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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...
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“We Honor All Who Served on Veterans Day” — MRFF Board Member and retired U.S. Army Brigadier General John Compere on the history and observance of Veterans Day
“We Honor All Who Served on Veterans Day” — MRFF Board Member and retired U.S. Army Brigadier General John Compere on the history and observance of Veterans Day
“VETERANS DAY” is our annual national holiday on November 11th honoring military veterans. This recognition of our military veterans pays tribute to those patriotic men and women, living or deceased, ...
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November 11, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Must-Read Mikey Weinstein Interview on “A Further Inquiry” — How MRFF is Navigating a Military and VA Ordered to Root Out Imaginary “Anti-Christian Bias” 
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Must-Read Mikey Weinstein Interview on “A Further Inquiry” — How MRFF is Navigating a Military and VA Ordered to Root Out Imaginary “Anti-Christian Bias”
“... We have never seen so many high-ranking military officials reaching out to us. These are not just 18- or 19-year-old enlisted troops or junior officers fresh out of the academies, ROTC, Officer T...
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November 10, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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Active-Duty General Commends MRFF for Years of Defending the Military from “Dangerously Rampant” Christian Nationalism
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Appreciative message to MRFF from Active Duty Military General for Years of Standing Against “Dangerously Rampant” Christian Nationalism
From: (Active Duty Military General's E-mail Address Withheld)Subject: Message to MRFF from Military GeneralDate: November 2, 2025 at 10:33:35 AM MSTTo: Mikey Weinstein mikey@militaryreligiousfreedom....
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November 4, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Mother Jones Covers MRFF Antagonist Sean Duffy’s “Giant Jesus” PR Stunts; MRFF Advisory Board Member Attacked by Right-Wing “Real Clear Defense”
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Mother Jones Covers MRFF Antagonist Sean Duffy’s “Giant Jesus” PR Stunts; MRFF Advisory Board Member Attacked by Right-Wing “Real Clear Defense”
“Sean Duffy has spent most of his adult life as a professional attention-seeker. He is a former reality TV star, for one, and also a former Fox News host. Tough luck, then, that in the second Trump ad...
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October 31, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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MRFF Advisory Board Members and Mikey Weinstein Prominently Featured by Military. com in Tour de Force Article in the Wake of Hegseth’s Quantico Confab
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MRFF Advisory Board Members and Mikey Weinstein Prominently Featured by Military.com in Tour de Force Article in the Wake of Hegseth’s Quantico Confab
The gathering of the United States’ highest ranking generals and admirals at U.S. Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia on Sept. 30 was the “most bizarre thing I’ve seen in my time on Earth,” said La...
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October 30, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Leadership-Approved Antisemitism Now Openly Promoted at U.S. Naval Academy, Detailed by Retired Navy Chaplain in Email To MRFF’s Mikey Weinstein; MRFF Passes 100,000 Client Milestone
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Leadership-Approved Antisemitism Now Openly Promoted at U.S. Naval Academy, Detailed by Retired Navy Chaplain in Email To MRFF’s Mikey Weinstein; MRFF Passes 100,000 Client Milestone
“During the past 9 months, there has been a concerted and unmistakable effort to extinguish organized Jewish life at the United States Naval Academy. Notable public examples have included the cancella...
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October 24, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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Grateful National Guard soldier writes to Mikey Weinstein: “Without you and the Military Religious Freedom Foundation I would’ve definitely been in a worse place than I am now.”
Grateful National Guard soldier writes to Mikey Weinstein: “Without you and the Military Religious Freedom Foundation I would’ve definitely been in a worse place than I am now.”
From: (name withheld)Date: October 23, 2025 at 12:47:57 PM MDT)To: Mikey WeinsteinSubject: Thank You Mikey Weinstein, Thank you, Thank you for everything, Thank you for finding me, having my bac...
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October 23, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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MRFF Advisory Board Member Brig. Gen. USAF (Ret.) Marty France sends letter to Air Force Academy Superintendent Lt Gen Tony Bauernfeind after regulation-violating Turning Point USA meeting held at Academy
MRFF Advisory Board Member Brig. Gen. USAF (Ret.) Marty France sends letter to Air Force Academy Superintendent Lt Gen Tony Bauernfeind after regulation-violating Turning Point USA meeting held at Aca...
Dear General Bauernfeind, It has come to the attention of many of us in the graduate community that cadets at the United States Air Force Academy (USAFA) held an on-base meeting under the title of ...
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October 21, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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MRFF Advisory Board Member Brig. Gen. USAF (Ret.) Marty France Op-Ed Admonishes USAFA’s Slide Toward Partisanship and Authoritarianism
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MRFF Advisory Board Member Brig. Gen. USAF (Ret.) Marty France Op-Ed Admonishes USAFA’s Slide Toward Partisanship and Authoritarianism
Excerpt from Op-Ed: “...the Military Religious Freedom Foundation was founded and exists to this day—to remove the specter of religious bias from our military services. We can’t allow the same thre...
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October 17, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Senior Active Duty Officer and Long-Time MRFF Client Makes Painful Decision to Resign Their Commission, Unable to Support Hegseth’s Military
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Senior Active Duty Officer and Long-Time MRFF Client Makes Painful Decision to Resign Their Commission, Unable to Support Hegseth’s Military
“Mikey, thank you for the long talk on the phone the other day. Especially since you were in the hospital at the time recovering from surgery. Our discussion and the points you made to me were just so...
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October 16, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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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.
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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October 13, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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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.”
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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October 10, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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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
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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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October 7, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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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 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 <info@militaryreligiousfreedom.org> ...
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October 6, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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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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October 2, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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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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October 1, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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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
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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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September 29, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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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
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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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September 26, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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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
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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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September 25, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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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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September 23, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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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
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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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September 19, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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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
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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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September 12, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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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”
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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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September 10, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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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
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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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September 9, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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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.”
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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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September 8, 2025 at 8:38 PM