FEATURED CLIENT TESTIMONIAL – Thank you from an Overseas Soldier

Dear Mikey,

> This email is to thank the good people of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation for their help resolving a recent issue of enormous Constitutional consequences for my military unit. I am a company-grade officer serving in a potentially volatile OCONUS (overseas) location. We were recently informed that an evangelical preacher was being brought to our specific area, and were told by our senior command leadership that our attendance would be absolutely mandatory. Worse, after a cursory search on the preacher in question, I was astounded to see some of the things he happily professed: that secularism was the root of all of Americas ills, posts denigrating President Obama who is our commander-in-chief, and advocating for a definition of leadership that determined one’s success based on how deeply one accepted Jesus Christ as one’s personal lord and savior.
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> Needless to say, I and so many of my fellow Soldiers were shocked and deeply concerned. I wanted my unit to respect Soldiers of all faith backgrounds (or lack thereof). That said, I also didn’t want to cause negative publicity for my unit. I emailed MRFF outlining the situation and my concerns, and was stunned to receive an email back within a few minutes from the head of the MRFF, Mikey Weinstein, himself. After correspondence back and forth by both email and phone (much of which was very late at night for Mikey), MRFF immediately went to work for myself and the countless other members of our very large military unit concerned by this potential, serious Constitutional breach as well as violations of military regulations. Very quickly we received the incredible word that, due to MRFF’s decisive advocacy on our behalf, all the events were now non-mandatory and that official attendance would not be taken. And throughout the process, my anonymity and the anonymity of my fellow service members was completely protected.
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> So, again, thank you to the MRFF. Their hard work and dedication has ensured that our civil rights were protected. To my fellow service members out there who face similar kinds of illegal religious dictates from their leadership, based on this recent experience I can say with full confidence that the MRFF will provide you with the outstanding assistance they provided us.
V/R
(U.S. Army Officer’s name, rank, MOS, assigned unit and military installation withheld)