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Religious Freedom Group Nominated for Nobel

The Military Religious Freedom Foundation, a non-profit group aimed at eliminating discrimination and religious oppression in the U.S. armed forces, has been nominated to receive the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize. The group was founded in 2005 by Michael L. “Mikey” Weinstein, a 1977 Air Force Academy honor graduate and former general counsel for one-time presidential candidate H. Ross Perot, in reaction to his perception that the school encouraged proselytizing of members of other religious by fundamentalist Christian administrators, faculty, and students. The organization now has more than 15,000 members, according to a press release. The nomination came from an unnamed foreign legislator, identified only as the sole Christian in his nation’s senate.   

 

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