From: (Active Duty U.S. Military Member/MRFF Client’s E-mail address withheld)
Subject: MRFF stops Christian insanity at our military base in under 4 hours
Date: October 27, 2021 at 3:59:11 PM MDT
Hello to Mikey Weinstein and the MRFF,
Want to keep this short & to the point.
Over 50 (name of military personnel branch personnel withheld) of us contacted the MRFF earlier this day for help to stop our crazy (unit deputy commander name, rank and title withheld) who was trying to stop us from celebrating Halloween on base here at (name of military installation withheld) or anywhere else and from trying to get Jewish personnel in our unit to agree to “play Jews” in his idea for our unit Christmas “origin story” play.
For the record, I am one of those “Jewish personnel" under his command but well over 90% of the rest of us who came to the MRFF this morning are Christians of one stripe or another.
We have a pretty large unit. When our (unit deputy commander’s name, rank and title withheld) addressed us all at a mandatory unit meeting yesterday he actually had the damn gall to tell us that “Halloween is a very divisive event for believing Christians like me and my family and many others here at (name of military installation withheld).” He further argued that if we made the “personal choice to celebrate it” this would be disrespectful to the (military branch’s name withheld) core goals and would "negatively affect unit equality diversity and unity."
Most of us were effin shocked at this. Oh, but there is more!
After this jacked up shit about Halloween he gave us an example of “good unit equality diversity and unity”. He said that this year our unit would be having a “Christmas play” to "celebrate the origins of Christ’s birth" and that he’d be asking Jewish members of our unit to volunteer to play “Jewish characters” in the Christmas saga of Jesus’ birth!
WTF? Are you shitting us we all thought? That is some more seriously jacked up shit! As a Jewish member of this unit (and we have several) there is NO way I’d ever stoop to such a thing.
We knew this was all messed up and one of us (name, rank and title withheld) said we should call the MRFF.
Nobody wanted to start a war with our Deputy Commander for fear of him finding a way to retaliate but we called the MRFF and Mr. Weinstein himself answered right away.
He recognized our situation and said that the MRFF had successfully dealt with this pretty exact same type of outrageous shit before. He said he’d have the MRFF staff send him some links to send to us about these other instances.
Like maybe only a matter of minutes later we got the forwarded e-mail from Mikey which came from Chris Rodda at MRFF.
We read it and were as shocked & pissed off as we were with (unit deputy commander’s name, rank and title withheld)’s rant against us having fun with Halloween and his additional shit about asking Jewish unit members LIKE ME to play “Jews” in his planned Christmas play for our unit.
Mr. Weinstein told us he’d be happy to engage personally with our chain of command. We thought about it but instead we went to (senior enlisted NCO’s name, rank and title withheld) and showed her the e-mail Mikey had forwarded from Chris Rodda showing the MRFF’s victories over similar instances of insane Christian command decrees.
She said she had heard of the MRFF & told us to hold on and let her try to fix this. Using the MRFF e-mail Mikey sent from Chris Rodda she went to our most senior unit leadership immediately.
Just under 4 hours after we had first contacted the MRFF our Commander personally called our unit leadership into a sudden meeting and told them to tell us that he expected us all to thoroughly enjoy Halloween and that there would be no unit Christmas play at all let alone one where Jewish unit members would be asked to participate as “Christmas origin story Jews”!
So we have a happy ending. Except (unit deputy commander name, rank and title withheld) should get his ass kicked by our chain of command which will likely never happen.
Anyway big shoutouts to the MRFF for helping us out of this bullshit and in record time.
We do not want to ID the unit or installation or the names of our unit leadership here. Everyone still knows that( unit deputy commander name, rank and title withheld ) could still try to mess us up.
And if he does we will call Mikey and the MRFF again.
But thank you to all of you at the MRFF for being there to lead us to a big “W” here! Thank you all for being totally ready when we called you for this help!
(name, rank, title and installation of Active Duty military member withheld)
