Michael L. Weinstein

Michael L. Weinstein is an American attorney, businessman, and former Air Force officer. He is the founding president of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation and author of With God on Our Side: One Man's War Against an Evangelical Coup in America's Military and No Snowflake in an Avalanche, both of which describe his fight against alleged coercive Christian fundamentalist practices by some members of the military.

Weinstein graduated with honors from the United States Air Force Academy in 1977. He has stated that while at the Academy he encountered a string of incidents of psychological harassment, including notes emblazoned with swastikas and anti-Semitic slurs, death threats, and two violent incidents of hazing where he was ambushed, beaten, and, in one case, hospitalized.

Weinstein graduated from Cabrillo Senior Highschool in Lompoc, CA in 1973. He began his legal studies at McGeorge School of Law at the University of the Pacific. He enrolled in the University through the Air Force Law School Program shortly after his appointment as Chief of the Secure Systems Branch of the 2049th Communications and Installations Group at McClellan Air Force Base. Weinstein graduated with his Juris Doctorate degree in 1981. Weinstein served for as both an air force sponsored law student and a practicing JAG officer with the Judge Advocate General's Corps (JAG) for over ten years.

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