Thursday Afternoon, April 14, 2022
MRFF VICTORY!!!
MRFF SWIFTLY STOPS GOOD FRIDAY
LOWERING OF THE AMERICAN FLAG
“IN HONOR OF THE EASTER BLOOD
SACRIFICE OF OUR SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST”


"Thank you for the great help in responding to our ...
Section Chief’s attempt to have the American flag located
outside of our HQ Building ... lowered at half staff this coming
Good Friday 'in honor of the Easter blood sacrifice of our
savior Jesus Christ' as our boss told us he planned to do."

— One of MRFF's 26 clients who came to MRFF to stop
the outrageously Christian nationalistic act of lowering
the American flag in honor of Jesus' death
Flag at half staff
Email of gratitude from one of MRFF's 26 clients
who came to MRFF to stop the outrageously
Christian nationalistic act of lowering the
American flag in honor of Jesus' death

From: Active Duty Member and MRFF Client’s E-mail Address Withheld
Subject: Lowering American flag for Jesus
Date: April 13, 2022 at 5:02:14 PM MDT
To: Information Weinstein <mikey@militaryreligiousfreedom.org>

MRFF,

Thank you for the great help in responding to our (military branch name withheld) Section Chief’s attempt to have the American flag located outside of our HQ Building here at (name of military installation withheld) lowered at half staff this coming Good Friday “in honor of the Easter blood sacrifice of our savior Jesus Christ” as our boss told us he planned to do.

Our local MRFF rep. put us in touch with Mikey Weinstein who then immediately made some phone calls up our chain of command and our Section Chief was formally counseled and the flag will not be lowered.

There are 26 of us in our Section who comprise the group which asked for MRFF’s help and 17 of us are Christians. I am not. I am Jewish which the Section Chief like to always call me “one of the Chosen” which angers me and my colleagues. Mikey Weinstein got that stopped as well.

Thank you for successfully fighting for us on this unfortunate matter.

(Active Duty military member’s name, rank, MOS, installation and unit names all withheld)

Response to MRFF's victory from
MRFF Supporter Rabbi Joel R. Schwartzman
Rabbi Joel Schwarzmann
I am not sure just how in touch people are with Christian super-secessionism and the fervency with which Christian and other zealots are pursuing their aims. In my day at the Air Force Academy, someone was motivated by Easter Sunday morning to slip a page with the words, “He is risen,” under the doors of every cadet room. Added to this was the erection of a cross on the hill amidst the terrazzo.  
 
Clearly, officials and ranking officers at the Academy needed then as now to address the Constitutional issues involved with religious observances and their limitations. Cadets need to be made aware that respecting sensitivities and boundaries are all part of creating unit and team cohesion, even aside from the legal aspects involved in acts of religious overstepping.
 
The role of the MRFF is vital here, especially at times like these. It is more than just ensuring that everyone plays by the rules. The MRFF acts as a brake to the initiatives that would send the U.S. armed forces in directions that would surely harm this country and its ability to defend the freedoms we each enjoy.
 
Rabbi Joel R. Schwartzman
Ch, Col, USAF (Ret)
This is not the first time MRFF has stopped a plan to commit the same un-American, Christian supremacist debasement of the American flag. In 2021, MRFF successfully intervened when a senior Navy NCO
ordered their subordinates to lower the flag for Jesus.
2021 email from one of the five sailors who
were ordered to lower the American flag for Jesus

Mr. Weinstein we wanted to thank you for stopping our (Senior NCO’s name and title withheld) from his order to us to have one our unit’s buildings (Bldg. number withheld) at (military installation name withheld) fly the American flag at half staff last Easter Sunday.

(Senior NCO’s name and title withheld) told us to do it in honor of both the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus.

The five of us here at (military installation name withheld) assigned to flag detail are Christians but we knew this was totally bogus.

Thank you for talking to our Exec. Officer to make this bullshit stop.

We had tried to tell (Senior NCO’s name and title withheld) ourselves but he would not listen to us.

He is also well known in our unit as a very pushy Christian and is always handing out Christian leaflets and stuff like that in our workplace and trying to get us to go to his bible studies and church.

It seems he always has a lot of support from our chain which is why we went to you and the MRFF for help. Which you gave us immediately.

If more of this happens we will come back for help again.

Thank you all at the MRFF! Please do not use our names or anything else to identify us to our chain but we all wanted to sign this note of thanks to you at the MRFF.

HOOYAH Military Religious Freedom Foundation!

(names, ranks, MOS/Ratings and titles of 5 MRFF United States Navy clients withheld)
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