{"id":25237,"date":"2013-08-28T00:45:47","date_gmt":"2013-08-28T03:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=25237"},"modified":"2016-11-26T00:58:48","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T03:58:48","slug":"update-weinstein-blames-harmful-christians-for-air-force-reversal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/28\/update-weinstein-blames-harmful-christians-for-air-force-reversal\/","title":{"rendered":"Update: Weinstein Blames Harmful Christians for Air Force Reversal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After weeks of stewing, Michael Weinstein finally responded to Col Brian Duffy&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/14\/breaking-air-force-restores-censored-chaplain-article\/\">decision to re-post<\/a> Chaplain (LtCol) Kenneth Reyes&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/25\/air-force-pulls-chaplain-column-atheist-article-remains\/\">once-banned article<\/a> on the base website, over Weinstein&#8217;s objections.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Weinstein&#8217;s response was predictable, though it went counter to his public face of supporting &#8220;religious freedom.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Weinstein blamed <em>bad Christians<\/em> for the Air Force reversal.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/freebeacon.com\/battle-continues-over-religious-freedom-at-military-base\/\">Weinstein said<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This was the Air Force caving in to pernicious, fundamentalist Christian pressure&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So much for supporting &#8220;military religious freedom,&#8221; eh?<\/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>After weeks of stewing, Michael Weinstein finally responded to Col Brian Duffy&#8217;s decision to re-post Chaplain (LtCol) Kenneth Reyes&#8217; once-banned article on the base website, over Weinstein&#8217;s objections. Michael Weinstein&#8217;s response was predictable, though it went counter to his public face of supporting &#8220;religious freedom.&#8221; Weinstein blamed bad Christians for the Air Force reversal.\u00a0 Weinstein said: This was the Air [&#8230;]<\/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":[134,20,4179,5284,4178,4180,85,2,5218,7,1945,10,171],"class_list":["post-25237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-air-force","tag-atheism","tag-brian-duffy","tag-chaplain","tag-joint-base-elmendorf-richardson","tag-kenneth-reyes","tag-mikey-weinstein","tag-military","tag-military-religious-freedom-foundation","tag-mrff","tag-no-atheists-in-foxholes","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25237","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=25237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}