Michael L. Weinstein is “a 1977
Honor Graduate of the United States Air Force Academy. Mikey has been married for 31 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 recently 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.”
Michael L. Weinstein is the author of With God on Our Side: One Man's War Against an Evangelical Coup
in America's Military. According
to the book description of With God on Our Side: One Man's War Against an Evangelical Coup in America's
Military, “One of the most elite educational institutions in the world, the Air Force Academy has, from
its inception, attracted the best and the brightest, producing leaders not only in the military but throughout American society.
In recent years, however, the Academy
has also been producing a cadre of zealous evangelical Christians intent on creating a fundamentalist power base at the highest
levels of our country. With God on Our Side is shocking exposé of life inside the United States Air Force Academy and
the systematic program of indoctrination sanctioned, coordinated, and carried out by fundamentalist Christians within the
U.S. military.
It is also the story of Michael L. Weinstein,
a proud Academy graduate and the father of two graduates and a current cadet, who single-handedly brought to light the evangelicals’
utter disregard of the constitutional principle of separation of church and state that is so essential to the nation’s
military mission. Weinstein’s war would pit him and his small band of fellow graduates, cadets, and concerned citizens
against a program of Christian fundamentalist indoctrination that could transform our fighting men and women into “right-thinking”
warriors more befitting a theocracy. In the process, he would come face to face with religious bigotry and at its most extreme
and fight an unrelenting battle to save his beloved Academy, the ideals it stood for, and the very future of the country.
An important book at a critical time
in our nation’s history, With God on Our Side is the story of one man’s courageous struggle to thwart a creeping
evangelism permeating America’s military and to prevent a taxpayer-funded theocracy in which only the true believers
have power.”
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