Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Pentagon refuses to turn over records of communications with controversial anti-Christian activist

Mikey Weinstein
WASHINGTON, D.C., October 2, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The government watchdog group Judicial Watch has sued the Pentagon after it failed to respond by the June 18 deadline to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request it filed in May demanding the Department of Defense turn over all records of communication between the Pentagon and Mikey Weinstein, a controversial atheist activist who has been meeting with Pentagon officials in an advisory role since the earliest days of the Obama administration. 

Weinstein, whom Defense News called one of the “100 Most Influential People in U.S. Defense,” is the founder and president of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF). According to Defense News, the organization “Advocat[es] for secularism in the military” and “campaign[s] against public prayer and proselytizing by Air Force officers.”  He has compared practicing Christians to Nazis and terrorist groups, called for a ban on Christian prayer in the military, and said that soldiers who attempt to share the Gospel with others are guilty of “sedition and treason” and “spiritual rape.”  (more...)

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