{"id":36185,"date":"2016-09-09T00:30:25","date_gmt":"2016-09-09T03:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=36185"},"modified":"2016-11-24T20:59:47","modified_gmt":"2016-11-24T23:59:47","slug":"west-point-pulls-football-prayer-video-after-complaint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/09\/west-point-pulls-football-prayer-video-after-complaint\/","title":{"rendered":"West Point Pulls Football Prayer Video after Complaint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Saturday, the US Military Academy football team posted a video of the celebration following their win over Temple. The video included the players kneeling in prayer in the locker room.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-36186\" src=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/usmaprayer.jpg\" alt=\"usmaprayer\" width=\"617\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/usmaprayer.jpg 617w, https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/usmaprayer-300x259.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 617px) 100vw, 617px\" \/>Michael &#8220;Mikey&#8221; Weinstein <a href=\"https:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/articles\/army-west-point-football-prayer-jeff-monken-mikey-weinstein\">wasn&#8217;t having it<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Officials with the U.S. Military Academy pulled <!--more-->a video clip of the football team\u2019s postgame locker-room celebration offline Monday and have launched an inquiry into whether a team prayer violated players\u2019 rights to religious freedom&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Military Religious Freedom Foundation president Mikey Weinstein said he reached out to academy superintendent Lt. Gen. Robert Caslen on Monday to discuss the post. It was taken down shortly thereafter&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Interestingly, Weinstein is <em>not<\/em> upset &#8212; because he claims he has a special relationship with USMA Superintendent LtGen Robert Caslen, whom Weinstein once accused of sedition but whom he now indicates supports the MRFF cause.\u00a0 (Ironically, Weinstein has <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/2015\/09\/03\/mikey-weinstein-has-lunch-with-pam-zubeck-film-at-11\/\">previously implied<\/a> these kinds of &#8220;problems&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/2015\/12\/29\/mikey-weinstein-attacks-air-force-ignores-putrid-prayers-at-navy-army\/\">didn&#8217;t exist at West Point<\/a> <em>because<\/em> of his relationship with LtGen Caslen.)<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, Weinstein seemed to have a pulse on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\/2016\/09\/08\/army-pulls-postgame-football-video-after-prayer-complaints.html\">exactly how the Military Academy was reacting<\/a> [emphasis added]:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Weinstein&#8230;said he was expecting <strong>Monken to offer an apology<\/strong> later Thursday&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Weinstein said Army athletic director <strong>Boo Corrigan was putting procedures in place<\/strong> with all coaches at the academy that will prevent a similar situation from happening. <strong>Because of his relationship with Caslen<\/strong>, Weinstein said he does not plan to file a third-party inspector general&#8217;s complaint on the issue.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The West Point football team cadets aren&#8217;t preschoolers, nor are they subordinates ordered to kneel in piety by a commander. Ultimately, though, it doesn&#8217;t matter.<\/p>\n<p>Remember that Weinstein made <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/2015\/12\/07\/usafa-cadets-defy-mikey-weinstein-pray-in-end-zone-before-game\/\">similar accusations against the Air Force Academy<\/a> cadets who knelt in the end zone prior to the game. It wasn&#8217;t the threat of coercion or endorsement or preference that upset Weinstein.<\/p>\n<p>It was the fact they <em>prayed<\/em>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=1+Thessalonians+5%3A16-18&amp;version=ESV\">1 Thessalonians 5:16-18<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\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>Last Saturday, the US Military Academy football team posted a video of the celebration following their win over Temple. The video included the players kneeling in prayer in the locker room. Michael &#8220;Mikey&#8221; Weinstein wasn&#8217;t having it: Officials with the U.S. Military Academy pulled<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[5758,956,5757,85,2,5218,7,11,17,10,171,258,101],"class_list":["post-36185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-boo-corrigan","tag-football","tag-jeff-monken","tag-mikey-weinstein","tag-military","tag-military-religious-freedom-foundation","tag-mrff","tag-prayer","tag-religious-expression","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-robert-caslen","tag-west-point"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36185","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=36185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}