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Wednesday, July 18, 2018

MRFF Information/Contact: (505)-250-7727


MRFF THANKS USAF
WING COMMANDER FOR
VALIANT ACTION AGAINST
RELIGIOUS FAVORITISM

Photoshopped book for illustrative purposes; Bible to be replaced by generic book, with blank pages, representing all faiths/non-faiths

MRFF's Efforts Lead to Bible Replacement at F.E. Warren AFB, Special Thanks to Colonel Stacy J. Huser, Wing Commander of the
90th Missile Wing at F.E.
Warren Air Force Base (AFB)

Email Exchange: May - July 2018

Original Complaint, Followed By Productive Email Exchange Between Mikey Weinstein & Colonel Stacy J. Huser, Wing Commander of the 90th Missile Wing at F.E. Warren Air Force Base

From: MRFF Client's E-Mail Address Withheld
Subject: Fwd: Bible missing person table
Date: May 17, 2018 at 9:38:19 PM MDT
To: Mikey Weinstein

I wish to transfer all rights, title, and interest for the attached photo of a missing person table located at Chadwell Dining Facility at FE Warren AFB to the Military Religious Freedom Foundation.
The photo was taken this morning, 17 May 2018 at 0740. I wish to remain anonymous. I am (current military status withheld) [ ] the Air Force. I was raised Catholic and attended Catholic School in grades 3-6. I converted to (religious faith withheld) to honor my father, a genetic (religious ethnicity withheld) when I was in my (age range withheld). My father was adopted and the information about his heritage did not surface until I was an adult. I have been (religious preference or no-preference withheld) for many years.

Respectfully,
(name, rank, military status and all other ID Information withheld)

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From: Mikey Weinstein
Subject: FE Warren AFB: Bible missing person table
Date: May 18, 2018 at 5:52:22 PM MDT
To: 90 MW/PA Public Affairs

...2Lt. Thorpe, plz kindly and expeditiously pass the below along to Col. Stacy Huser soonest...MRFF presently has 31 USAF clients, including the client below, under Col. Huser’s direct command in the 90th MW whom we are representing on this matter...19 of them are either practicing Protestants or Roman Catholics...the others identify as being either Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, as well as several who are atheists, agnostics, secularists, humanists or deists...thank you...Mikey Weinstein...Founder and Pres., MRFF 505-250-7727

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From: 90 MW/PA Public Affairs
Subject: Response to Query
Date: May 18, 2018 at 4:52:33 PM MDT
To: Mikey Weinstein

Good Afternoon Mr. Weinstein,

Thank you for reaching out to the public affairs office with your concerns.
Please see the attached letter from Col Stacy Jo Huser.
If possible, please consider this your response before the weekend.

Thank you,

V/R,
NIKITA G. THORPE, 2d Lt, USAF
90th Missile Wing Public Affairs
F.E. Warren AFB, Wyo.
Comm: 307-773-3381
DSN: 481-3381

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From: Michael L Weinstein
Date: July 15, 2018 at 5:50:02 PM MDT
To: 90 MW/PA Public Affairs
Subject: FE Warren AFB Bible Still Illicitly Displayed?!

2LT. Nikita G. Thorpe, the pictures below were recently taken by MRFF clients at your installation's dining facility... Colonel Stacy Jo Huser, Commander 90th Missile Wing, Air Force Global Strike Command at F.E. Warren AFB, Wyoming, wrote to me by letter, in an email transmitted to me by you, in mid-May (May 18, 2018) kindly taking MRFF's complaint under advisement & further assuring me that she was looking into this unfortunate matt... Two months later and we’ve heard nothing bac... However, the Constitutionally-offending bible is still quite prominently displayed on the POW/MIA table in direct defiance of Air Force instruction 1-1, Section 2.12 to say nothing of the United States Constitution, it's construing Federal and State caselaw as well as additional Department of Defense and US Air Force directives instructions and regulations...?...Our MRFF clients under Col. Huser's command remain resolute in their most fervent objection to this blatant display of fundamentalist Christian supremacy, domination and exceptionalism... Please kindly advise ASAP before we move on to other steps...... Thank you... Mikey Weinstein... Founder and President, Military Religious Freedom Foundation... Standing by at 505-250-7727...

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From: Michael L Weinstein
Sent: Monday, July 16, 2018 5:04 PM
To: HUSER, STACY J Col USAF AFGSC 90 MW/CC
Subject: [Non-DoD Source] Gratitude

....Stacy, wanted to thank you so much for the personal phone call today... Will standby for your communication later this week that the measures to remediate the formidable unconstitutional issues attended to the continued placement of that Christian Bible on the POW/MIA table at the FE Warren dining facility has been taken care of... As per our conversation... Deeply respect your leadership in this matter and tremendously also appreciate that phone call this morning... Will standby... most gratefully, Mikey... 505-250-7727...

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On Jul 17, 2018, at 7:54 AM, HUSER, STACY J Col USAF AFGSC 90 MW/CC wrote:

Mr. Weinstein -

[...]

I'm grateful they [MRFF's current 36 USAF clients at F.E. Warren AFB] felt comfortable contacting you for your advocacy.  Our chaplains are purchasing a generic "book of faith" on Thursday and will let me know when that book is expected to arrive.  Until it arrives, I've asked them to rotate the book placed on the table (rotate it through various faiths).  Yesterday they placed the Book of Mormon on the table.  I will contact you again when our permanent "book of faith" is on display.

Thank you again for taking care of our Airmen.  One of my focus areas is increasing a sense of belonging for all our Airmen a large part of that effort is ensuring that the religious and non-religious feel included and cared for.

Take care -
Stacy

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From:
Michael L Weinstein
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2018 8:11 AM
To: HUSER, STACY J Col USAF AFGSC 90 MW/CC
Subject: Re: [Non-DoD Source] Gratitude

Thanks SO much, Stacy... Appreciate the actions you're taking here...Naturally, some of our USAF clients concerns on even having a "book of faith" on that table is that it would likely still alienate those who provide excellent service to the United States Air Force, the Department of Defense and our country but claim NO "faith" whatsoever... Atheists, agnostics, humanists, secularists...I have never heard of a generic book of faith and I'm concerned that it might still be slanted towards the majority faith in this country; Christianity?! You know... that being the case, would it be possible to have that "generic book the faith" simply have blank pages in it as some of the other installations have done?...With great respect and gratitude, Mikey

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On Jul 17, 2018, at 8:18 AM, HUSER, STACY J Col USAF AFGSC 90 MW/CC wrote:

Yes sir, my understanding is that is exactly what it is.  It's more like a journal with blank pages like you describe.  That way we aren't emphasizing a particular faith, or any religion at all.  I'm glad to hear other installations are doing the same!

-Stacy

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From: Michael L Weinstein
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2018 8:23 AM
To: HUSER, STACY J Col USAF AFGSC 90 MW/CC
Subject: Re: [Non-DoD Source] Gratitude

Oh, that is just FANTASTIC, Stacy!... If you would please be so kind as to advise after the following two things;(1) regarding what other faith's book besides the Mormon faith will be rotated through that POW/MIA table and, (2), when that "generic book of faith" is placed on the table... So very appreciative, Mikey... 505-250-7727

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On Jul 17, 2018, at 8:32 AM, HUSER, STACY J Col USAF AFGSC 90 MW/CC wrote:

I sure will!  Thanks again for looking out for our Airmen!!

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From: Michael L Weinstein
Date: July 17, 2018 at 8:34:22 AM MDT
To: "HUSER, STACY J Col USAF AFGSC 90 MW/CC"
Subject: Re: [Non-DoD Source] Gratitude

You bet, Stacy!... Saluting you here, facing north, from Albuquerque New Mexico!


THE YOUNG TURKS (TYT) NETWORK COVERS MRFF

(The Fellowship Foundation, Organizers of National Prayer Breakfast, Has Been On MRFF's Radar For Over A Decade)

"Prayer Group in Russia Case
Had Envoy to Eastern Europe
in GOP Congressman"

Tuesday, July 17, 2018

By: Ken Klippenstein | TYT Network
Date: July 17, 2018

A secretive Christian political group alluded to in Monday's criminal complaint against an alleged Russian agent sent a conservative Christian congressman on multiple trips to eastern European nations friendly with Russia, federal records show.

[...]

The National Prayer Breakfast is organized by The Fellowship Foundation, a Christian group based in Washington that is famously secretive. Its members take a vow of silence about Fellowship activities.

[...]

Russian President Vladimir Putin's stands on a range of issues from Islamic terrorism to gay rights have won him fans among America's conservative evangelical community. The number of Russians attending the National Prayer Breakfast reportedly has increased sharply in recent years.

[...]

"If Russia is doing this, [the National Prayer Breakfast] would be a fabulous way to meet these people, the people who are propping up Trump," Mikey Weinstein, president of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, told TYT. Weinstein, who has researched the group in the past, said that it skews heavily toward Republican evangelicals.

"Everyone who's anyone who has the requisite fundamentalist views wants to be there," Weinstein said. "This is the Super Bowl."

In addition to meetings alluded to in the affidavit, and the trips to eastern Europe, the Fellowship may also have significant business interests in Russia, one author who has written about the Fellowship told TYT.

Jeff Sharlet is an American investigative journalist who wrote a detailed report on the Fellowship for Harper's Magazine and later wrote a book on it.

[...]

Click to read more on tytnetwork.com

Click to read Harper's Magazine Cover
Story Featuring Mikey Weinstein,
by: Jeff Sharlet, May 2009


MRFF LEGAL COUNSEL,
VINCENT J. WARD,
SENDS LETTER TO ARMY
FOIA OFFICER RE:
FT. CAMPBELL'S FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH MRFF
FOIA REQUEST

Tuesday, July 17, 2018



Click to read full letter

Background Information On MRFF/Ft. Campbell


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We receive an enormous amount of emails at the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, both from our supporters and detractors.
Through "MRFF's Inbox", we share some of these emails with you.

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"Romans 11"

Saturday, July 7, 2018

St. Paul speaking to the Roman believers regarding Godless Jews:
 
28 Concerning the gospel they are enemies for your sake, but concerning the election they are beloved for the sake of the fathers. 29 For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.  
Romans 11:28-29 New King James Version (NKJV)
 
Saul also persecuted the church, until he met Jesus, King of the Jews.  May He bring you down off your high horse, my brother.
Please use this link for information for faith-based, EDL masters:
 
https://calbaptist.edu/programs/leadership-faith-based-schools/
 
Use the following for class login: https://calbaptist.webex.com
 
3 John 1:4   I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.   Isaiah 54:13  All your children shall be taught by the Lord, And great shall be the peace of your children.
(name withheld)

[...]

Click to read MRFF responses in Inbox

"You are"

Tuesday July 3, 2018

Date: July 3, 2018
To: [email protected]
Subject: You are

Hi after ready your information and what you stand for One Question You and your organization are denieing my right to practice my religious rights and the Constitution say the government will make no law against the free  practice of religion which they way you are doing things you are in violation the the Constitution and the very ideas that founded this country. Your latest efforts against Chaplains is in clear violation of there Constitutional rights. 

(name withheld)

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"The Importance of MRFF for Civil and Religious Liberty"

Tuesday, July 3, 2018

From: Senior U.S. Navy Christian Chaplain's E-Mail Address Withheld
Subject: The Importance of MRFF for Civil and Religious Liberty
Date: July 3, 2018
To: Mikey Weinstein

I am a senior Navy Christian Chaplain and have been an admirer of MRFF for many years. I have watched and read about the cases that Mikey and MRFF have administratively prosecuted, litigated and military members that they have otherwise served and have always been impressed.

What MRFF does is important for the civil and religious rights and freedoms of all Americans, even people that routinely oppose them and the causes of those that they represent. This is because they understand just how precious religious liberty is to all.

[...]

Click to read in MRFF Inbox

MRFF's Fast, Positive Effect
On My Case

Saturday, July 7, 2018

From: Senior Christian Active Duty Military Chaplain's E-Mail Address Withheld
SubjectMRFF’s Fast, Positive Effect On My Case
Date: July 7, 2018
To: Mikey Weinstein

I am a senior military chaplain of the Christian faith who was accused by a member of my congregation of Conduct Unbecoming an Officer and Contempt for the President of the United States for the content of a sermon preached during the Christian worship service I conducted very recently in my military base chapel. Instead of coming to me to discuss his complaint, he went directly to my Commander who was obligated to launch a preliminary investigation regarding the charges. When the Investigating Officer called me in to make a statement I demurred and said I that would only make a statement if I was represented by legal counsel. The complainant was a conservative Christian older retiree and avid supporter of President Trump. Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson and the organizer of the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials wrote about men just like...

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