MRFF Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

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MRFF Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
October 27, 2009
Military.com|by Bryant Jordan

The Military Religious Freedom Foundation, an organization founded to combat religious fundamentalism in the U.S. armed forces, has been nominated for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize.

"It's one of those things -- like an Academy Award -- even if you don't win you're always a nominee," MRFF founder Mikey Weinstein, a former Air Force lawyer, told Military.com Monday. He said he felt the nomination would boost the credibility of MRFF and expected those who support the foundation's work will be reenergized by the nomination. He also predicted that those opposed MRFF will criticize it.

"My hope is the average American will look and say, maybe there's something we should look at here," he said.

Weinstein worked in the White House as a general counsel lawyer during the Reagan administration. He established the MRFF in 2006 after first going to court over instances of proselytizing at his alma mater, the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, where his sons were cadets. Since then the foundation has been on the front lines of the fight against what Weinstein calls a “fundamentalist Christian, military-parachurch-corporate proselytizing complex.”

Air Force Academy officials did not respond to Military.com's request for comment by publication time.


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