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We all know and love <\/del>Mikey Weinstein’s My Way or the Highway<\/del>\u00a0 \u00a0Religion Only The Way I See It<\/del> inaptly named Military Religious Freedom Foundation. Have a picture Mikey doesn’t like? Gotta go. Quote a Bible verse? Definitely verboten. To add to thebesig’s article Saturday, one of the provisions in the House forbids service members from contacting the MRFF, and says commanders cannot take steps based on MRFF complaints. (One must suppose that last is aimed squarely at the Merchant Marine Academy head, who covered a painting of sailors at see at Mikey’s request and drew the wrath of Ted Cruz forthwith.)<\/p>\n

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The amendment, slipped into the House version of the defense authorization bill by Rep. Mike Turner, R-Ohio, would forbid service members from contacting the Military Religious Freedom Foundation or its leadership. The legislation would also bar commanders from taking \u201cany action or making any decision as a result of any claim, objection or protest\u201d made by the group \u201cwithout the authority of the Secretary of Defense.\u201d<\/p>\n

MRFF\u2019s founder, Mikey Weinstein, described the provision\u2019s progression to the Senate as the \u201cPearl Harbor\u201d in a far-right campaign to erode the rights of military personnel.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Military Times<\/a><\/p>\n

MT describes MRFF as a “religious freedom” and “Civil rights group”. Seems to me Mikey is more of a born-again atheist who wants no possible mention of any religion he disagrees with – seems I recall he notoriously campaigned to have ‘missing man’ table displays removed at several bases.<\/p>\n

Mikey is, of course, protesting and plans to have the relevant sections of the bill deleted. I think he has a 50\/50 chance – forbidding commanders to act without higher-up say-so is actually fairly reasonable. Forbidding service members to even talk to MRFF? Pretty shaky, and honestly does need to go away.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve been told by Senate staff and even senators that they\u2019re not sure that all of the toxic cancer put in by the fundamentalist Christian nationalists in the House will be able to be found in conference,\u201d Weinstein said of the difficulties involved with weeding out certain sections of the NDAA.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s always funny to me that you never see Mikey and company get their knickers twisted over anything but what they perceive as Christianity. You would think they could find something to object to in Islam, Judaism, Pastafarianism, somebody<\/em> else. Apparently all the others are flawless? Oh, and Mikey – good luck telling the Sikhs they can’t wear their turbans.\u00a0 Or tell a Gurkha they can’t have their kukris. We’d all LOVE to see that.<\/p>\n

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