'Hate mail' brings out bomb squad

This is just pathetic, but yet "we" are the ones labelled as "fascist" and bullies,,,

An Albuquerque-based civil rights group got a scare after receiving a threatening letter in the mail that stated they only had half an hour before something bad was going to happen.

"This is the mailer for the end of the year that we send out for donations," said Mikey Weinstein, founder of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation.

Weinstein said the mailer sent back did not have a donation or even a Happy Holiday's greeting inside. Weinstein said his employee opened the letter, panic struck and he immediately called police.

Weinstein said the letter is clearly hate mail for the civil rights group. In it, the writer said the group's interests are idiotic, but it was the last line is what really shook up the employee.

"The last part says 'This letter has been treated to explode 20 minutes after opening,'" Weinstein said.

The writer ends by saying "Good luck."

'Hate mail' brings out bomb squad

MRFF Demands the Immediate Dismissal of 'Ex-Gay' Counselor from Air Force Academy | Chris Rodda

As reported by the Colorado Springs Independent, the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) today sent a letter to Acting Secretary of the Air Force Eric Fanning demanding that Dr. Mike Rosebush be immediately dismissed from his position at the Air Force Academy.

The full article about Dr. Rosebush, the subject of an extensive report by Pam Zubeck, will be out in tomorrow's edition of the Independent, but, due to the story leaking elsewhere earlier today, the Independent has posted a preview of MRFF's demand letter, and I am posting the full letter here.

MRFF Demands the Immediate Dismissal of 'Ex-Gay' Counselor from Air Force Academy | Chris Rodda

The U.S. military has a problem with atheists - The Week

When an active-duty Marine was given a Marine Corps training document describing "potential risk indicators" commanders should look for to prevent loss of life among service members, he found one checkbox that didn't seem to fit. Among warning signs like substance abuse and prior suicide attempts was "lack or loss of spiritual faith."

Concerned that this was a discriminatory policy, the Marine notified the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF), a nonprofit dedicated to keeping religion separate from the U.S. military. The organization, which told me that it plans to sue the U.S. Marines unless the government backs off this policy, says this is the military's latest effort to discriminate against service members who don't believe in God.

Advocates for the policy say the military is simply doing everything it can to promote emotional well-being among troops, especially in the face of its growing suicide epidemic. (Last year, the U.S. military saw more active duty soldiers commit suicide than die in combat — 48 of them Marines.)

"The whole concept of judging service members based on their spirituality is completely unconstitutional," says Mikey Weinstein, a former Air Force officer and founder and president of MRFF. "This country was founded on a very critical principle — the Founding Framers looked at the horrors that occurred throughout history by mixing religion and war, and they said, 'We're going to separate church and state.' And that means they cannot test for religion in the military."

The U.S. military has a problem with atheists - The Week