Wheaton College

Mikey,

Let Mikey comment on it, he doesn’t like anything Christian.

Christian colleges have the right to establish the faith requirements of all of its faculty …. ROTC related or not.

To do what you are demanding could lead to a hater of Christians like you teaching at the college and they can’t allow that and you know that don’t you Mikey?

The real goal is to stop ROTC programs at Christian colleges so you can continue your campaign to “de-God” the military.

Mikey, Mikey ….. what a hater you are and stop hiding your Christian hate march behind the U.S. Constitution. It belittles you even more.

(name withheld)
Republic of Arizona

Dear citizen of the Republic of Arizona,

Perhaps the Constitution of the United States doesn’t fit into your personal conception of
appropriate behavior now that you so define yourself, but it still does, whether you like
it or not, here in the rest of the country.

Believing in the separation of church and state, as did many of the founders of this nation,
does not make one anti-religious, nor, by definition, does it make one anti-Christian. All of
the Christians and all of the other believers of various faiths who work with and support
the MRFF find it mind-boggling that people like you are so deeply defensive about your
own belief that you cannot understand such a simple fact.

The MRFF believes, as the law indicates, that the government in all its forms, honors and
protects the right of Americans (even you) to believe as they choose. That right is ensured
by insisting that the government, of which the military is part, cannot promote, either
openly or by inference, one religion over another.

Neither Mikey nor the MRFF as an organization hates Christianity. To do so would be
antithetical to everything we are about and would insult the 95% of our members and
supporters who are themselves Christians – some of them clergy.

Because the ROTC is supported and endorsed by the U.S. military it is, by extension,
part of our government. Therefore it cannot be openly espousing one religious faith over
another. I realize that may be hard to comprehend by one who sees himself a citizen of
a sovereign republic, and, unless I miss my guess an overly defensive Christian, but it
is nonetheless the case.

No one here is trying to “de-God” the military. In fact, we’re trying to protect the right of
all the women and men in the military to believe as they choose and not have a particular
faith, no matter how zealously believed, forced upon them.

The inability to understand the difference between this reality and the fantasy you have
cooked up for yourself and spewed here is a very sad self-indictment.

Mike Farrell
(MRFF Board of Advisors)