Due to MRFF: Framed Christian American Flag Removed Within 24 Hours from Military Installation HQ Building
Publisher: In-Sight Publishing
Publisher Founding: September 1, 2014
Publisher Location: Fort Langley, Township of Langley, British Columbia, Canada
Publication: Freethought Newswire
Original Link: research@militaryreligiousfreedom.org
Publication Date: August 1, 2024
Organization: Military Religious Freedom Foundation
Organization Description: The Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) is dedicated to ensuring that all members of the United States Armed Forces fully receive the Constitutional guarantee of religious freedom to which they and all Americans are entitled by virtue of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. Over 89,000 active duty, veteran, and civilian personnel of the United States Armed Forces, including individuals involved in High School JROTC around the nation, have come to our foundation for redress and assistance in resolving or alerting the public to their civil rights grievances, with hundreds more contacting MRFF each day. 95% of them are Christians themselves.
| MRFF VICTORY!!! |
FRAMED CHRISTIAN AMERICAN FLAGREMOVED WITHIN 24 HOURS, DUE TO MRFFFROM SO-CALLED “HERITAGE DISPLAY” IN MILITARY INSTALLATION HQ BUILDING “Without the MRFF’s aid this clearly illegal Christian American flag display would never have been removed. We all know thatthe MRFF takes the heat for all of us when it intervenes and our appreciation is both sincere and enormous. Thank you to the MRFF and Mr. Weinstein.Because we are in a highly secure area it was not possible to get a before and after photo…” Excerpt from letter to MRFF by— Senior Active Duty Officer and MRFF Client  Christian Flag for Illustrative Purposes added by MRFFFlying the Christian Flag in the face of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), our U.S. military once again proves they are in march step with the dangers of Project 2025 which are set to destroy DEI in the military. “Project 2025,” the MAGA-worshipping Heritage Foundation’s blueprint for Trump’s dictatorship of Americawill allow carte blanche massive full-blown approval for U.S. Military Chaplains to minister any way they want! MRFF Matters – 8/1/24 – Mikey Weinstein on MRFF’s Victory over Christian Exclusivity by Having Framed Christian American Flag Removed.  Click to watch (2:10) video |
| Letter From Senior Active Duty Officer and MRFF Client Expresses Gratitude for MRFF’s Swift Action in Effectuating the Removal of the Large, Framed “Christian American Flag” From Unit’s So-called “heritage display” in HQ Building Facility. From: (Senior Active Duty Officer/MRFF Client’s E-mail Address Withheld)Subject: Christian American Flag Removed by the MRFF’s Intervention: Long overdue thank youDate: July 31, 2024 at 7:34:21 AM MDTTo: Information Weinstein <mikey@militaryreligiousfreedom.org> Mr. Weinstein and the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, I apologize for not writing sooner with an expression of sincerest gratitude for the swift action of the MRFF Reps at our military installation and Mr. Mikey Weinstein for effectuating the removal of a large, framed “Christian American flag” from our unit’s so-called “Heritage Display” in our HQ building facility. Because we are in a highly secure area it was not possible to get a “before and after” photo which I know the MRFF wanted here. I am a senior officer in our unit and for the record am a Christian myself. I was the initial individual of many who reached out to our MRFF Reps and Mr. Weinstein for help. This framed Christian American flag looked like the regular American flag but had a red Christian cross over a dark blue background where the stars are normally located on the American flag we are all used to seeing. It was horrifying to see this as an integral part of this military heritage official display. We have troops of many faiths in our unit and also those who follow no faiths at all. It had been placed there in the midst of a display of the history of our unit’s storied combat history through the years. Our Command Chaplain had the idea which was enthusiastically endorsed by our Commander. As soon as it had been erected there was huge disapproval in our ranks about it. I and some others personally spoke with our Commander as to how wrong this display was but he had been convinced by our Command Chaplain and his own lackey Staff Judge Advocate (both extremely conservative, evangelical Christians) that the display was “completely legal’ as it was “only part of a historical representation” of our unit’s combat record through many years of military service. I tried to push back that it violated a number of regulations and the Constitution but got nowhere. You can push your Commander only so far. We needed help. Within 24 hours of asking for help from the MRFF, this framed “Christian American flag” was removed from the otherwise non-objectionable heritage display in the lobby of our HQ building facility. I had given our MRFF Reps the contact info to pass onto Mr. Weinstein for our Commander’s senior command chain. Mr. Weinstein had several direct conversations with them and the unconstitutional display was then removed immediately with no explanation at all by our Commander or his Command Chaplain nor SJA legal staff. This all went down a few months ago and I should have sent in a proper thank you note but most of us who reached out to the MRFF were expecting retaliation from our unit’s leaders. And, well, we just waited and probably too long. I got the silent treatment myself from the Commander for several weeks but things seemed to have settled down now. I guess I’ll have to await to see my fitness evaluation/report before I know for sure. Senior Active Duty Officer/MRFF Client’s ID Info All Withheld Click to Read in Inbox |
| Mikey Weinstein’s April 2024 Op-Ed on “Project 2025” |
| MRFF OP-ED “It’s Project 2025, Stupid” By: MRFF Founder and President Mikey Weinstein Wednesday, April 10, 2024 |
 Back in 1992, political consultant James Carville coined the phrase “It’s the economy, stupid” to help explain the essence of what was then at stake in the pending Presidential election between Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush.Carville was intending to boil down to the most basic explanative brevity of the true grit of what that next election was all about. Today we face the brutal reality of an America more bitterly divided than at any time in its history, with the debatable exception of the Civil War. This existential chasm is literally tearing apart families, marriages, friendships, businesses, and every other type of human relationship extant in the United States today. If you’re not seeing that you’re either seriously impaired or asleep. Most voters are completely unaware of an impossibly wretched set of policy proposals developed by a slew of ignoble right-wing entities but spearheaded by the ultra-conservative, MAGA-worshipping Heritage Foundation. Ready? It’s called “Project 2025.” Its official name is “The Presidential Transition Project.” OK, are you tracking with me so far?! Before you do ANYthing else please, Please, PLEASE click the links in the next two paragraphs and, well, BEHOLD! Just LOOK at the mind-blowing hellscape of what is left of America if this wickedly evil, anti-Constitutional, anti-democratic, and wholly fundamentalist Christian nationalist screed, born from the ignominious depths of the shameful, stinking MAGA womb, is EVER allowed to be wielded like a flame thrower upon our nation’s way-too-naive-and-sedentary population. Project 2025 plans to purge the government of tens of thousands of non-MAGA personnel and replace them with MAGA loyalists are already well under way. The goal, according to a must-read Axios article, is (emphasis added) “to install a pre-vetted, pro-Trump army of up to 54,000 loyalists across government to rip off the restraints imposed on the previous 46 presidents.” The vetting process includes filling out Project 2025’s “Presidential Personnel Database & Presidential Administration Academy Questionnaire.” Prospective appointees will attend the “Presidential Administration Academy” to be ready “on Day One” to “immediately begin rolling back destructive policy and advancing conservative ideas in the federal government.” Project 2025’s plans for the military are equally sweeping, as laid out in the 920-page Project 2025 book Mandate for Leadership. Fundamentalist Christian chaplains will be unfettered in their proselytizing, the most senior flag officers (three and four stars) will be “instructed” to make sure they’re “not pursuing a social engineering agenda,” courses at the military academies will be audited “to remove Marxist indoctrination” and tenure for (presumably non-MAGA) professors will be eliminated. And, of course, the current policies that allow transgender individuals to serve will be reversed. We at the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (mrff.org) fight ‘round-the-clock to prevent our nation’s military, its 18 intelligence agencies, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the U.S. Coast Guard, and the U.S. Maritime Service from EVER being transformed into a fatal force multiplier for the blood-thirsty MAGA maniacs who developed and plan to implement Project 2025, fueled by the appalling propellant of fundamentalist Christian nationalism. And we at MRFF have been, are, and will continue to be the direct targets of the cowardly wrath of these same MAGA villains. (To this end, please see Margaret Atwood’s disturbingly dystopian The Handmaid’s Tale or the TV series of the same name streaming on Hulu). So, in the ensuing seven months before our next national elections, may I respectfully urge you to IMMEDIATELY take at least 300 to 600 seconds out of your busy day? Why? Because you MUST think about and deeply internalize NOW the beyond-shocking consequences to our country should Project 2025 ever be actualized by those who planned, developed and intend to implement it with unremitting fury and vengeance. Indeed, actualized well beyond that of the ugly lynch mob of “Unite the Right” racists and nazi-loving fascists and Christian nationalists displayed in Charlottesville, Virginia on August 11 and 12 of 2017. It will savagely terminate justice, freedom, and democracy in America. It will turn our United States military into the quintessential MRFF nightmare of a zombie army of imperious, fundamentalist Christian crusaders. It will propel tyranny and despotism and autocracy and fascism. It will spew bigotry, misogyny, and hatred of “The Other” and prejudice writ unimaginably ginormous as newly bedrock U.S. policy. It will spell The End of all we know as decency and American freedoms as laid out in our precious U.S. Constitution. There is still some small amount of time left to spread the word and try to wake up our friends and family and acquaintances as to their, and our, pathetically putrid, pitiful, and deserved fate if we don’t all FIGHT like HELL to prevent Project 2025 from ever being birthed and then wielded like a berserk nuclear weapon by Christian extremist, MAGA monstrosities. The answer is beyond obvious lest we ever wonder why the America we all grew up in has pervertedly morphed into the murderously oppressive, repulsive, Christian nationalist country of “Gilead” in Atwood’s seminal book referenced above. It’s Project 2025, stupid! |
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| Military superior tries to force Christian Vacation Bible School on his subordinate families From: (Active Duty Enlisted Member’s/MRFF Client’s e-mail address withheld)Subject: Military superior tries to force Christian Vacation Bible School on his subordinate familiesDate: July 20, 2024 at 10:14:48 PM MDTTo: Information Weinstein <mikey@militaryreligiousfreedom.org> Hello Mr. Weinstein and the MRFF Team here at (military installation name withheld) as well as all MRFF staff everywhere. Thank you all for getting some actual justice for us here against one of our superior officers who was trying to get us to pay his church to have our kids proselytized to his own Christian Faith. I am an active duty military enlisted service member and the leader of 32 fellow active duty service members who reached out for the MRFF’s help here recently at (military installation name withheld). Our assigned military unit is large and diverse as to ethnicity, faith and political views et al. One of our MRFF Reps here on base has helped me write this e-mail to MRFF so that other folks can see the abuses that went on here. |
| Thank you MRFF from our Jewish Military Family From: (Spouse of Active Duty Enlisted Member/MRFF Client’s e-mail address withheld)Subject: Thank you MRFF from our Jewish military familyDate: July 21, 2024 at 8:37:27 PM MDTTo: Information Weinstein <mikey@militaryreligiousfreedom.org> Dear Mr. Mikey Weinstein and the MRFF, Mr. Weinstein thank you for taking both of my calls today. I am the wife of one of the 32 enlisted MRFF clients you all are representing at (military installation name withheld) in the matter of one of our unit’s most senior officers trying to force us all to have our children attend the Christian Vacation Bible School which he and his wife are teaching. As I mentioned to you in the second call today, our family is Jewish so this whole thing was particularly hurtful, painful and insulting to all of us. Especially when this officer mentioned that his Vacation Bible School can save the souls of the children even if the mom and dad’s souls can’t be saved. Just a terrible insult to our Jewish family and heritage and the families of the other 31 MRFF clients most of whom happen to be Christian. |
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