Wednesday Evening, April 23, 2025

HAPPY 117th BIRTHDAY, U.S. ARMY RESERVE!

The Army Reserve’s birthday dates back to the formation

of the Medical Reserve Corps on April 23,1908.

LONG-TIME MRFF ANTAGONIST

VA SECRETARY DOUG COLLINS ISSUES

“ANTI-CHRISTIAN BIAS” MEMO URGING

VA EMPLOYEES TO RAT ON CO-WORKERS 

Christian nationalist former congressman and long-time

MRFF enemy VA Secretary Doug Collins has issued an

“Anti-Christian Bias” memo, urging VA employees to rat on coworkers who don’t allow their poor persecuted Christian supremacist colleagues to force their religion on everybody. 

“Everybody that works for the VA has taken an oath, and they

all are federal officers. And this absolutely creates a religious

test to make sure that you are Christian enough. ...

This is an absolute religious test.”

— MRFF Founder and President Mikey Weinstein,

quoted by Military.com (see story below)

Cross added to sign by MRFF to accentuate the obvious point.

MRFF Matters - 4/23/25 - Fascism Wrapped

in the Flag, Carrying the Cross

MILITARY.COM

COVERS MRFF

VA Launches 'Anti-Christian Bias' Task Force,

Asks Employees to Report Allegations

By: Patricia Kime

Wednesday, April 23, 2025

Military.com quotes Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), the ranking Democrat on the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, saying that Collins's memo lacked “any factual basis or rationale.”

MRFF couldn’t agree more with the good senator from Connecticut!

Further, as Mikey Weinstein told Military.com for this article, Collins's memo creates an unconstitutional religious test. Mikey’s statements, quoted from the article:

Mikey Weinstein, leader of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, an advocacy group that seeks to protect boundaries between church, religion and state, disagrees. He said during an interview with Military.com that, since Christians make up a majority of the VA workforce, he believes the investigation is an effort to force Christian values on the VA and address those "who are simply not Christian enough."

"Everybody that works for the VA has taken an oath, and they all are federal officers. And this absolutely creates a religious test to make sure that you are Christian enough. ... This is an absolute religious test," Weinstein said Tuesday.

Weinstein added that VA employees have reached out to the group and are "anxious" about the solicitation.

"It is a tarantula on the wedding cake of freedom of choice of religious beliefs, of freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and freedom against discrimination for whatever particular god or lack of any god that you want to believe in," Weinstein said.

Full text of Christian nationalist VA Secretary

Doug Collins’s e-mail to VA employees

MESSAGE FROM THE SECRETARY

Task Force on Anti-Christian Bias

On February 6, 2025, President Trump enacted Executive Order (EO) 14202, Eradicating Anti-Christian Bias, establishing a Task Force to review the last Administration's treatment of Christians.

Accordingly, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is establishing its own Task Force to better effectuate the Department's internal review. The VA Task Force now requests all VA employees to submit any instance of anti-Christian discrimination to Anti-ChristianBiasReporting@va.gov.

Submissions should include sufficient identifiers such as names, dates, and locations.

While the VA Task Force will review all instances of anti-Christian bias, it is specifically seeking the following:

1. Any examples of adverse actions taken in response to an accommodation request;
2. Any retaliatory actions taken in response to religious holiday observances:
3. Any adverse responses to requests for religious exemption under the previous vaccine mandates;
4. Any denied request for a religious accommodation,
5. Any mistreatment or reprimand issued in response to displays of Christian imagery or symbols.
6. Any observations of mistreatment for not participating in events or activities inconsistent with Christian views;
7. Any retaliatory actions taken or threatened in response to abstaining from certain procedures or treatments (for example: abortions or hormone therapy);
8. Any informal policies, procedures, or unofficial understandings hostile to Christian views;
9. Any examples of retaliatory action against VA Chaplains in response to sermons preached;
10. Any discipline received in response to religious-based expressions; and
11. Any failure to be promoted for religious reasons.

Thank you for your attention to this important MATTER.

A few “highlights” from MRFF’s long history

with Christian nationalist Doug Collins

While in Congress, Collins was either the lead or a signer of multiple letters from groups of Christian nationalist

members of Congress sent to past secretaries

of the DoD and VA attacking MRFF:

In 2020 MRFF got Collins in some trouble for violating

DoD regulations in his congressional campaign ads:

This one was from when he objected to MRFF stopping a mandatory Campus Crusade for Christ-connected

"Battle Study" for Marine Reserve JAGS:

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