CHURCH & STATE (AMERICANS UNITED) – AU Grants Awards To Weinstein And Schultz For Upholding Freedom
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- An activist for religious liberty rights in the military and a high school student who stood up for church-state separation in Texas were honored by Americans United for Separation of Church and State during a special ceremony Nov. 7.
- Americans United bestowed its first-ever “Person of the Year Award” on Michael L. “Mikey” Weinstein, founder and president of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation. Weinstein has worked doggedly to protect the church-state wall in the military and ensure that the rights of all service personnel are protected.
- Weinstein discussed the difficulties he has encountered forming the MRFF and the opposition his activities have sparked.
“It’s hard to speak truth to power,” Weinstein said. “Most people have trouble doing that. It is very hard to become the tarantula on the wedding cake by speaking out.”
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As Mikey says, speaking truth to power is hard, and most of us never do it except on an extremely low level. For many years I believed that the wall of separation was so obviously necessary and accepted that I never thought I would be called upon to help maintain it. I served three years in the Army and was never approached about my religious practice or lack thereof. So it was with a mixture of surprise and appreciation when I discovered AU, and now seeing AU honor MRFF at just about the time when I became aware of the danger at hand. Hard as it is to speak out against those who deleriously want to be governed by theocracy and those who want a new Christian crusade to subjugate the world, it is also hard to accept my own unpreparedness, inopportunity, and inablity to perform as Barry and Mikey do. I have to be content to support them by paying attention and support their work by donating whatever I can. It is a small thing, but it is something, and by doing this for a time, I may be able to do a little more in the future.