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Military Religious Freedom Foundation @mikeymrff.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day, Leif Erikson Day, and Columbus Day! MRFF Board Member John Compere gives us a history lesson on the discovery of our American continent.

“COLUMBUS DAY” is an annual federal holiday created in 1971 and observed on the 2nd Monday in October (October 13 this year) recognizing the arrival of Columbus in the Americas. The United States, Tex...

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Military Religious Freedom Foundation @mikeymrff.bsky.social · 4d

MRFF client reacts to Hegseth’s Quantico meeting: “You guys at the MRFF are badly needed now more than ever to counter these toxic religious zealots that Trump, Hegseth and MAGA want to force on us.”

From: (name withheld)Date: October 10, 2025 at 12:51:56 PM MDTTo: Mikey Weinstein Subject: MRFF needed now more than ever Dear Mikey, I have been a client of the MRFF for nearly a year now and ...

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Military Religious Freedom Foundation @mikeymrff.bsky.social · 7d

“Hegseth Hostage Speaks Out” — MRFF Senior Active Duty Client Ordered to Hegseth’s Quantico Confab Paints a Grim Picture of our Military’s Readiness
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“Hegseth Hostage Speaks Out” — MRFF Senior Active Duty Client Ordered to Hegseth’s Quantico Confab Paints a Grim Picture of our Military’s Readiness

“Our U.S. military leadership is now totally rudderless and adrift in a world where only our nation’s enemies will revel in our descent into chaos.” “To the point, the MRFF is so badly needed to co...

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Military Religious Freedom Foundation @mikeymrff.bsky.social · 9d

Senior active duty MRFF client who attended Hegseth’s meeting at Quantico: “Our U.S. military leadership is now totally rudderless and adrift … our nation’s enemies will revel in our descent into chaos. ”
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Senior active duty MRFF client who attended Hegseth’s meeting at Quantico: “Our U.S. military leadership is now totally rudderless and adrift … our nation’s enemies will revel in our descent into chao...

From: (Senior Active Duty MRFF Client’s e-mail address withheld)Subject: Quantico Virginia Eye WitnessDate: October 5, 2025 at 10:09:35 PM MDTTo: Mikey Weinstein <[email protected]> ...

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Military Religious Freedom Foundation @mikeymrff.bsky.social · 12d

MRFF Covered by The Christian Science Monitor on Rabid Misogynist Hegseth’s War on Female Warriors
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MRFF Covered by The Christian Science Monitor on Rabid Misogynist Hegseth’s War on Female Warriors

“Since Mr. Hegseth became defense secretary, the Military Religious Freedom Foundation has received a ‘tsunami’ of calls, says Mikey Weinstein, a former Air Force officer and lawyer, and the group’s f...

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Military Religious Freedom Foundation @mikeymrff.bsky.social · 14d

MRFF Receives Mass Media Coverage; From Hegseth's “No More Beardos” Edict to Duffy’s Latest Giant Jesus Antics at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy

MRFF Receives Mass Media Coverage; From Hegseth’s “No More Beardos” Edict to Duffy’s Latest Giant Jesus Antics at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy

Coverage by:The Forward, Military.com, Christian Post, Jonathan Larsen “We don’t have a military full of Nordic pagans.” — Pete Hegseth on religious exemptions for beards, which allow Orthodox Jew...

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Military Religious Freedom Foundation @mikeymrff.bsky.social · 15d

MRFF Issues “Keep Away” Warning to Parents and Guardians of Prospective Merchant Marine Academy Candidates as Duffy Completes Giant Jesus Rehanging
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MRFF Issues “Keep Away” Warning to Parents and Guardians of Prospective Merchant Marine Academy Candidates as Duffy Completes Giant Jesus Rehanging

“Transportation Secretary and lickspittle Christian nationalist tRump sycophant Sean Duffy’s effectuating of the illicit, unethical, and iniquitous return of the giant Jesus painting at the U.S. Merch...

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Military Religious Freedom Foundation @mikeymrff.bsky.social · 18d

MRFF’s Mikey Weinstein Interviewed by National Journalist Nina Burleigh on Hegseth’s Summoning of 800 Generals and Admirals to Quantico
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MRFF’s Mikey Weinstein Interviewed by National Journalist Nina Burleigh on Hegseth’s Summoning of 800 Generals and Admirals to Quantico

National politcal journalist Nina Burleigh has covered MRFF many times over the years for Newsweek. Now, in a must-read interview of Mikey Weinstein for her Substack “American Freakshow” — a specia...

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Military Religious Freedom Foundation @mikeymrff.bsky.social · 19d

MRFF at 20: Mikey Weinstein On MRFF’s Origins and Current Struggles Amid Rising Christian Nationalism in the U.S. Military – Interviewed by Scott Douglas Jacobsen, “A Further Inquiry” on Substack
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MRFF at 20: Mikey Weinstein On MRFF’s Origins and Current Struggles Amid Rising Christian Nationalism in the U.S. Military – Interviewed by Scott Douglas Jacobsen, “A Further Inquiry” on Substack

"By December 15, 2025, we’ll mark MRFF’s twentieth anniversary as a recognized 501(c)(3). My wife and I actually started this fight in early 2004, and the spark was Mel Gibson’s film The Passion of th...

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Military Religious Freedom Foundation @mikeymrff.bsky.social · 21d

MRFF Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize by One of the Founding Members of Nobel Peace Prize-Winning Humanitarian Organization
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MRFF Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize by One of the Founding Members of Nobel Peace Prize-Winning Humanitarian Organization

MRFF’s nomination for the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize comes from a dedicated advocate for peace and human rights, who is also a founding member of a Nobel Peace Prize-winning humanitarian organization. Thi...

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Military Religious Freedom Foundation @mikeymrff.bsky.social · 26d

MRFF Vehemently Condemns the Military’s Appalling Consideration of a Charlie Kirk Centered Recruiting Campaign — WITH NEW VIDEO FROM MIKEY WEINSTEIN
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MRFF Vehemently Condemns the Military’s Appalling Consideration of a Charlie Kirk Centered Recruiting Campaign — WITH NEW VIDEO FROM MIKEY WEINSTEIN

"This is Hamas Level Shit!" — Retired flag officer (general or admiral) to Mikey Weinstein after reading the report from NBC News on Hegseth’s military considering a Charlie Kirk centered recruiting c...

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Military Religious Freedom Foundation @mikeymrff.bsky.social · Sep 12

MRFF Unreservedly Condemns SECDEF Pete Hegseth’s Forcing a Captive Audience of Troops to Pray In Jesus’ Name for Charlie Kirk
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MRFF Unreservedly Condemns SECDEF Pete Hegseth’s Forcing a Captive Audience of Troops to Pray In Jesus’ Name for Charlie Kirk — WITH VIDEO MESSAGE FROM MIKEY WEINSTEIN

“While we grieve for Kirk, his grotesque death should never be used to validate the statements that he believed in.” “Hegseth getting in front of those troops and forcing them into a Christian pray...

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Military Religious Freedom Foundation @mikeymrff.bsky.social · Sep 10

MRFF Featured in Religion News Service Article on Openly Christian Nationalist Bible Verse Social Media Posts from Hegseth’s “Department of War”
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MRFF Featured in Religion News Service Article on Openly Christian Nationalist Bible Verse Social Media Posts from Hegseth’s “Department of War”

“This is nothing more than a fast-ticking time bomb that will blow up in our faces. … It is encouraging a tremendous response by our enemies who are out there, many of whom follow their own extremist ...

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Military Religious Freedom Foundation @mikeymrff.bsky.social · Sep 9

MRFF Covered in USA Today Article on Misogyny and Christian Nationalism Featuring Hegseth’s Pastor who Wants Women Kept Out of Military Leadership
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MRFF Covered in USA Today Article on Misogyny and Christian Nationalism Featuring Hegseth’s Pastor who Wants Women Kept Out of Military Leadership

The misogyny of Christian nationalism “wants to replace our democracy with this barbaric version of Christianity, and an essential part of that is male dominance … It’s right out of Handmaid’s Tale.” ...

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Military Religious Freedom Foundation @mikeymrff.bsky.social · Sep 8

MRFF’s Mikey Weinstein Rebukes Duffy’s USMMA Football Game Video: “You have Christian men dedicated to country … This is America at its finest.”
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MRFF’s Mikey Weinstein Rebukes Duffy’s USMMA Football Game Video: “You have Christian men dedicated to country … This is America at its finest.”

“Can you imagine the putrid and boundless conceit of that piece of shit Duffy and how it must’ve made everyone else feel who saw that video at the United States Merchant Marine Academy, or any place e...

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Military Religious Freedom Foundation @mikeymrff.bsky.social · Sep 3

MRFF Disgusted But Not Surprised at Hegseth Rehanging Portrait of Robert E. Lee in Confederate Uniform — Complete with Slave — at West Point
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MRFF Disgusted But Not Surprised at Hegseth Rehanging Portrait of Robert E. Lee in Confederate Uniform — Complete with Slave — at West Point

Not to be outdone by Christian nationalist transportation secretary Sean Duffy and his headline-grabbing crusade to return an enormous painting of Jesus to the administrative building at the Merchant ...

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Military Religious Freedom Foundation @mikeymrff.bsky.social · Sep 2

MRFF Recommended Reading: “Christian Nationalism in Uniform: Faith and Power in the Pentagon” — Brewminate covers the rise of Christian nationalism in the military, from MRFF’s early exposure at USAFA to Hegseth’s Pentagon

"Pete Hegseth’s embrace of Christian nationalism inside the Pentagon is more than symbolic. It is a test of how resilient the American republic remains." — Brewminate Click to read on Brewminate

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Military Religious Freedom Foundation @mikeymrff.bsky.social · Aug 25

“America’s Best Christian™” Mrs. Betty Bowers Urges Donations to MRFF From the Hotbed of Christian Nationalism
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"America's Best Christian™" Mrs. Betty Bowers Urges Donations to MRFF From the Hotbed of Christian Nationalism

Help Support the Honoring of Our Constitution In Our U.S. Military! MRFF commissioned writer and producer Andrew Bradley to create this satirical fundraising video, featuring "America's Best Christ...

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Military Religious Freedom Foundation @mikeymrff.bsky.social · Aug 22

MRFF Says Good Riddance to Rabid Christian Dominionist, Misogynist, Hate-Filled Bigot, Homophobe, and Child Beating Advocate James Dobson
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MRFF Says Good Riddance to Rabid Christian Dominionist, Misogynist, Hate-Filled Bigot, Homophobe, and Child Beating Advocate James Dobson

“It’s no secret that James Dobson despised me and the Military Religious Freedom Foundation and we despised him and every vile thing he ever stood for, including, but hardly limited to, homophobia, Is...

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Military Religious Freedom Foundation @mikeymrff.bsky.social · Aug 19

MRFF Rescues Sailors from Supervisor’s Office Bible Studies — Sailors Told About MRFF by Officer Helped by MRFF Eight Years Ago
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MRFF Rescues Sailors from Supervisor’s Office Bible Studies — Sailors Told About MRFF by Officer Helped by MRFF Eight Years Ago

“Thank you to the MRFF for getting me and my buddy out of having to go to my military shift supervisor’s Bible studies held Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings in our shift supervisor’s office. They...

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Military Religious Freedom Foundation @mikeymrff.bsky.social · Aug 14

MRFF Recommended Repulsive Read: The Guardian — "How Pete Hegseth's Zeal to Bring Religiosity to the Pentagon is Dividing the Military"
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The Guardian confirms what MRFF has been saying for over two decades — forcing religion on our service men and women, as Hegseth is determined to do at every opportunity, destroys unit cohesion, good ...

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Military Religious Freedom Foundation @mikeymrff.bsky.social · Aug 13

MRFF and its USMMA Clients Disgusted as Christian Supremacist DOT Sec’y Duffy Continues his Vindictive Crusade to Make Giant Jesus Unconstitutional Again
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MRFF and its USMMA Clients Disgusted as Christian Supremacist DOT Sec’y Duffy Continues his Vindictive Crusade to Make Giant Jesus Unconstitutional Again

Mikey Weinstein tells The Christian Post that moving the gigantic Jesus painting back to the Merchant Marine Academy’s administrative building would be: “... as repugnant to our U.S. Constitution’s se...

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Military Religious Freedom Foundation @mikeymrff.bsky.social · Aug 12

MRFF’s Mikey Weinstein Issues No Holds Barred Call to Action on The Thom Hartmann Program — “You can’t just sit back. Do something!”
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MRFF’s Mikey Weinstein Issues No Holds Barred Call to Action on The Thom Hartmann Program — “You can’t just sit back. Do something!”

“At some point your children or grandchildren are going to ask: ‘What did you do in the 2020s to fight this?’” — MRFF Founder and President Mikey Weinstein on The Thom Hartmann Program Click to rea...

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Military Religious Freedom Foundation @mikeymrff.bsky.social · Aug 11

MRFF Condemns SECDEF Hegseth’s Praise of Christian Nationalist Pastor Who Says Women Shouldn’t Vote or be in Military Combat or Leadership Roles – WITH NEW VIDEO FROM MIKEY WEINSTEIN
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MRFF Condemns SECDEF Hegseth’s Praise of Christian Nationalist Pastor Who Says Women Shouldn’t Vote or be in Military Combat or Leadership Roles – WITH NEW VIDEO FROM MIKEY WEINSTEIN

In a CNN interview last week, Christian nationalist pastor Douglas Wilson proclaimed, among other outrageously misogynistic things, that women shouldn’t be allowed to vote or serve in combat or leader...

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Military Religious Freedom Foundation @mikeymrff.bsky.social · Aug 6

MRFF client and supporter who resolved First Amendment issue with leadership writes: “There is no doubt in my mind MRFF’s influence was a big factor in this positive outcome.”

MRFF client and supporter who resolved First Amendment issue with leadership writes: “There is no doubt in my mind MRFF’s influence was a big factor in this positive outcome”

From: (MRFF Client and Supporter's name withheld)Subject: Thank you MRFFDate: August 5, 2025 at 8:57:29 PM MDTTo: "'Michael L Weinstein'" Mikey, Something happened at an official function a coup...

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