{"id":28667,"date":"2014-03-25T00:30:53","date_gmt":"2014-03-25T03:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=28667"},"modified":"2016-09-26T12:05:42","modified_gmt":"2016-09-26T15:05:42","slug":"mikey-weinstein-calls-for-religious-test-for-military-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/25\/mikey-weinstein-calls-for-religious-test-for-military-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Mikey Weinstein Calls for Religious Test for Military Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>Jay Sekulow<\/em>: Do you think [Christian] &#8216;fundamentalists and dominionists&#8217; have the right to serve in the United States military?<\/p>\n<p><em>Mikey Weinstein<\/em>: <strong>They do not<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This from the guy who claims to defend &#8220;religious freedom&#8221; and frequently cites <a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/constitution\/articlevi\">Article VI of the US Constitution<\/a>, which ends with: <!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>No religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mikey Weinstein <em>wants<\/em> a &#8220;religious test.&#8221; If you&#8217;re not the <em>right kind<\/em> of Christian &#8212; using <em>his<\/em> definition &#8212; he thinks you should be disqualified from government service.<\/p>\n<p><em>That&#8217;s<\/em> what he wants to instill. And <em>that<\/em>&#8216;s the person to whom the US military <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/29\/reports-us-air-force-consults-michael-weinstein-on-religious-policy\/\">has been accused<\/a> of going as a &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/31\/mikey-weinstein-to-sue-after-general-endorses-mrff\/\">key resource<\/a>&#8221; on issues of religion.\u00a0 Perhaps that&#8217;s one reason <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/17\/general-welsh-no-religious-persecution-in-us-air-force\/\">members of Congress <\/a>&#8212; and others &#8212; seem to have a perception that there is some &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/25\/congressmen-call-air-force-hostile-to-religion-again\/\">religious hostility<\/a>&#8221; in the US military.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/aclj.org\/RadioPlayer\/christian-cadet-bible-verse-censored\/Player\">Jay Sekulow Live, 20 Mar 2014<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-layout=\"standard\" data-action=\"like\" data-size=\"small\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-share=\"true\"><\/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-client=\"ca-pub-6450825356098669\" data-ad-slot=\"2728423835\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jay Sekulow: Do you think [Christian] &#8216;fundamentalists and dominionists&#8217; have the right to serve in the United States military? Mikey Weinstein: They do not. This from the guy who claims to defend &#8220;religious freedom&#8221; and frequently cites Article VI of the US Constitution, which ends with:<\/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":[96,82,277,85,2,5218,7,10,171],"class_list":["post-28667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-christian","tag-constitution","tag-jay-sekulow","tag-mikey-weinstein","tag-military","tag-military-religious-freedom-foundation","tag-mrff","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28667","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=28667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}