SPECIAL EVENT: An Evening with Mikey Weinstein

The Boulder Atheists and the Secular Students and Skeptics Society, are very proud to bring Mikey Weinstein to CU Boulder for a talk.

Mikey is a true American hero. He is the Founder and President of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation. His organization is standing up against the religious right in the military, who are illegally forcing our soldiers and cadets into complying with their beliefs. Those who refuse are being persecuted. Because of Mikey, these breaches of separation if church and state are being exposed. As a result, Mikey has received death threats against him and his family, yet he has the courage to keep going. Because his life is constantly at risk, armed bodyguards must accompany Mikey at all times, yet he continues to keep spreading the word about this noble cause.

Mikey will also be doing a signing at the event for his new book, "No Snowflake in an Avalanche". Copies can be purchased at the event. The book signing will be from 6:30 to 7:20, and after the talk.

Tickets are $10. Students are free with ID. Tickets can be purchased at the following link:

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Tickets can also be purchased at the door, but this event will probably sell out.

To find out more about Mikey Weinstein, visit MilitaryReligiousFreedom.org (http://militaryreligiousfreedom.org)

Here is part of the bio of Michael L "Mikey" Weinstein, taken from his website:

Mikey Weinstein is the undisputed leader of the national movement to restore the obliterated wall separating church and state in the most technologically lethal organization ever created by humankind: the United States armed forces. Described by Harper’s magazine as the “constitutional conscience of the military, a man determined to force accountability”, Mikey’s family has a long and distinguished U.S. military history spanning three consecutive generations of military academy graduates and over 130 years of combined active duty military service in every major combat engagement our country has been in from World War I to the current Global War on Terror.

Mikey is a 1977 Honor Graduate of the United States Air Force Academy. Mikey has been married for over 34 years to his wife, Bonnie. He is the proud parent of two sons and one daughter. His oldest son and daughter-in-law are 2004 Graduates, and Mikey’s youngest son graduated in the Class of 2007 from the Air Force Academy and is the sixth member of Mikey’s family to attend the Academy. His father is a distinguished graduate of the United States Naval Academy. Mikey spent 10 years in the Air Force as a “JAG” or military attorney serving as both a Federal prosecutor and criminal defense attorney.

A registered Republican, he also spent over three years in the West Wing of the Reagan Administration as legal counsel in the White House. In his final position there, Mikey was named the Committee Management Officer of the much-publicized Iran-Contra Investigation in his capacity as Assistant General Counsel of The White House Office of Administration, Executive Office of the President of the United States. Mikey has held numerous positions in corporate America as a senior executive businessman and attorney.

After stints at prominent law firms in both New York City and Washington D.C., Mikey served as the first General Counsel to Texas billionaire and two-time Presidential candidate H. Ross Perot and Perot Systems Corporation. He left Mr. Perot’s employ in 2006 to focus his fulltime attention on the nonprofit charitable foundation he founded to directly battle the far-right militant radical evangelical religious fundamentalists: The Military Religious Freedom Foundation.