{"id":29860,"date":"2014-09-10T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-10T03:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=29860"},"modified":"2016-11-25T01:15:01","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T04:15:01","slug":"mikey-weinstein-threatens-lawsuit-over-navy-bibles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/10\/mikey-weinstein-threatens-lawsuit-over-navy-bibles\/","title":{"rendered":"Mikey Weinstein Threatens Lawsuit over Navy Bibles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Update<\/strong><\/span>: A variety of groups signed a letter to the Navy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.military.com\/daily-news\/2014\/09\/10\/organizations-encourage-navy-to-allow-bibles.html\">asking them to allow the Bibles<\/a> to remain in the Navy lodges.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Riding the <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/14\/navy-bans-bibles-after-atheist-complaint\/\">coattails of the Freedom From Religion Foundation<\/a>, Michael &#8220;Mikey&#8221; Weinstein has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.somdnews.com\/article\/20140905\/NEWS\/140909508\/1056\/bibles-to-return-to-pax-navy-lodge-rooms&amp;template=southernMaryland\">threatened to sue the US Navy<\/a> if it fails to remove Bibles from its lodging rooms:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If the Navy refuses to pull the Bibles \u201cout of every single room,\u201d said Mikey Weinstein of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, \u201cwe are looking to file a federal lawsuit.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For the record, Weinstein threatens to sue someone at every turn.\u00a0 It is likely this threat is as empty as virtually all the others.\u00a0 (He <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/10\/usafa-lawsuit-dismissed-weinstein-goes-0-for-4\/\">lost the few lawsuits<\/a> he filed many years ago, further undermining his threats.)<\/p>\n<p>Weinstein&#8217;s apparent paranoia was on full display:\u00a0 <!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If every room had a Quran, or the Book of Mormon, he said, \u201cwe both know there would be blood in the streets.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Weinstein thinks Christians are trying to take over the world in order to <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/26\/weinstein-predicts-holocaust-goes-after-presidential-candidates\/\">instigate a second Holocaust<\/a>, so his vitriol and hatred isn&#8217;t surprising. He probably can&#8217;t explain the lack of &#8220;blood in the streets&#8221; outside the establishments that <em>do<\/em> have those books in every room.<\/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>Update: A variety of groups signed a letter to the Navy asking them to allow the Bibles to remain in the Navy lodges. Riding the coattails of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, Michael &#8220;Mikey&#8221; Weinstein has threatened to sue the US Navy if it fails to remove Bibles from its lodging rooms: If the Navy refuses to pull the Bibles [&#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":[23,1307,2742,590,579,85,2,5218,7,36,591],"class_list":["post-29860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-bible","tag-freedom-from-religion-foundation","tag-holocaust","tag-koran","tag-lawsuit","tag-mikey-weinstein","tag-military","tag-military-religious-freedom-foundation","tag-mrff","tag-navy","tag-quran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29860","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=29860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}