{"id":14452,"date":"2011-12-05T01:00:45","date_gmt":"2011-12-05T04:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=14452"},"modified":"2015-06-27T19:14:23","modified_gmt":"2015-06-27T22:14:23","slug":"in-reversal-weinstein-defends-christian-military-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/05\/in-reversal-weinstein-defends-christian-military-service\/","title":{"rendered":"In Reversal, Weinstein Defends Christian Military Service"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a stark departure from his normal incendiary vitriol, Michael Weinstein recently took the unprecedented step of defending <\/em>Christians serving in the US military.<\/p>\n

Read carefully [emphasis added, as quoted at the American Muslim<\/a>]:<\/p>\n

Muslim-American service members, as well as their comrades-in-arms of all faith groups<\/em><\/strong>, know full well that the sworn oaths of loyalty to the mission of serving the American people and protecting our cherished constitutional freedoms take precedence over religious identity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is a complete reversal of prior accusations that Christians in the US military, like those represented in groups like Officers’ Christian Fellowship, the Navigators, and the like, are, as a group, violating <\/em>their oaths.<\/p>\n

It’s good to see Michael Weinstein finally acknowledge the truth and defend, rather than attack, Christians in the US military.<\/p>\n

However, it was probably accidental.<\/p>\n

It seems Michael Weinstein noticed the apparent alignment of some of his views with those of Tennessee state representative Rick Womick<\/a> — which CAIR called “bigotry.”\u00a0 Weinstein now “denounces” Womick’s statements, which Weinstein called “inflammatory expressions of anti-Muslim, McCarthyesque sedition.”<\/p>\n

His entire tirade is thick with irony.\u00a0 Weinstein and his “religious freedom” charity, for example, use inflammatory accusations and McCarthyesque methods in his <\/em>attacks on religious freedom in the military, though his words are aimed at Christians<\/em>, not Muslims.<\/p>\n

It is Weinstein <\/em>who has<\/p>\n

opportunistically <\/em>taken up the task of sowing division by means of galvanizing public opinion towards the implementation of an anti-[Christian] witch-hunt within the armed forces.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Weinstein <\/em>is the one who has advocated the belief that one has to be the “right kind” of Christian<\/a> to be able to speak or serve in the US military.<\/p>\n

The worst irony of all, unfortunately, is that while Weinstein categorically defends Muslims in the US military, there is a reason for public debate on the topic:\u00a0 Self-proclaimed US military Muslims are responsible for (or are currently charged in) multiple faith-driven attacks or planned attacks on their fellow servicemembers<\/a>, killing 16 and wounding nearly 50 people in the process.<\/p>\n

Weinstein has continued to attack Christians in the military, saying they violate their oaths as they have access to “laser guided nuclear weapons<\/a>,” while there is no public evidence US military Christians have done anything <\/em>remotely similar.<\/p>\n

For a short, parenthetical moment, Weinstein actually defended military Christians (against his own attacks).\u00a0 Though possible, it is an event unlikely to be repeated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a stark departure from his normal incendiary vitriol, Michael Weinstein recently took the unprecedented step of defending Christians serving in the US military. Read carefully [emphasis added, as quoted at the American Muslim]: Muslim-American service members, as well as their comrades-in-arms of all faith groups, know full well that the sworn oaths of loyalty to the mission of serving […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,82,44,85,2,5218,7,10,171],"class_list":["post-14452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-christian","tag-constitution","tag-islam","tag-mikey-weinstein","tag-military","tag-military-religious-freedom-foundation","tag-mrff","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14452","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=14452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}