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This post was created on the previous version of the MRFF website, and may not be fully accessible to users of assistive technology. If you need help accessing this content, please reach out via email.Strange how part of you “title” contains the word “freedom” yet you aggressively CHOOSE to persecute anyone who disagrees with your “thoughts”! As my husband always says – that’s what you get for doing you own thinking! How dare you seek vengeance against the Lt. Col. who mentioned God in his speech! Praise The Lord for him, his service to our country (I dare say none of your organization has served this country) and his words. God’s truth is His truth! Whether you CHOOSE to believe or not is irrelevant to God. What is relevant is your salvation & where you CHOOSE to spend eternity! When all of you breath your last EVERY human being is absent from the body present with The Lord. You each WILL stand before God & if you do not have a personal relationship with Jesus, you WILL be judged, you WILL spend ALL eternity separated from God & will be in hell! Your choice – choose wisely! The Lt. Col. did choose wisely – your organization has not! Don’t believe it oh well!
(name withheld)
Dear (name withheld),
Strange how people, such as yourself, seem to know all about Mikey and the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) and what he’s thinking.
As an ordained minister, I find your attack on Mikey and the rest of us involved with the MRFF, lacking any Christian value.
We are not an atheist organization nor are we anti-Christian. Mikey is Jewish and 75% of the Board, Advisory Board, volunteers and supporters of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) which numbers 200, are Christians. In fact, 96% of our 41,000+ soldier clients (1 can represent up to 50 and 1 represents 100) are Christians. So, we fight for the rights of Christians more than any other religion.
MRFF does not act on its own but at the request of a soldier or soldiers’ complaints of the blatant disregard and trampling of the Constitution and the Military Code of Justice; blurring the lines between the separation of church and state. Every complaint is vetted by Mikey who was a JAG lawyer at the Air Force Academy for 10 years; worked in the West Wing under Ronald Reagan; and held positions in private practice.
We also rely on our military supporters for their expertise in all matters concerning the military and religion. To name just a few that you may heard of:
Board Member – Major William E. Barker
Board Member – Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV
Advisory Board Member – Lawrence Wilkerson – Secretary of State Colin Powell’s Chief of Staff (2002-05).
“I dare say none of your organization has served this country”
Really? Besides the fact that all of our clients are serving this country, check out all of the honorable military personnel on our Advisory Board:
Let me clear up some facts that the media is deliberately withholding from you.
The issue is that he showed up in uniform at a civilian event.
The National Day of Prayer Task Force is not the National Day of Prayer signed into law by President Truman in 1952.
The National Day of Prayer is celebrated by Americans of many religions, including Christians of many denominations, including Protestants and Cath
The National Day of Prayer Task Force is strictly a conservative evangelical Christian organization called the “National Prayer Committee” that was formed to coordinate and implement a fixed annual day of prayer for the purpose of organizing evangelical Christian prayer events with local, state, and federal government entities.
The National Day of Prayer is sanctioned by the government where the National Day of Prayer Task Force is not.
If he had showed up in civilian clothes there wouldn’t have been a problem.
Parker v. Levy:
“This Court has long recognized that the military is, by necessity, a specialized society separate from civilian society… While the members of the military are not excluded from the protection granted by the First Amendment, the different character of the military community and of the military mission requires a different application of those protections. … The fundamental necessity for obedience, and the consequent necessity for imposition of discipline, may render permissible within the military that which would be constitutionally impermissible outside it… Speech [to include religious speech] that is protected in the civil population may nonetheless undermine the effectiveness of response to command. If it does, it is constitutionally unprotected.” (Emphasis added) Parker v. Levy, 417 U.S. 733, 1974
Our military consists of those of other beliefs and by giving his speech on Christianity in uniform – which gives the impression to the world that we have a Christian military – demeans the morale of those of other faiths. His speech is constitutionally unprotected.
Air Force Instruction 1-1, Section 2.12:
2.12. Balance of Free Exercise of Religion and Establishment Clause. Leaders
at all levels must balance constitutional protections for their own free exercise of
religion, including individual expressions of religious beliefs, and the constitutional
prohibition against governmental establishment of religion. They must ensure their
words and actions cannot reasonably be construed to be officially endorsing
or disapproving of, or extending preferential treatment for any faith, belief, or absence of belief. (emphasis added)
The violation of this – by speaking in uniform – is a potential FELONY under the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
Civilian laws and military rules and regulations are different.
Because Major General Craig S. Olson showed up in uniform to give his speech, he is also providing an unlawful endorsement and selective benefit to a non-Federal entity
(the NDPTF, which is a private organization), in violation of both the Joint Ethics Regulation (DoD 5500.7-R) prohibition on endorsement of non-Federal entities and DoD Instruction 5410.19, which prohibits the providing of a selective benefit or preferential treatment to any private organization.
Don’t believe the above information? Oh, well.
You will stand before God and be judged, too.
But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned. (Matthew 12:36-37)
Idle: lazy, shunning the labor which one ought to perform
You were lazy in not checking out who we are, what we really do and what we stand for, so your whole email is full of nothing but idle words.
Don’t believe you will be judged on this email? Oh, well.
Pastor Joan
MRFF Advisory Board Member
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