{"id":26569,"date":"2013-11-06T00:31:33","date_gmt":"2013-11-06T03:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=26569"},"modified":"2016-11-26T00:27:32","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T03:27:32","slug":"stand-up-to-the-bully","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/06\/stand-up-to-the-bully\/","title":{"rendered":"Stand up to the Bully"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/gazette.com\/confront-the-bully-downtown-solutions-and-more\/article\/1508529\">letter to the <em>Colorado Springs Gazette<\/em><\/a>, the paper local to the US Air Force Academy:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I believe the vast majority of the Air Force Academy community, and the rest of us, have had a belly full of Mikey Weinstein&#8217;s whinings and rantings&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Weinstein is nothing more than a self-loathing bully who <!--more-->needs to be stood up to, and his viewpoints rejected as nothing more than the ill conceived and poorly thought through meandering of a perverse mind, which seems fixated on one thing: A hatred for God.<\/p>\n<p>I strongly encourage all of us not to be intimidated by his threats, but to hold firmly in our beliefs and stand proudly in our faith.<\/p>\n<p>The Constitution guarantees us the right to practice and express our faith anywhere and everywhere, and our right to freedom of expression (speech) reinforces that.<\/p>\n<p>Turn your back on Weinstein and individuals like him. He is a small, pathetic individual who deserves our pity. In fact: Let&#8217;s pray for him.<\/p>\n<p>So help me God.<\/p>\n<p>Dan McWilliams, USN (Retired)<\/p><\/blockquote>\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>An interesting letter to the Colorado Springs Gazette, the paper local to the US Air Force Academy: I believe the vast majority of the Air Force Academy community, and the rest of us, have had a belly full of Mikey Weinstein&#8217;s whinings and rantings&#8230; Weinstein is nothing more than a self-loathing bully who<\/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":[2553,4389,85,2,5218,7,36,65],"class_list":["post-26569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-bully","tag-dan-mcwilliams","tag-mikey-weinstein","tag-military","tag-military-religious-freedom-foundation","tag-mrff","tag-navy","tag-usafa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26569","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=26569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}