Michael “Mikey” Weinstein recently claimed victory in a lawsuit — which is no small thing for a man who has lost 5 of the past 5 lawsuits he’s filed over the past decade in his attacks on military religious freedom. The announcement, though, was subtle.

One of Weinstein’s favorite media advocates, local journalist Pam Zubeck, included a nearly irrelevant reference to Weinstein in an article about Fort Carson:

Mikey Weinstein leads the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, which won a settlement in a lawsuit against the Air Force Academy superintendent on behalf of a former employee.

Weinstein’s ego knows no bounds, so it is significant that this is the first time the MRFF has publicly acknowledged ‘winning a lawsuit’ (against the US Air Force Academy, no less), and that it would do so without pomp and circumstance.

Unless, of course, not talking about it was part of the settlement.

Given the circumstances, Weinstein is almost certainly referring to Mullin v Donley, which may technically be a lawsuit but may be better understood as an administrative EEO complaint.

Former US Air Force Academy instructor R. David Mullin (who famously sued to stop retired Lt Clebe McClary from speaking at USAFA’s National Prayer Lunceon), filed an EEO complaint because his supervisor told him he needed to get up and walk around to monitor cadets’ use of their laptops. Mullin said his employment agreement allowed him to teach sitting down because he has “limbically augmented pain syndrome.”

Given that his supervisor acknowledged he did tell Mullin that, so long as that was part of the employment agreement, it shouldn’t have been a tough case to win. Apparently, the Air Force settled the complaint.

It seems that if Weinstein can’t succeed in his attacks on religious liberty, he can fall back on employment law (or maybe his job at MIBON consulting).

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