by Chris Rodda, MRFF Senior Research Director
Selected Article Excerpts:
- Well, it doesn’t get any clearer than this. In an article from the Baptist Press, the news arm of the Southern Baptist Convention, the Southern Baptists have finally come right out and admitted what we at the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) have known all along — they oppose religious equality in the U.S. military.
- The Baptist Press, like a number of other Christian news outlets, is currently reviving the nearly year old story about Air Force Academy’s outdoor worship area in response to recent events at the Academy, particularly the recent change made by the Academy regarding cadet participation in Franklin Graham’s Operation Christmas Child. Hey, they have to have some other juicy, if not quite true, examples of Christian persecution to generate some good outrage, right? And they also need someone to target as the big, bad anti-Christian boogeyman — and that would be Mikey Weinstein, the founder and president of MRFF. In fact, the main gist of Baptist Press article is that none of this horrible Christian persecution at the Air Force Academy is the Academy’s fault; it’s all the work of Weinstein.
- In reality, neither Mikey Weinstein nor MRFF are anti-Christian. Of MRFF’s 351 clients at the Air Force Academy, 316 are Christians themselves, both Protestants and Catholics.
