. The complaint (full text) in
Weinstein v. Ammerman, (Dallas Co. TX ...
7 Jul, 2008 5:23 pm
Truly foundation constitutional decisions are (thank God) no longer made in the United States. To witness life-or-death constitutional
decision-making, one needs to go abroad. It is a tribute to the ... something vaguely identified as "progressivism" - openness to foreign values, democracy, freedom of expression, etc. Turkey exposes the arbitrariness of this assumption: In Turkey, secularism goes hand in hand with military dictatorship, ruthless censorship, and suspicion of anything foreign. It is ...
24 Apr, 2007 8:28 pm
... are free to compete for adherents without governmental preference, and all who are within the country's borders have the freedom to worship
(or not) as they please. For that reason, the religion of Wicca is entitled to the same governmental respect as every other sincerely- ... , according to a Pentagon survey cited in the
suit, and Wiccans have their faith mentioned in official handbooks for military chaplains and noted on their dog tags. Veterans Affairs
officials no doubt shared the same view as ...
12 Dec, 2006 5:27 am
... general to investigate a video produced by Christian Embassy featuring endorsements of the group by high-ranking active-duty military
officers in uniform. Christian Embassy, formed 31 years ago to promote Christian values among government officials, holds ... viewers that the group does not represent the government or
any federal agency. UPDATE: The Military Religious Freedom
Foundation has expanded its Freedom of Information Act request to the Pentagon, asking it to also
look into whether it gave ...
31 Aug, 2007 2:15 am
Truthout reports today that another use of Pentagon facilities by evangelical Christian groups has been uncovered by the Military
Religious Freedom Foundation. In 2005, in connection with
its two-week "D.C. Crusade", the North Carolina-based H.O.P.E. Ministries ... 's newsletter that "three souls were saved among those who attended those events". Mikey Weinstein,
president of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, said H.O.P.E Ministries' presence inside the Pentagon was a violation of required ...
29 Dec, 2008 10:30 pm
Yesterday the Military Religious Freedom Foundation filed an amended complaint (full text) in Chalker v. Gates, (D KA, filed 12.29/2008), seeking to protect ... and practice of the Defense Department
and the U.S. Army unconstitutionally promoting religious belief. The 25-page amended complaint lists more than 2o examples of ... flyovers at
religious events to the content of the Army's suicide prevention program. The suit was originally filed last September. (See prior posting.)
Yesterday's Kansas City ...
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