Michael “Mikey” Weinstein is the sole paid employee of a self-founded “charity” that claims to protect religious freedom in the US military. In fact, though, Weinstein pays himself more than a quarter million dollars per year while doing nothing more than attacking anything remotely approaching an expression of or an association with Christianity.

One of his most recent targets was sentries at Robins AFB who dared to say “have a blessed day” to those entering the base.

Because we can’t have people wishing others well, apparently. (Weinstein laughably asserted this was an attempt by the gate guards to convert people to Christianity.)

Then, Weinstein targeted a Wing Commander who praised his troops for “doing the Lord’s work” in Afghanistan and the Middle East.  Weinstein called the Colonel’s use of the euphemism “an ominous threat…to the security of the entire world.”  Though Weinstein certainly recognized the turn of phrase, his sensationalized it to feed his ego’s need for publicity and reassurance of his own self-importance. Unfortunately for him, he received neither: The Air Force ignored him.

While there have been examples of US troops motivated by their religion to be what some would call a “national security threat,” not one has been a Christian. Yet it is only Christians in the US military that Weinstein has attacked with an unrivaled bigotry.

Bereft of an actual Christian threat to the United States, Weinstein has been either forced to manufacture a “clear and present danger” or relegated to lowly role of grammar police.

To that end, Weinstein will probably complain about the March issue of Airman Magazine, the official magazine of the Air Force, which used what Weinstein would call a “Christian supremacist” phrase on its cover: Heavens to Betsy.

Who knows? Weinstein may even threaten to file a lawsuit over the fighter pilot vernacular. He’ll likely claim only he, not God, can “damn.”

Of course, a legal threat from Weinstein carries no more weight than any other playground bully — a bully who talks big, but never actually delivers.

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