{"id":25303,"date":"2013-09-18T00:30:08","date_gmt":"2013-09-18T03:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=25303"},"modified":"2016-11-26T00:45:13","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T03:45:13","slug":"weinstein-praises-generals-metamorphosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/18\/weinstein-praises-generals-metamorphosis\/","title":{"rendered":"Weinstein Praises General’s “Metamorphosis”"},"content":{"rendered":"

As previously noted<\/a>, Michael Weinstein had suddenly softened his tone on LtGen Robert Caslen when he found out Caslen was slated to lead the US Military Academy at West Point.<\/p>\n

During Gen Caslen\u2019s involvement in the Christian Embassy controversy<\/a> in 2006, Weinstein said those involved in the scandal were equivalent to al Qaida<\/a>, Iraqi militant Muqtada al Sadr, and deserved to be court-martialed<\/a>.\u00a0 Two years later, Weinstein essentially accused Gen Caslen of fomenting insurrection<\/a> at the hands of a Christian army, and said the Army was promoting \u201cfundamentalist Christianity\u201d by promoting Gen Caslen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Weinstein’s self-serving “about face” has already been discussed.\u00a0 What is interesting this<\/em> time is Weinstein’s continuation of the faux praise for the General’s\u00a0“metamorphosis”\u00a0— while he cites absolutely no reason for<\/em> or characteristic of<\/em> LtGen Caslen’s alleged ‘reversal.’<\/p>\n

After first reminding people the MRFF once accused General Caslen of “sedition” — a criminal accusation for which he does not apologize —\u00a0Weinstein then says:\u00a0 <\/p>\n

Caslen, however, has remarkably proven himself to be a very special soldier of an entirely different breed…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Weinstein then brags on the “one hour and 45 minute meeting” he had in Caslen’s “well-appointed office” and claims [emphasis added]:<\/p>\n

His totally unforeseen transformation<\/strong><\/span> from a militant, dogmatic evangelical Christian fundamentalist<\/strong> into an exemplary illustration of professionalism tempered by Constitutional compliance<\/strong> was surely an organic and painful process, one borne of excruciating, gut-wrenching introspection, self-examination, and auto-criticism…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Note that nowhere does Weinstein cite an actual change<\/em> in Gen Caslen — Weinstein only cites his own change of opinion<\/em>.\u00a0 Weinstein’s baseless characterization —\u00a0that Caslen\u00a0has gone through a “metamorphosis” and is\u00a0now<\/em> a “good” Christian (by Weinstein’s definition<\/a>) — is actually a silent indictment against himself<\/em>:\u00a0 LtGen Caslen didn’t change — he was always<\/em> an “exemplary illustration of professionalism.”<\/p>\n

Weinstein — self-proclaimed defender of religious liberty — was just too blinded by hatred of General Caslen’s religious faith\u00a0to see it.<\/p>\n

Now that LtGen Caslen has been recognized for his military leadership and promoted and confirmed by the US Senate — twice — Weinstein has simply decided to “join” what he cannot beat.<\/p>\n

As an aside, it is interesting to note the Associated Press (and thus all who repeated their work) referred to Weinstein not as a ‘civil rights activist,’ but as a “religious critic<\/a>.”\u00a0 It seems they’ve figured out what he’d known for, and it isn’t religious freedom.<\/p>\n

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