{"id":33823,"date":"2015-11-02T00:35:39","date_gmt":"2015-11-02T03:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=33823"},"modified":"2016-11-24T22:30:49","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T01:30:49","slug":"mikey-weinsteins-bad-reputation-grows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/02\/mikey-weinsteins-bad-reputation-grows\/","title":{"rendered":"Mikey Weinstein’s Bad Reputation Grows"},"content":{"rendered":"

When the Ten Commandments monument was removed from the Oklahoma State Capitol a few weeks ago, Franklin Graham lamented the attacks<\/a> on any public reference to God or Jesus Christ:<\/p>\n

We have been appalled at news reports of ISIS and the Islamic State tearing down all symbols of Christianity in the Middle East; but think about it–we\u2019re doing it to ourselves here in the U.S. Atheists, activists, and anti-God groups like<\/strong> the ACLU, the Freedom From Religion Foundation, and the Military Freedom of Religion Foundation<\/strong> are on a quest to erase or tear down anything associated with the Name of Jesus Christ.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Graham was referring to Michael “Mikey” Weinstein’s awkwardly-named Military Religious Freedom Foundation, which was in the news recently demanding the US Marines tear down a sign<\/a> that said “God bless our military…” (The Marines refused<\/a>.) Notably, however, Weinstein had already joined the American Humanist Association in calling for the removal of the Bladensburg “Peace Cross.”<\/a><\/p>\n

Weinstein, who relies on press\u00a0coverage to fund his charity (which funds his own salary),\u00a0may believe that there’s no such thing as bad publicity, and his acolytes will continue to high-five in his comments section saying “If Franklin Graham is mad than your doing somethign right!!1!!1LOL!” But even Weinstein would likely acknowledge he is running a significant risk.<\/p>\n

Mikey Weinstein generally tries<\/em> to at least talk<\/em> like a middle-of-the-road supporter of American liberty, even if his actions belie his true motives. For example, he strongly objects to being characterized as “anti-Christian” even as he exclusively attacks what even he characterizes only as Christians. The reason, of course, is that if people realize he is<\/em> anti-Christian, he will lose his moderate followers who mistakenly believe he’s really just fighting for “religious freedom.”<\/p>\n

But if he is increasingly associated by the general public with the ACLU and FFRF — two groups which have strongly negative connotations among a significant part of the US population — he similarly endangers the loyalty of his non-extremist followers, which may include several of the large grant-writing groups that make up the bulk of his annual fundraising.<\/p>\n

Ultimately, the good news is that far more people are seeing Weinstein for who he really is, and far more people are speaking out against him. Fortunately, Mikey Weinstein is marginalizing himself<\/em> as more people see his bigoted attacks on the religious liberties of US military Christians.<\/p>\n

And as people like Franklin Graham and groups like the Restore Military Religious Freedom coalition speak up to defend US troops, military religious freedom prevails.<\/p>\n

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