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PAR FOR THE COURSE:
MRFF
UNDER ATTACK FROM
CHRISTIAN FUNDAMENTALISTS
MRFF, ACLU, AARP Slammed
as "Anti-Christian" by
American
Family Association* 
Tuesday, February 24, 2015
*MRFF NOTE: the Southern Poverty Law Center has characterized the
American Family Association as not only a domestic hate group, but one of the
"chief purveyors of lies about LGBT people” that result in trauma,
hate crimes,
and a tragic epidemic of teen suicides.
Selected Article Excerpt:
The American Family Association has identified groups and organizations that openly display bigotry toward the Christian faith.
These groups are deeply intolerant towards the Christian religion. Their objectives are to silence Christians and to remove all public displays of Christian heritage and faith in America.
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A Nation that Welcomes All Religions Shouldn’t Persecute Any Religion, Including Christianity. Our President Should Know This.
Tuesday, February 24, 2015
Selected Article Excerpt:
Still not convinced? Let me offer you a few examples of the persecution of, or institutionalized bias against, Christians in recent months:
Under pressure from the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, headed by the virulently anti-Christian Mikey Weinstein (an advisor to the Obama administration on military/religious matters), an Army recruiting station in Phoenix was told by its superiors to remove a sign which read "On a Mission for Both God and Country”. Weinstein called it a "stunning unconstitutional disgrace”, which would probably come as a surprise to General George Washington, who once declared, "To the distinguished Character of Patriot, it should be our highest Glory to add the more distinguished Character of Christian.”
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Tuesday, February 24, 2015
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MIKEY WEINSTEIN OP-ED
PUBLISHED IN HUFFINGTON POST
FLOWER POWER: National Security, Civil Rights, and the Washington Florist
Tuesday, February 24, 2015
At first glance, one can be forgiven for thinking that a floral arrangement for a gay wedding doesn't carry much significance for the essential national security of the United States of America. With perilously increasing military tensions spanning the Middle East, Asia, North Africa, and Eastern Europe, one can be absolved for making such an assumption. However, the military implications of this week's historic decision in Washington State by Benton County Superior Court Judge Ekstrom simply canNOT be understated.
Ekstrom's watershed decision came about when a case was brought before the Benton County Superior Court when the ownership of a small flower shop, Arlene's Flowers, refused to provide services on the professed basis of their Southern Baptist, Christian fundamentalist zeal to a frequent customer who sought arrangements for his same-sex wedding ceremony. Judge Ekstrom struck down this reprehensibly unlawful and unconstitutional behavior when he stated, "While religious beliefs are protected by the First Amendment, actions based on those beliefs aren't necessarily protected." Indeed, the First Amendment to the United States Constitution is NOT a license for private business owners to sanctimoniously bully, marginalize, and violate civil rights as they see fit because of their alleged "relationship with Jesus Christ" (or Allah, Jehovah, Yaweh, Odin, Shiva, Spiderman etc.). Indeed, just as it isn't a license for anyone else to engage in whatever extremist, unlawful practice they might imagine their chosen deity to prefer.
For those of us who have been leading the civil rights fight of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF), the only organization devoted solely to fighting the scourge of extremist Christianity within the U.S. Armed Forces, the story is a common one. Since the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell (DADT), we saw that various Dominionist bigots within the military were pathetically prostituting the flimsy gauze of "free speech" as a means towards turning back this historic victory for sex & gender minorities (and by implication, all Americans) within the U.S. armed forces. Squealing like stuck pigs, disingenuously, that DADT's repeal represented a grave offense against their so-called "religious liberty", these reprehensibly homophobic Christian extremist predators created a virtual media cyclone of misinformation, disinformation, and bald-faced lies. As they say, "haters gonna hate."
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that this comment is responding to
Note to Hal:
In 1954 Jim Crow prevailed, Topeka schools were legally segregated, Communist witch hunts and blacklisting were accepted as the proper order, women could legally be denied employment on the basis of gender, Jackie Robinson was still openly taunted, the KKK, in the name of religion, terrorized communities, the US was in a frenzy to test nuclear weapons above-ground (thereby bombing ourselves), the French were killing and dying at Dienbienphu in a US financed war, the US backed a military coup in Guatemala....
Eisenhower would likely be appalled by the religious extremists that now populate the ranks. And that religion is supplanting merit as a basis for promotion in far too may instances would cause Ike to question everything from mission readiness to command and control. Hal, we’re not going back.
(name withheld)
May God have mercy on your soul for your unbelief. Don’t ever threaten me. You won’t like the outcome.
(name withheld)
I am not quite sure what you’re talking about? I do not believe that I have ever threatened you? I’m afraid that I do not even seem to remotely remember who you are?? Having said that, what do you mean "that I won’t like the outcome”? Kind of seems like you’re threatening me, doesn’t it?
Mikey Weinstein
I mean exactly what I mean. You know exactly what I mean and I do not fear you Mikey.
(name withheld)
Again, quite on the contrary, I actually do not know what you mean. Not in the slightest. Actually, I do not even know who you are? But we do get a lot of threats and are, thus, very used to it and so we will just add you to the list, little fellow.
Mikey Weinstein
Forgive me, Mikey. This is probably an intrusive and impertinent question. I was re-reading some of the most vicious hate mails in Bonnie’s book, especially those that wish you and your family gruesome deaths and eternity in Hell. Four or five of those emails state that she has Multiple Sclerosis but are (as usual) completely ignorant of the condition. The man I share my life with has relapsing/remitting MS, and we’ve had to make adaptations in our lives, as I’m sure you and Bonnie have. Our biggest problem is stress, so we’ve decided to hope and pray with Bonnie that your stress levels decrease soon.
With Warmest Regards,
(name withheld)
Hey guys, just read an article about your association on Reddit and I just wanted to say thank you for all you do for people who want to be free from religion in the armed forces. I may not be a full blown supporter of everything the military does but I do believe that no one should be forced to do anything religious against their will. I also read some of the mail you have received from Christian haters and I’m sorry that you all have to go through that. But anyway, keep up the good work! You’ll always have my support!
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