MRFF Continues to Provide Rapid & Effective Assistance to Military Members Subjected to SecDef Hegseth’s Unconstitutional Christian Nationalist Emboldened Minions

August 19, 2025

MRFF’s long history of defending U.S. Military members continues to hold strong in the face of the desired (…and blatantly unconstitutional) Christian Nationalist dreams of SecDef Petey Hegseth. As a result of MRFF’s informal network of clients, two new clients were emboldened to contact MRFF when another client recommended they contact MRFF President/Founder Mikey Weinstein to help them defend their constitutionally guaranteed civil liberty of religious freedom.

One of the two new MRFF clients emailed Mikey for assistance in responding to their shift supervisor’s pressure to attend bible studies in the supervisor’s government funded office three times a week:

From: (Active Duty U.S. Navy Sailor’s e-mail address withheld)
Subject: Our Navy supervisor’s Bible studies
Date: August 19, 2025 at 8:06:22 AM MDT
To: Michael L Weinstein  <[email protected]>

Thank you to the MRFF for getting me and my buddy out of having to go to my military shift supervisor’s Bible studies held Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings in our shift supervisor’s office. They are not officially “mandatory” but if you don’t go this will be held against you by our supervisor who can jack you up and make life miserable.

I am a junior enlisted sailor in the US Navy. I was raised Christian, non-dominational. My buddy who is also a junior enlisted sailor is Jewish.

We did not know where to go to get help from this but one of the other officers in our unit gave us the number for the MRFF. She said the MRFF helped her 8 years ago in a similar matter.

We both spoke to Mr. Weinstein who immediately contacted naval personnel in our chain of command.

While we are now excused from attending this Bible study it is still going on and I know for a fact that other sailors don’t want to attend but feel they have no choice. We have advised them to contact the MRFF as well.

The MRFF is also helping us all file an IG and maybe also an EEO complaint but we don’t expect much to happen there. Except maybe revenge against us but we will call the MRFF for help if that happens.

Thank you to the MRFF for getting us out of this and being there to take our phone call in the late evening hours.

(Active Duty U.S. Navy Sailor’s name, unit, job rating, and installation all withheld)

Our other client subjected to this Hegseth inspired and blatantly unconstitutional attempt to create a ‘Religious Test’ within the U.S. Military (…attempting to force a particular religion down the throats of subordinates) sent the following thank you email:

From: (Active Duty Soldier’s e-mail address withheld)
Subject: Thank You Letter
Date: August 19, 2025 at 1:12:42 PM MDT
To: Michael L Weinstein  <[email protected]>

Thank you Mikey Weinstein.

Mikey answered my call while he was out at lunch! He dropped everything and got me set up for success, empowering me with the tools to stand up for my religious beliefs.

I am a Jewish active duty soldier, who is facing reprisal from my company command team for sticking by my deeply held religious beliefs.

If you are a servicemember that has a chain of command doesn’t care about your beliefs, or your religious practices, you can rest assured Mikey will do everything he can to make it right!

Very Respectfully,

(Active Duty Soldier’s name withheld)

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