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The UK’s Daily Mail splendidly covers the “fierce backlash inside the US military” to Christian nationalist SECDEF Pete Hegseth’s “taking aim at ‘woo-woo’ new age beliefs” and “trying to become the denominational policeman for members of the military,” as one Baptist chaplain quoted in the article put it.
The article prominently features MRFF, with multiple quotes from Mikey Weinstein.
From the article (emphasis added):
‘What he is doing is multi-generational damage to the US military by attempting to take a sledge-hammer to the essence of the Chaplain Corps,’ adds Mikey Weinstein, founder and president of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, a group seeking to prevent what it views as unconstitutional religious coercion among members.
‘This is a tidal wave of unconstitutional destruction fueled by his fundamentalist Christian nationalistic arrogance and hubris,’ Weinstein said about Hegseth’s recent comments.
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Weinstein, who served as a military judge advocate general for several years, founded his group to protect pluralism – meaning religious diversity – in the military. He has choice words for Hegseth, calling him a ‘cowardly ignoramus, boozer, womanizing POS’.
‘This idea of trying to alter the Chaplain Corps is simply a way to try to buttress and fortify this perspective of racism, Christian nationalism, white exclusivity, triumphalism and exceptionalism – his approved solution to eliminating representing any other faith.’
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