Crusader/USAF Painting: Thank You Mr. Weinstein and MRFF

Published On: May 31, 2013|Categories: MRFF's Inbox|1 Comment|

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Dear Mikey Weinstein and the Military Religious Freedom Foundation,

I want to send my deepest appreciation to you and your entire MRFF organization. I’m an NCO (Non-Commissioned Officer) stationed at Mountain Home AFB, Idaho, and I have been extremely disturbed and shocked by a clearly Christian picture of religious supremacy very prominently hanging in the dining facility of our Air Force Base. I was raised in a Christian home; however, this picture made me feel terribly uncomfortable, disheartened and disappointed. I and countless other Airmen were forced to look at this “Crusader/USAF” painting while we ate. We had no other choice. I believe the Department of Defense and the USAF shouldn’t be shamefully promoting a specific religion, and immediately removing this unconstitutional “Crusader/USAF” framed painting is one small step in overcoming the epidemic of out-of-control Christian religious extremism in our U.S. military. For the record, there are 21 other MRFF clients at Mountain Home AFB that came forward to you and the MRFF on this particular matter of outrage and 17 of them are either Protestant or Roman Catholic. None of us felt as though we could go to our command chains or to any other USAF agency to fix this matter without suffering either direct or indirect negative repercussions. Mikey and MRFF, thank you for so passionately representing everyone’s religious views and rights under the constitution, whether they are mostly Christian, as is the case here, or any and every other faith or even no faith!  Again, thank you for getting this Christian superiority painting so swiftly removed.

(USAF Non-Commissioned Officer’s name, rank, AFSC, and assigned USAF military unit all withheld)

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  1. Sara Meric June 8, 2013 at 11:42 am

    Mikey, on reading about this latest outrate, I tried to send the following email to Col. Short via the Mountain Home Web site, but it did not go through. Can you get it to him?
    Thanks:

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    This email is for Wing Commander Col. Short

    Dear Col. Short

    I applaud your swift action in removing from US Air Force property a symbol of a specific religious belief.

    That painting was a slap in the face of any Air Force personnel who did not adhere to the particular belief.

    I am a nice old lady who deeply loves my country and expects its defenders to respect our Constitution’s separation of church and state.

    Unfortunately, radical religious extremists have infiltrated the military to an alarming extent, and are fighting attempts by organizations like MRFF to make them respect the Constitution.

    So I make a point of reaching out to thank enlightened commanders like your good self who acts FAST when wrong-doing is brought to your attention.

    Sara Meric
    Santa Monica CA

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