Browsing: Mikey Weinstein

Military Religious Freedom Foundation President Mikey Weinstein got into a dustup with Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly last night over the Air Force Academy’s controversial honor oath. As we reported yesterday, the academy is considering dropping or changing its honor oath over its concluding phrase, “so help me God,” which Weinstein says violates the constitutional guarantee against a religious test for office. The interview is worth a watch (and former “M*A*S*H” actor Mike Farrell, AKA B.J. Hunnicutt, who sits on MRFF’s board, even gets a mention here). Sound off below, or in our forums. Do you think Weinstein is right,…

***UPDATE*** Air Force Times has learned that the Space and Missile Systems Center is planning to reschedule its industry days out of respect to the Jewish celebration of Yom Kippur. Stay tuned! Whomever  scheduled this year’s  Space and Missile Systems  Center industry days for Sept. 25 through Sept. 27, might need to repent  if they don’t move the event to another set of days. It just so happens that this year’s event has been scheduled at exactly the same time that Jewish people  observe what is considered the holiest day of their calendar, Yom Kippur,  or the Day of…

Sixty days ago, the Air Force said it would give “appropriate consideration” to allegations that the Air Force Academy’s dean of faculty ordered a campaign against a religious freedom watchdog group and then lied about it during a deposition. And low and behold the organization in question — the Military Religious Freedom Foundation — wants to know what the Air Force has found since it began it’s considering. The foundation has pressed the Air Force to investigate allegations that Brig. Gen. Dana Born directed a subordinate, in writing, to launch a campaign against the watchdog group and then denied it…

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