{"id":33967,"date":"2015-11-10T00:30:43","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T03:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=33967"},"modified":"2016-11-24T22:29:20","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T01:29:20","slug":"air-force-dismisses-eo-complaint-from-wiccan-hindu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/10\/air-force-dismisses-eo-complaint-from-wiccan-hindu\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Force Dismisses EO Complaint from Wiccan Hindu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As noted at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.military.com\/daily-news\/2015\/11\/06\/air-force-dismisses-witch-complaint-from-hindu-contractor.html\">Military.com<\/a>, the Air Force Equal Opportunity office at Joint Base Andrews dismissed the EO complaint from contractor Deborah Schoenfeld, the self-described Hindu-interested-in-Wicca (whose complaint\u00a0was <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/2015\/10\/06\/mikey-weinstein-defends-wiccan-hindu-fired-at-fort-meade\/\">previously discussed<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The office on Oct. 27 dismissed her complaint, saying she filed too late and also because the individuals she claimed discriminated against her &#8220;are not Air Force employees.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Schoenfeld disputes the filing deadline issue, but it appears to be moot if the subjects of the complaint weren&#8217;t even\u00a0in the Air Force. Schoenfeld disputes that, too, saying\u00a0 <!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>that after she was fired her supervisor, Tech. Sgt. LaShonda Jones, solicited back-dated letters of complaint about her from other clinic employees.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If that&#8217;s the extent of her claim, she&#8217;ll fail there, as well.\u00a0Even if Schoenfeld&#8217;s complaint about Jones is completely accurate, it is simply &#8220;a&#8221; complaint, not an Equal Opportunity one, as it does not constitute discrimination nor was it prior to her termination &#8212; meaning the original dismissal by the EO office will stand.<\/p>\n<p>Oddly, the article notes her complaint included at least two Army Soldiers, including the NCOIC of the clinic &#8212; over whom the Air Force wouldn&#8217;t have purview. It begs the question why Schoenfeld would lodge the complaint with the Air Force at all, rather than the Army.<\/p>\n<p>Schoenfeld apparently plans to sue, with Michael &#8220;Mikey&#8221; Weinstein saying<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We will help her find a litigator for this.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Despite being a lawyer himself, Weinstein has\u00a0declined to take on MRFF lawsuits himself (save the <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/2007\/01\/01\/93\/\">first he filed<\/a>), and none of his lawsuits have survived the first motion to dismiss. That may be why he has had problems finding other lawyers to work <em>pro bono<\/em> &#8212; which, according to MRFF insiders, is the only way the MRFF will litigate the case.<\/p>\n<p>This despite the fact <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/2015\/01\/13\/mikey-weinstein-rakes-in-700000-in-donations\/\">Mikey Weinstein rakes in<\/a> nearly three-quarters of a million dollars per year in his &#8220;charity&#8221; &#8212; and banks much of that as his personal pay.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-share=\"true\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-size=\"small\" data-action=\"like\" data-layout=\"standard\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>ADVERTISEMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><!-- blogpost --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"2728423835\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6450825356098669\"><\/ins><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As noted at Military.com, the Air Force Equal Opportunity office at Joint Base Andrews dismissed the EO complaint from contractor Deborah Schoenfeld, the self-described Hindu-interested-in-Wicca (whose complaint\u00a0was previously discussed): The office on Oct. 27 dismissed her complaint, saying she filed too late and also because the individuals she claimed discriminated against her &#8220;are not Air Force employees.&#8221; Schoenfeld disputes the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33757,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[134,82,776,5348,1470,1533,73,5349,5376,85,2,5218,7,11,17,10,171,77,2506,708],"class_list":["post-33967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-air-force","tag-constitution","tag-contract","tag-deborah-schoenfeld","tag-equal-opportunity","tag-fort-meade","tag-hindu","tag-ingenesis","tag-lashonda-jones","tag-mikey-weinstein","tag-military","tag-military-religious-freedom-foundation","tag-mrff","tag-prayer","tag-religious-expression","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-wicca","tag-witch","tag-yoga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}