{"id":22710,"date":"2013-05-15T02:43:26","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T05:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=22710"},"modified":"2016-11-26T01:31:20","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T04:31:20","slug":"sally-quinn-shills-for-michael-weinstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/15\/sally-quinn-shills-for-michael-weinstein\/","title":{"rendered":"Sally Quinn Shills for Michael Weinstein"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case you were wondering why <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/29\/reports-us-air-force-consults-michael-weinstein-on-religious-policy\/\">the Washington Post blog on Michael Weinstein&#8217;s<\/a> visit to the Pentagon made him out to be so &#8220;heroic&#8221; &#8212; and never once raised a critical eye to his cause &#8212;\u00a0it&#8217;s because the author, Sally Quinn, <em>supports <\/em>his cause.<\/p>\n<p>In her recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courier-journal.com\/article\/20130507\/OPINION04\/305070021\/Sally-Quinn-My-petition-National-Day-Prayer-Reason\">commentary on the National Day of Prayer<\/a>, Quinn calls the National Day of Prayer &#8220;unconstitutional&#8221;, and she spends most of her column lightly mocking Greg Laurie&#8217;s call for a national religious revival.\u00a0 Tellingly, she never pauses to acknowledge Laurie&#8217;s liberty to make such statements.<\/p>\n<p>Quinn also criticized the US Army at Fort Leonard Wood for <!--more-->inviting David Barton to be the speaker at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/fortleonardwoodmissouri#!\/fortleonardwoodmissouri\/posts\/10151404382380028\">their NDoP event<\/a>, though she doesn&#8217;t explicitly say <em>why<\/em> she makes that criticism.\u00a0 She got the information about Barton from Michael Weinstein&#8217;s MRFF, along with this tidbit:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the military, the subtle and not-so-subtle pressure to attend a prayer breakfast is enormous, and a person\u2019s career can be seriously hurt by not participating.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ah yes, the alleys of America are littered with the wrecked careers of those who missed the post Prayer Breakfast.\u00a0 She provides this evidence to support her statement:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And that&#8217;s about what her commentary is worth, too.<\/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>In case you were wondering why the Washington Post blog on Michael Weinstein&#8217;s visit to the Pentagon made him out to be so &#8220;heroic&#8221; &#8212; and never once raised a critical eye to his cause &#8212;\u00a0it&#8217;s because the author, Sally Quinn, supports his cause. 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