{"id":39170,"date":"2016-12-05T00:20:50","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T03:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=39170"},"modified":"2016-12-05T02:41:00","modified_gmt":"2016-12-05T05:41:00","slug":"mikey-weinstein-attacks-usafa-coach-steed-lobotzke-for-bible-tweets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/05\/mikey-weinstein-attacks-usafa-coach-steed-lobotzke-for-bible-tweets\/","title":{"rendered":"Mikey Weinstein Attacks USAFA Coach Steed Lobotzke for Bible Tweets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael &#8220;Mikey&#8221; Weinstein says he will <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csindy.com\/IndyBlog\/archives\/2016\/12\/02\/afa-football-coach-uses-tweets-to-evangelize\">call for an Inspector General investigation<\/a> of US Air Force Academy football coach Steed Lobotzke, because Lobotzke quotes Bible verses on his Twitter account [emphasis added]:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Unchecked Christian extremism<\/strong> is worse than ever at the Academy&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Lobotzke&#8217;s official twitter feed is filled with <strong>illicit proselytizing<\/strong> in the <strong>name of Jesus Christ<\/strong>&#8230;<strong>Unconstitutional filth<\/strong>, thy name be Steed Lobotzke&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This [is the] latest <strong>disgrace to the Constitution<\/strong> of <strong>unlawful<\/strong>, fundamentalist <strong>Christian supremacy<\/strong>&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To be clear, Lobotzke&#8217;s &#8220;crime&#8221; was nothing more than <!--more-->posting Bible verses. He didn&#8217;t elaborate on the verses. He didn&#8217;t provide social commentary. He didn&#8217;t even tell anyone to read the Bible. In fact, his Twitter feed has very few personal words. Most of the text posts are re-Tweets and a few rah-rahs for the USAFA football team.<\/p>\n<p>And while Weinstein called it Lobotzke&#8217;s &#8220;official twitter feed,&#8221; it appears to be a personal account.<\/p>\n<p>In what world does that constitute &#8220;unlawful&#8221; &#8220;filth&#8221;?\u00a0 And in what world does &#8220;religious freedom&#8221; require Lobotzke be punished for posting Bible verses?<\/p>\n<p>In Mikey Weinstein&#8217;s bigoted world, apparently.<\/p>\n<p>As has been noted here just recently, there&#8217;s nothing wrong with posting a Bible verse on social media, even if you&#8217;re a member of the military or a USAFA football coach &#8212; but <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/2016\/11\/09\/harassed-by-mikey-weinstein-part-1-quoting-the-bible\/\">Mikey <em>really<\/em> doesn&#8217;t like it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, Mikey Weinstein&#8217;s personal problem with the Bible doesn&#8217;t create an official one for the US Air Force.<\/p>\n<p>Coach Lobotzke appears to be aware of the controversy, as he&#8217;s tweaked the text below his\u00a0avatar:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-39172\" src=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/lobotzketweet.jpg\" alt=\"lobotzketweet\" width=\"278\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/lobotzketweet.jpg 278w, https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/lobotzketweet-238x300.jpg 238w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 278px) 100vw, 278px\" \/>He also posted this a few hours after Pam Zubeck&#8217;s CSIndy blog went up:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-39173\" src=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/lobotzketweet2.jpg\" alt=\"lobotzketweet2\" width=\"713\" height=\"131\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/lobotzketweet2.jpg 713w, https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/lobotzketweet2-300x55.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 713px) 100vw, 713px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Steed Lobotzke<\/strong> \u200f@CoachLobotzke<\/p>\n<p>And you will be hated by all for my name&#8217;s sake. But the one who endures to the end will be saved. Matthew 10:22 &#8230;for Andrea ; )<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s one for you, Mikey:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For <strong>I am not ashamed of the Gospel<\/strong>, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/biblehub.com\/romans\/1-16.htm\">Romans 1:16, ESV<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Do you even Tweet? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/coachlobotzke\">Follow Coach Lobotzke<\/a>.<\/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 says he will call for an Inspector General investigation of US Air Force Academy football coach Steed Lobotzke, because Lobotzke quotes Bible verses on his Twitter account [emphasis added]: Unchecked Christian extremism is worse than ever at the Academy&#8230; Lobotzke&#8217;s official twitter feed is filled with illicit proselytizing in the name of Jesus Christ&#8230;Unconstitutional filth, thy name [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39172,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[23,96,5987,956,1615,85,2,5218,7,17,10,171,5986,65],"class_list":["post-39170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-bible","tag-christian","tag-coach","tag-football","tag-inspector-general","tag-mikey-weinstein","tag-military","tag-military-religious-freedom-foundation","tag-mrff","tag-religious-expression","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-steed-lobotzke","tag-usafa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39170","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=39170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}