{"id":22307,"date":"2013-05-02T03:14:14","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T06:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=22307"},"modified":"2016-11-26T01:34:37","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T04:34:37","slug":"mikey-weinstein-losing-pr-battle-over-military-religious-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/02\/mikey-weinstein-losing-pr-battle-over-military-religious-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"Mikey Weinstein Losing PR Battle over Military Religious Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"

Update:<\/strong> <\/em><\/span>US Rep Steve Stockman (R-Tx) had this to say<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cAsking Mikey Weinstein to write policies on religious tolerance is like asking David Duke to plan an MLK celebration,\u201d said Stockman.\u00a0 \u201cHis bizarre conspiracy theories and strident bigotry have no place in a sensible country.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Michael “Mikey” Weinstein, of his self-founded “charity,” the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, struck a desperate tone recently as he tried to fend off the blowback<\/a> from his ego-stroking announcement that he’d had a private meeting with senior military leaders<\/a> about “religious issues.”<\/p>\n

More than any recent event, his own boasting has caused people to take notice of his trail of vitriolic op-eds pronouncing Christians\u00a0“monsters”<\/a> or saying US military Christians are trying to institute what he calls “Plan B”<\/a> — an American holocaust.<\/p>\n

In other words, Weinstein’s “over the top” attacks on religious freedom are backfiring, and he’s back on his heels.<\/p>\n

He and a few of his staff took to the internet to push back, claiming they have friends<\/del> — er, “clients” — who are Christian, therefore they can’t<\/em> be an “anti-Christian” group.\u00a0 Some critics called the MRFF an “atheist group,” which might be understandable given\u00a0two of his four failed lawsuits<\/a> have\u00a0featured atheist plaintiffs.\u00a0 To be fair, Weinstein claims to be a “Jewish agnostic,” not an atheist.\u00a0 Though, to be fair again, Weinstein has made a pretty good living labeling other <\/em>people, regardless of what they <\/em>really are, so it seems only fitting he is now receiving the same treatment.\u00a0 Remember, without any evidence whatsoever, Weinstein even went so far as to call Sarah Palin<\/a> a<\/p>\n

homophobic, virulently misogynistic, virulently anti-Semitic and Islamophobic…premillennial, dispensational, reconstructionist, dominionist, evangelical, fundamentalist Christian.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As it turns out, Sarah Palin weighed in<\/a> on this particular controversy:<\/p>\n

President Barack Obama had better clear this up today, right now. Surely he is just allowing his handlers to throw up this kind of ridiculous, amoral, un-American trial balloon. I call on Obama to address this immediately with the American public, clear it up, and renounce these reports as the nonsense they surely in God’s name must be.<\/p>\n

– Sarah Palin<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

No, its not terribly likely Weinstein was “hired” by the military,\u00a0as the Christian Post reported<\/a> in one article.\u00a0 And while the MRFF has pushed back on that statement as well, no one has explained why Weinstein was<\/em> there.<\/p>\n

Why was one of the most outspoken critics of religious freedom given an audience at the Pentagon for any<\/em> reason? <\/strong>More than one site notes Weinstein seethes — or “foams at the mouth” — with intolerance<\/a> toward those whom he <\/em>thinks practice the “wrong kind<\/em>” of religion.\u00a0 Tony Perkins of the FRC rightly says<\/a><\/p>\n

That\u2019s like consulting with China on how to improve human rights.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There is no reasonable cause for the US military to be talking to Weinstein at all <\/em>— though it seems like he has enough friends in the senior military ranks<\/a> that he may have special access<\/a> not available to “ordinary” American citizens.<\/p>\n

Note that while Weinstein apparently had a private meeting with US military leaders about religion, there have been no reports that any religious <\/em>group did so, even the religious groups who provide and endorse US military chaplains — meaning they have both a stake and standing in US military religious policy, something Weinstein lacks.<\/p>\n

To be clear, Weinstein may not lose his financial support (he pays himself from the tax-deductible donations<\/a> he’s sent), but the demographics of that source may change.\u00a0 While Weinstein is claiming he’s not “anti-Christian,” there are some people applauding him for going after Christians — even as “mischaracterized” in the news media.\u00a0 In other words, his extremist hatred toward religious freedom and Christianity is attracting other <\/em>extremists who agree with him.<\/p>\n

One commenter noted the Southern Poverty Law Center may soon have to add another “hate group” to its lists: the Military Religious Freedom Foundation.<\/p>\n

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