Military Religious Freedom Foundation

“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...

“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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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> ...

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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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...

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

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 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...

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’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...

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 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...

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 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...

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

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 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...

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 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 ...

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 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.” ...

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’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...

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 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 ...

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 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... "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

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

"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...

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

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

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 Recommended Repulsive Read: The Guardian — "How Pete Hegseth's Zeal to Bring Religiosity to the Pentagon is Dividing the Military" 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 ...

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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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...

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’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...

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 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...

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 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...

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.”

The Friendly Atheist notes MRFF’s 2019 victory barring official military emblems on Bible verse dog tags in: “Bowing to religious pressure, West Point will rebrand bibles with academy’s crest” You may recall a similar controversy occurred in 2019 when a private company sold replica dog tags that had the military branches’ logos on one side and a Bible verse on the other. The Military Religi...

The Friendly Atheist notes MRFF’s 2019 victory barring official military emblems on Bible verse dog tags in: “Bowing to religious pressure, West Point will rebrand bibles with academy’s crest”

MRFF Victory! MRFF Action Leads to Swift Removal of Advertisement on MCB Quantico’s Facebook Page for Christian Speaker Saved from Alcoholism by Jesus “It is clearly an establishment of one particular religious faith, Protestant Christianity, when it is promoted on your main page with a comment telling MCB Quantico personnel to attend a Protestant ...

MRFF Victory! MRFF Action Leads to Swift Removal of Advertisement on MCB Quantico’s Facebook Page for Christian Speaker Saved from Alcoholism by Jesus
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MRFF Revolted by tRump's Directive; Under New Rules Federal Employees Can Pray and Preach in the Workplace as Reported by Politico Covering MRFF "Today's latest Nazi directives out of the tRump regime's Office of Personnel Management, which controls essentially all civilians in all U.S. government agencies, erases the final obstacle for civili...

MRFF Revolted by tRump’s Directive; Under New Rules Federal Employees Can Pray and Preach in the Workplace as Reported by Politico Covering MRFF
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One Day — Two MRFF Victories! Air Force Academy Finally Responds to FOIA Requests After MRFF Files Lawsuit; 3-Star General Facilitates Investigation of Christians-Only Prayer at Graduation VICTORY #1: In October 2022, MRFF submitted three FOIA requests to the Air Force Academy. For nearly three years, the Academy stonewalled MRFF, with delay after delay and excuse after excuse for no...

One Day — Two MRFF Victories! Air Force Academy Finally Responds to FOIA Requests After MRFF Files Lawsuit; 3-Star General Facilitates Investigation of Christians-Only Prayer at Graduation
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Client who contacted MRFF late on a Friday night and had action taken by Monday morning writes: “It’s reassuring to know there are people who move with urgency and principle” From: (MRFF Client’s email address withheld)Subject: Thank You for the Quick ResponseDate: July 22, 2025 at 7:27:54 AM MDTTo: "mikey@militaryreligiousfreedom.org" <mikey@militaryreligiousfreedom.org> ...

Client who contacted MRFF late on a Friday night and had action taken by Monday morning writes: “It’s reassuring to know there are people who move with urgency and principle”

MRFF Covered in Newsweek Lead Article on Supreme Court Potentially Ruling on Ten Commandments in Schools, Possibly Impacting DoD Public Schools “The point is that the 6-3 majority on the Supreme Court will decide what they want and then try to rationalize it. So, it's useless to look at any of the prior cases. I fully expect the Supreme Court...

MRFF Covered in Newsweek Lead Article on Supreme Court Potentially Ruling on Ten Commandments in Schools, Possibly Impacting DoD Public Schools
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Long-time MRFF supporter Rabbi Joel Schwartzman reacts to MRFF’s federal lawsuit against Air Force Academy over FOIA request regarding the Academy’s scheduling important training on Yom Kippur From: Rabbi Joel SchwartzmanSubject: RE: MRFF Files Federal Lawsuit Against U.S. Air Force Academy After Almost Three Years of FOIA Request ObstructionDate: July 15, 2025 at 6:44:46 AM MDTTo: "info@mi...

Long-time MRFF supporter Rabbi Joel Schwartzman reacts to MRFF’s federal lawsuit against Air Force Academy over FOIA request regarding the Academy’s scheduling important training on Yom Kippur