{"id":34329,"date":"2015-12-29T00:15:13","date_gmt":"2015-12-29T03:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=34329"},"modified":"2016-11-24T22:21:16","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T01:21:16","slug":"mikey-weinstein-attacks-air-force-ignores-putrid-prayers-at-navy-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/29\/mikey-weinstein-attacks-air-force-ignores-putrid-prayers-at-navy-army\/","title":{"rendered":"Mikey Weinstein Attacks Air Force, Ignores &#8220;Putrid&#8221; Prayers at Navy, Army"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34157\" src=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/usafapray2.jpg\" alt=\"usafapray2\" width=\"880\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/usafapray2.jpg 880w, https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/usafapray2-300x95.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 880px) 100vw, 880px\" \/>Michael &#8220;Mikey&#8221; Weinstein is trying to make significant waves over the continued practice of US Air Force Academy football players taking a knee in the end zone prior to the start of their games. He has famously called the practice &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/2015\/12\/07\/usafa-cadets-defy-mikey-weinstein-pray-in-end-zone-before-game\/\">putrid<\/a>&#8221; and a<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>monstrous travesty and brutal breach of federal constitutional law&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Weinstein&#8217;s group has even categorically said these football players are Christians (how he knows that, no one knows) &#8212; and that they sound &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/2015\/12\/07\/usafa-cadets-defy-mikey-weinstein-pray-in-end-zone-before-game\/\">like the Taliban&#8230;or worse<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Oddly, even though West Point and <!--more-->the Naval Academy do exactly the same thing, Weinstein has declined to similarly malign those cadets and midshipmen.<\/p>\n<p>Worse, Weinstein and his group have lambasted a few Air Force football players for silently taking a knee before their game while wearing their pads&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;while completely ignoring the <em>thousands<\/em> of cadets who were in <em>military<\/em> uniform and bowed their heads in prayer during the invocation given at this year&#8217;s Army-Navy game &#8212; in which US Army Chaplain (Col) Matthew Pawlikowski prayed, on national TV, to &#8220;<strong>Almighty God<\/strong>&#8221; for the officer candidates who would soon &#8220;<strong>visit violence&#8230;on the enemies of the world<\/strong>.&#8221;\u00a0 You can watch the inspiring message here:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/n_DKwy-jRrQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Presumably, Weinstein stands behind his statement that there aren&#8217;t any problems at West Point because <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/2013\/02\/08\/weinstein-admits-error-endorses-caslen-for-west-point-supe\/\">he&#8217;s friends with LtGen Robert Caslen<\/a>. And the chaplain&#8217;s prayer must have been acceptable because Chaplain Pawlikowski is Catholic, therefore he can&#8217;t be an &#8220;evangelical Christian&#8221; with whom Mikey Weinstein is in a self-declared &#8220;war.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>More accurately, Weinstein probably can&#8217;t highlight the other Academies lest he lose face and (fake) ammunition. Weinstein gets traction by implying USAFA is a one-off deviant in its illegal\/unconstitutional &#8220;Christ-filled&#8221; culture, a meme his supporters are only to happy to announce is due to USAFA&#8217;s proximity to Focus on the Family and New Life Church in Colorado Springs.<\/p>\n<p>But if the practice is <em>normal<\/em> to <em>all<\/em> the service academies &#8212; including one on the outskirts of New York City, hardly a bastion of Christian conservatism &#8212; it suddenly becomes harder to justify banning it.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s the bottom line: Mikey Weinstein wants the government to prohibit people from praying.<\/p>\n<p>In truth, no one really needs an explanation of why that&#8217;s wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, with the encouragement of some religious liberty advocates, the US Air Force Academy <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/2015\/12\/24\/usafa-rejects-mikey-weinsteins-demand-to-ban-prayer\/\">rebuffed Weinstein&#8217;s demands<\/a>, and religious freedom has prevailed.<\/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>Michael &#8220;Mikey&#8221; Weinstein is trying to make significant waves over the continued practice of US Air Force Academy football players taking a knee in the end zone prior to the start of their games. 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