Have you given ANY thought to the name of your organization???
Your organization only believes in freedom FROM religion. Is your next order of business attacking DeBlasio for supplying 500,000 Halal meals during Ramadan or do you just target certain religions??? All the problems in this world, and this is how you choose to spend your time, spreading hate???????????
(name withheld)
Response from MRFF Board Member John Compere
On Apr 27, 2020, at 10:40 PM, Mike wrote:
Dear (name withheld),
Yes, we’ve given a lot of thought to the name of our organization. You appear to be a bit confused.
I suspect your ire derives from the fact that you read a tract from Mr. Donohue that has made the rounds and given a number of people a lot of bad information. I’m sorry abut that as it has caused a storm of angry and ill-informed condemnation to come our way.
Mr. Donohue is wrong. He said, for example, that Mikey Weinstein is an “anti-Christian activist.” This is a lie. He said a bunch of other things that are not true. Let me explain the facts to you.
We agree that military personnel have every right to pray. We have no objection to prayer. We object to inappropriate proselytizing. You see, chaplains have a face book page whereon they can do all the praying and lecturing and teaching and enlightening they’d like. But that’s a separate page from that of the unit leader or commanding officer. The commander’s page may not be used to promote one particular belief system over others because doing so amounts to government endorsement of a particular faith and violates the separation of church and state.
The speeches were simply in the wrong place. Some complaints came to us, so we contacted the authorities at the base. They in turn looked at it, saw what was wrong and removed the speeches. No harm, no foul. I don’t know if the speeches were placed on the chaplain’s page where they belonged. I hope they were.
And I hope this helps you better understand the situation.
Mike Farrell
(MRFF Board of Advisors)
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