{"id":38451,"date":"2016-11-28T00:15:58","date_gmt":"2016-11-28T03:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=38451"},"modified":"2016-11-27T20:35:39","modified_gmt":"2016-11-27T23:35:39","slug":"mikey-weinstein-credited-with-electing-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/28\/mikey-weinstein-credited-with-electing-donald-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Mikey Weinstein Credited with Electing Donald Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the spirit of Thanksgiving, last week Charisma Magazine listed the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.charismanews.com\/opinion\/61437-5-people-donald-trump-should-be-thankful-for-this-week\">Five People Donald Trump Should Be Thankful for<\/a>,&#8221; and coming in at #5 was an unusual pick: Michael &#8220;Mikey&#8221; Weinstein.<\/p>\n<p>Really? [emphasis added]<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>5. Mikey Weinstein and the Freedom From Religion Foundation&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Relentless <strong>legal threats over the public expression of faith by Mikey Weinstein<\/strong> (of Military Religious Freedom Foundation), the ACLU and Freedom From Religion Foundation backfired when Americans raised their voices through their vote.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>At least to some, it seems the constant attacks on <!--more-->religious freedom were a motivating factor for the electoral win by the anti-establishment, maverick-style Trump [emphasis added]:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Trump spoke directly to <strong>the concerns of blue-collar families who have seen an assault on their Christian faith backed by the force of government in recent years<\/strong>. The hit independent film God&#8217;s Not Dead reflected this same theme, based in part on true stories rarely reported in mainstream media outlets.<\/p>\n<p>There was Atlanta fire chief Kelvin Cochran, fired for writing a men&#8217;s Bible study; Catholic nuns who fought the Obama administration for refusing to cover birth control in health care plans; an Oregon family fined $135,000 for recommending a same-sex couple use another bakery; and the list goes on. Without the attack on faith, many voters would not have been as motivated.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-39103 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/mikeyweinstein25.jpg\" alt=\"mikeyweinstein25\" width=\"234\" height=\"157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/mikeyweinstein25.jpg 700w, https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/mikeyweinstein25-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 234px) 100vw, 234px\" \/>It&#8217;s an interesting proposition, but its unclear how strong that would have been as an individual motivation. For example, the pro-life movement has been around for decades, but that hasn&#8217;t prevented candidates from being elected who supported abortion. Still, recency may account for an added ember to the fire.<\/p>\n<p>In their defense, Donald Trump did make religious liberty &#8212; in particular, military religious freedom &#8212; a clear focus\u00a0of his campaign.<\/p>\n<p>This would be the second time Mikey Weinstein was associated with Donald Trump; he was previously compared to a &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/2016\/09\/07\/mikey-weinstein-a-bitter-harsh-left-wing-version-of-donald-trump\/\">left-wing version of Donald Trump<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>While he has substantially less hair, Mikey Weinstein does share a couple of traits with Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Like Donald Trump, Mikey Weinstein turned his passion into <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/2016\/07\/12\/mikey-weinsteins-charitable-salary-total-reaches-1-95-million\/\">a [small] fortune<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And like Donald Trump, a lot of people think Mikey Weinstein is a bigot.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-layout=\"standard\" data-action=\"like\" data-size=\"small\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-share=\"true\"><\/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-client=\"ca-pub-6450825356098669\" data-ad-slot=\"2728423835\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the spirit of Thanksgiving, last week Charisma Magazine listed the &#8220;Five People Donald Trump Should Be Thankful for,&#8221; and coming in at #5 was an unusual pick: Michael &#8220;Mikey&#8221; Weinstein. Really? [emphasis added] 5. Mikey Weinstein and the Freedom From Religion Foundation&#8230; Relentless legal threats over the public expression of faith by Mikey Weinstein (of Military Religious Freedom Foundation), [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[3546,85,2,5218,7,17,10,171],"class_list":["post-38451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-donald-trump","tag-mikey-weinstein","tag-military","tag-military-religious-freedom-foundation","tag-mrff","tag-religious-expression","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38451","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=38451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}