Thursday Evening, November 21, 2024

NPR NETWORK's EXTREMELY AMERICAN

HOST HEATH DRUZIN INTERVIEWS

MRFF's MIKEY WEINSTEIN ON PETE HEGSETH

FOR THE IDAHO CAPITAL SUN

• Heath Druzin is the host and creator of the Extremely American podcast, which looks at the intersection of extremism and politics. For the latest season he spent a year inside the Christian nationalism movement with a focus on the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches, which Hegseth's church is a part of.

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“Pete Hegseth is a poster child for literally everything that would be the opposite of what you would want to have for someone who’s controlling the technologically most lethal organization in history of this country,” 

“Christian nationalism is an absolute fatal cancer metastasizing at light speed (for) the national security of this country. It is a Christian version of the Taliban.”

— Mikey Weinstein Quotes from Idaho Capital Sun Article

Mikey Weinstein, Founder and President of Military Religious Freedom Foundation

MIKEY WEINSTEIN COVERED BY

IDAHO CAPITAL SUN

Trump’s Defense Secretary Nominee has close ties to Idaho Christian Nationalists

By: Heath Druzin

Thursday, November 21, 2024

The Idaho Capital Sun concretely exposes Pete Hegseth’s ties to a Christian nationalist church and his extreme Christian nationalist ideas for nothing short of an American theocracy. The article quotes MRFF Founder and President Mikey Weinstein on the danger of Hegseth to our military:

“Pete Hegseth is a poster child for literally everything that would be the opposite of what you would want to have for someone who’s controlling the technologically most lethal organization in the history of this country.”

Extremely American Podcast on the NPR Network

Extremely American: Onward Christian Soldiers host Heath Druzin and James Dawson take an inside look at Christian nationalism. The movement aims to end American democracy as we know it and install theocracy, taking rights away from the vast majority of Americans in the process. The season follows the movement through the story of an influential far-right church, its attempt to take over a small town and a dark underbelly of abuse.

Some of NPR's Previous MRFF Coverage

Field Grade Officer and Senior Developmental Education Student Appreciation of MRFF Legal Guidance

From: (Field Grade Military Officer and MRFF Client’s e-mail address withheld)

Subject: Field Grade Officer and Senior Developmental Education Student Appreciation of MRFF Legal Guidance

Date: November 20, 2024 at 6:36:06 PM MST

To: mikey@militaryreligiousfreedom.org

Good evening,



I want to express my sincere appreciation to MRFF for its immediate response to my query today regarding the illegal use of religion in military Senior Developmental Education. As a field grade officer, I am concerned about religious proselytizing at my university, which the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has tasked with educating senior military officers to serve in joint staff and command roles post-graduation. The prevalence of religious materials and themes has been integrated into required readings, lectures, and seminar discussions with no significant bearing on course objectives, thus violating the separation of church and state. It is deeply troubling that Christian Fundamentalism continues to pervade the military to the detriment of good order and discipline, which negatively impacts wartime readiness. If senior military officers are being subjected to this radicalization, I can only imagine what our Company Grade Officers and junior enlisted members are having to tolerate in their daily service.

Mr. Weinstein contacted me immediately to set up a call to discuss the facts and to provide advice and guidance on how to proceed with using the chain of command, and should it not address the issue, how to file formal complaints. I have long supported MRFF and am grateful for its many fights to maintain constitutional protections for all service members.

Sincerely,

(Military Senior Developmental Education Student’s name, rank, MOS/AFSC, unit, and assigned installation all withheld)

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