Friday Afternoon, August 12, 2022

IMPRECATORY PRAYER, A.K.A. ‘TROLLING FOR ASSASSINS,’ AIMED AT MRFF’S MIKEY WEINSTEIN "Trolling for assassins" is a term coined by Frank Schaeffer back in 2017, when bumper stickers and t-shirts with the message to pray for then-President Obama — with the prayer being Psalm109 — became popular. What is Psalm 109? It's what's known as an imprecatory prayer — a Bible verse curse calling for someone's death. The most popular of these imprecatory prayers, and one that has been aimed at MRFF Founder and President Mikey Weinstein a number of times over the years, is Psalm 109: "May his days be few; and let another take his office. Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow." Why are imprecatory prayers so dangerous? Because when they are put out publicly an unhinged person seeing them might act on them under the delusion that they are doing God's will. Hence the term "Trolling for assassins."

Imprecatory tweet aimed at Mikey Weinstein from August 5, 2022

Mikey Weinstein has been the target of imprecatory prayers and their subsequent upticks of death threats against him and his family a number of times since forming MRFF over 16 years ago, such as in the case covered by The Atlantic back in 2009

THE ATLANTIC COVERAGE OF THE IMPRECATORY PRAYERS ISSUED AGAINST MIKEY WEINSTEIN Murder, He Said By: Wendy Kaminer Friday, October 16, 2009 This Atlantic article from 2009 covers Mikey Weinstein's lawsuit against disgraced former Navy chaplain Gordon Klingenschmitt and former chaplain endorser James Ammerman after Klingenschmitt publicly issued imprecatory prayers against Weinstein and former executive director of Americans United for Church and State Barry Lynn, which made the death threats against Weinstein and his family increase exponentially.

Click to read on The Atlantic

MRFF litigation council in his 2009 imprecatory prayer lawsuit weighs in on the recent imprecatory tweet and an imprecatory prayer on the internet's "extremely dangerous risk of inciting an unstable person to violence"

From: "R. Mathis" Date: August 12, 2022 at 9:22:48 AM MST To: Michael L Weinstein <[email protected]> Mikey – Thanks for making me aware of this. There can be no doubt of the dangerous risks posed by these imprecatory prayers posted over the internet. As noted, they are a threat in the form of a Bible passage curse that carry an extremely dangerous risk of inciting an unstable person to violence. My representation of you in the Ammermann/Klingenschmitt case a number of years ago is a reminder of the horrible things you and your family experienced after those “prayers”. You will recall that the court in Dallas where the case was pending restricted an entire floor of the building and assigned multiple deputies to ensure our security when we deposed Col. Ammerman. I would encourage law enforcement there to take the current situation very seriously.

The recent imprecatory tweet comes on the heels of a spate of death threats against Mikey Weinstein and MRFF's supporters posted on the MRFF website

7/14/2022 – White Supremacist Death Threats Against MRFF Rise to a New Level: “I Am Going to Murder Michael Weinstein and His Supporters”

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