2/13/12 CSINDY – Weinstein will write in the Washington Post

Selected Article Excerpts:

• To say Mikey Weinstein has made a name for himself would be an understatement. Now the Washington Post will be giving its readers a steady dose of Weinstein’s message through a twice-monthly column called “Faith at the Front.”

• Since forming the Military Religious Freedom Foundation in 2004, the 1977 Air Force Academy grad has become the watchdog for unconstitutional imposition of religion on military members. His organization represents tens of thousands of soldiers, airmen and sailors, including more than 300 cadets, faculty and staff at the Air Force Academy.

• Anyway, you get the picture. Weinstein and his organization are credible. So it’s peculiar why the Gazette would report on Saturday that everything seems to be going well at the academy on the religion front. Reporter Jakob Rodgers, a cops reporter recently assigned to cover the military, reported that the academy’s Board of Visitors was told the academy would be providing training to faculty on religious sensitivity.

• What’s missing from the story is a comment from Weinstein […] Turns out, Rodgers interviewed Weinstein on Friday but decided not to include him in his story. We asked Rodgers and weekend editor Tom Roeder why he left Weinstein out of his report, and Roeder declined to comment.

• In case you’re wondering, here’s what Weinstein says he told Rodgers: “I told him that first of all, I didn’t want to hear anything related to the faculty reception to religious tolerance when the head of the faculty has lied about her calling for a counter insurgency to my organization,” he tells us, referring to Dean of Faculty Brig. Gen. Dana Born.

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