{"id":30891,"date":"2015-01-26T00:30:17","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T03:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=30891"},"modified":"2016-11-25T00:40:45","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T03:40:45","slug":"mrff-claims-us-army-validated-violation-of-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/26\/mrff-claims-us-army-validated-violation-of-constitution\/","title":{"rendered":"MRFF Claims US Army Validated Violation of Constitution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the years, Michael &#8220;Mikey&#8221; Weinstein has demonstrated that he is fairly adept at public relations, though he has stumbled a few times. (For example, he failed to rebut accusations he was &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/03\/report-mikey-weinstein-cashing-in-using-charity\/\">cashing in<\/a>&#8221; on donations last year, and he more recently <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/09\/update-mikey-weinstein-demands-retraction-of-expose\/\">failed to support<\/a> his claims of his White House duties.)\u00a0 Contributing to his public relations &#8220;victories&#8221; have been the public relations shortcomings of his primary foe, the US military.\u00a0 In many cases, the US military has allowed Weinstein to shape the narrative &#8212; an opening of which he has taken full advantage.<\/p>\n<p>Weinstein recently claimed that a US Army recruiting poster that said &#8220;On a Mission for God and Country&#8221; was<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>an &#8220;unconstitutional disgrace,&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>an &#8220;unconstitutional catastrophe,&#8221; and<\/li>\n<li>a &#8220;stinking poster of unconstitutional malfeasance.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ultimately, the Army told the recruiters to <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/19\/army-removes-god-and-country-after-army-times-inquiry\/\">remove the poster<\/a>, said publicly the poster hadn&#8217;t gone through the proper processes, and indicated <!--more-->that if it <em>had<\/em> gone through the process, it would not have been approved.<\/p>\n<p>That was it. And for Weinstein and his acolytes, that was enough. To them, the US Army just validated their claim.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking for the MRFF, US Marine Reserve SSgt Paul Loebe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.militaryreligiousfreedom.org\/2015\/01\/army-poster-removal\/\">explains<\/a>\u00a0[emphasis added]:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The sign in question was indeed a violation of the establishment clause of the 1st amendment to the US Constitution. <strong>Were it not, then the Army would not have acted so quickly<\/strong> to take it down.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Normally, Loebe &#8212; an atheist &#8212; would be quick to criticize such a\u00a0logical fallacy if someone else used it, but since its suits his purposes here, he&#8217;s more than happy to use it himself.<\/p>\n<p>Quite obviously, the US Army&#8217;s decision to remove the poster does not, <em>ipso facto<\/em>, validate Weinstein&#8217;s claims that the poster was unconstitutional &#8212; but that&#8217;s a narrative to which the military left itself open when it was less than proactive in its\u00a0public affairs.<\/p>\n<p>It should be no surprise &#8212; to the US military or anyone else &#8212; that Weinstein would try to shape the narrative, because it&#8217;s something he <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/17\/kirtland-afb-responds-to-criticism-over-email-bible-verse\/\">routinely does<\/a>. \u00a0Knowing that, US military public affairs personnel should be wise enough to scope the official response to avoid the appearance they are legitimizing Weinstein&#8217;s cause &#8212; something they clearly don&#8217;t want to do, given his incessant attacks on Christians and religious liberty.<\/p>\n<p>To be fair, the military may not <em>care<\/em> if it appears to validate Weinstein&#8217;s agenda &#8212;\u00a0because it may not care about <em>him<\/em>. \u00a0Given the attention the military&#8217;s capitulations to Weinstein have <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/05\/weinstein-revels-in-publicity-publisher-decries-pentagon-hostility\/\">received in the past<\/a> &#8212; including the <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/20\/michael-weinstein-inspires-congressional-action-part-2\/\">attention of Congress<\/a>, the arm of government authorized by the Constitution to &#8220;raise and support\u00a0armies&#8221; &#8212; perhaps it should make an effort at caring.<\/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>Over the years, Michael &#8220;Mikey&#8221; Weinstein has demonstrated that he is fairly adept at public relations, though he has stumbled a few times. (For example, he failed to rebut accusations he was &#8220;cashing in&#8221; on donations last year, and he more recently failed to support his claims of his White House duties.)\u00a0 Contributing to his public relations &#8220;victories&#8221; have been [&#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":[88,20,78,82,682,149,85,2,5218,7,4039],"class_list":["post-30891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-army","tag-atheism","tag-congress","tag-constitution","tag-god-and-country","tag-marines","tag-mikey-weinstein","tag-military","tag-military-religious-freedom-foundation","tag-mrff","tag-paul-loebe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30891","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=30891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}