Tuesday Afternoon, February 18, 2025

MRFF VICTORY!!!

AIR EDUCATION AND TRAINING COMMAND

REMOVES NEW TESTAMENT BIBLE VERSE “NICKNAME” FROM FACEBOOK POST AFTER

PHONE CALL WITH MIKEY WEINSTEIN

Within half an hour of MRFF Founder and President Mikey Weinstein’s phone call this morning with the 2-Star General Deputy Commander of the Air Education and Training Command (AETC) at Joint Base San Antonio (JBSA) – the DoD’s largest joint base – an Air Force crew chief’s New Testament Bible verse “Gal 6:14” nickname was removed from a post on the AETC’s official Facebook page, with the 3-Star General AETC Commander’s blessing.

To the relief of MRFF’s 17 JBSA client complainants and their families, the official AETC Facebook page no longer promotes this Christian crew chief’s malapropos Galatians 6:14 message: “May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.”

(We’re waiting for a fruit basket from trans-trampling

SECDEF “Petey” for getting “Gal” removed

from a photo of a “Guy” airman.)

MRFF Founder and President Mikey Weinstein’s

e-mail to AETC Commander Lt. General Brian Robinson demanding that the “Gal 6:14” Facebook post be removed

From: Michael L Weinstein <mikeyw4444@icloud.com>

Subject: AETC is at it again!

Date: February 17, 2025 at 3:21:20 PM MST

To: Lt. Gen. Brian Robinson

Cc: Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David W. Allvin, Acting Secretary of the Air Force Gary A. Ashworth, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Charles Q. Brown

…Dear, LGEN Robinson,

….Seriously, sir??!!……especially in light of AFI 1-1, Section 2.16, TAKE THAT UNCONSTITUTIONAL, ILLICIT, CHRISTIAN NATIONALIST, FACEBOOK POST DOWN IMMEDIATELY!!!!

………sincerely,

Michael L. “Mikey” Weinstein, Esq.

Founder and President

Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF; mrff.org)

505-250-7727

2.16. Balance of Free Exercise of Religion and Establishment Clause. Leaders at all levels must balance constitutional protections for free exercise of religion and the constitutional prohibition against governmental establishment of religion. They must ensure their words and actions do not discriminate against any individual or group because of their faith, belief, or absence of belief, or extend preferential treatment for the same. Leaders must ensure that their personal expression is not reasonably associated with their government role, but may engage in such expression per DAFI 52-201, Religious Freedom in the Department of the Air Force.

Mikey Weinstein’s e-mail to Maj. Gen. Clark Quinn, thanking him for the nice phone call this morning and

the swift removal of the New Testament Bible reference

From: Michael L Weinstein <mikeyw4444@icloud.com>

Subject: Thank you, Major General Quinn

Date: February 18, 2025 at 8:25:15 AM MST

To: Maj. Gen. Clark Quinn

Cc: Lt. Gen. Brian Robinson, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David W. Allvin, Acting Secretary of the Air Force Gary A. Ashworth, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Charles Q. Brown

…..Dear Major General Clark Quinn, Deputy Commander, Air Education and Training Command (AETC), Joint Base San Antonio (JBSA), 

…..Just a quick e-mail to thank you for the nice phone call we both just had where you so kindly confirmed that you and the AETC Commander, Lt. General Brian Robinson, have agreed to expeditiously take down the illicit Facebook post, which is the subject of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation’s (MRFF’s) complaint herewith as described below, and alter it to redact the objectionable New Testament citation…

….indeed, General Quinn, our MRFF Research Dept. has already corroborated that the Facebook post has now been replaced, just as you promised in our phone call, and is now devoid of that unconstitutional New Testament biblical citation….

……..Sir, on behalf of MRFF’s 17 JBSA client complainants and their families under your command (12 of whom are practitioners of the Christian faith themselves with the others following either minority faith traditions such as Islam or Judaism etc., or no faith traditions), the MRFF thanks you and the AETC Commander Lt. General Robinson for so swiftly doing the right thing here in accordance with our nation's Constitution, its construing Federal caselaw as well as all of the salient and pertinent DoD and USAF Directives, Instructions and Regulations….

……..with respect and gratitude,

……….Mikey Weinstein, Founder and President, MRFF; 505-250-7727

E-mail from one of the 17 grateful MRFF

clients at JBSA who came to MRFF to get the

New Testament Bible verse reference removed

from the official AETC Facebook page

“20 Year Airman Thanks MRFF for JBSA Victory”

From: (MRFF Joint Base San Antonio (JBSA) client’s e-mail address withheld)

Subject: 20 Year Airman Thanks MRFF for JBSA Victory

Date: February 18, 2025 at 10:27:18 AM MST

To: Michael L Weinstein <mikeyw4444@icloud.com>

I wanted to thank Mikey and the team at MRFF for their rapid response in getting an AETC social media post containing verses from the Bible removed. Thomas Jefferson once wrote “the price of Liberty is eternal vigilance.” As one of seventeen people who brought this to MRFF’s attention, I can attest to their vigilance. Within 15 minutes of sending the team at MRFF a screenshot of the post, they responded and immediately began actioning the issue. That sort of response time is commendable for a quick reaction force and virtually unheard of for a nonprofit over a long weekend. 

After over more than twenty years of service, I still find it baffling that leaders, who have sworn an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States, cannot adequately communicate the egregious impropriety of a implied government endorsement of religion. Hopefully, AETC leadership will take this opportunity to train its Public Affairs Airmen on their professional obligation to avoid running afoul of the Establishment Clause. 

Thanks to MRFF for their vigilance in reminding Air Force senior leaders of their obligations to uphold the values they swore to protect. 

Sincerely,

20 year Airman 

FLASHBACK TO 2020

In May 2020, then-Rep. Doug Collins (R-GA) – now Trump’s Secretary of the VA – and nineteen other Christian nationalist members of the House of Representatives wrote a letter (littered

with factual inaccuracies, a.k.a. lies) to then-Secretary of Defense

Mark Esper, attacking MRFF over a string of COVID-era

victories in getting proselytizing social media posts

removed from official military social media pages.

When the Department of the Army, responding on behalf of

Secretary Esper, agreed with MRFF and the commanders who removed the proselytizing posts in response to MRFF’s demands, Collins and his congressional Christian cohort fired off another

letter to Esper, which began (emphasis added):

“While we appreciate the Army’s response to our letter dated

May 14, 2020, we are discouraged to learn that the Army is not only standing behind the decisions of commands that have restricted the religious liberty of their chaplains and servicemembers, but the

Army and the Department of Defense (DoD) are also supporting these actions and guiding commands’ responses to the aggressive demands of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) and Mikey Weinstein. …”

A distraught Collins even went on Fox News to moan about

the success of MRFF and “Mickey” Weinstein, appearing on

“Fox News @ Night” with Shannon Bream on July 1, 2020.

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