{"id":40265,"date":"2017-03-20T00:30:02","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T03:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=40265"},"modified":"2017-03-20T00:34:53","modified_gmt":"2017-03-20T03:34:53","slug":"general-julie-bentz-prays-for-her-troops-so-mikey-weinstein-wants-her-fired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/20\/general-julie-bentz-prays-for-her-troops-so-mikey-weinstein-wants-her-fired\/","title":{"rendered":"General Julie Bentz Prays for Her Troops, so Mikey Weinstein Wants Her Fired"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"US Army MajGen Julie Bentz<\/a> is the vice director of the Joint Improvised Threat Defeat Organization<\/a>. She was also recently the keynote speaker<\/a> of the 56th annual Kansas Prayer Breakfast<\/a> held on March 15th.<\/p>\n

That’s why Michael “Mikey” Weinstein wants her fired<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Advocates for religious freedom [sic] say a two-star general violated the U.S. Constitution and endangered troops when she told those gathered at a prayer breakfast about her \u201cgreatest privilege.\u201d…<\/p>\n

Weinstein is calling for an investigation and said Bentz should be removed from her position.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

How did Gen Bentz violate the Constitution? Weinstein quotes thusly [emphasis his]: <\/p>\n

My greatest privilege is standing in front of my king and my God, carrying every member of my organization to his throne<\/strong> and asking for his protection, his mercy, his love on each of them and their families and whatever are their concerns and burdens of the day. That is what I have come to believe is the essence of leadership.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Pedro Irigonegaray, a longtime MRFF supporter and Kansas attorney, used a bit of logical fallacy in focusing on Gen Bentz’s phrase:<\/p>\n

Irigonegaray said he was frustrated by Bentz\u2019s remarks and asked how the community, or the crowd she was speaking to, would have responded if she had talked about carrying her troops to Allah.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The only question remaining is whether Weinstein, Irigonegaray, and the MRFF really are<\/strong> that thickheaded, or they’re playing the part for money and attention.<\/p>\n

As is obvious to the casual observer who listens to the rest of Gen Bentz’s sentence, she<\/p>\n

stand[s] in front of my king and my God…asking for his protection, his mercy, his love on each of them and their families and whatever are their concerns and burdens of the day.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Gen Bentz prays for her troops.<\/p>\n

It would take a special kind of fool to think that was remotely<\/em> questionable, much less a violation of the US Constitution.<\/p>\n

But wait, there’s more:<\/p>\n

By Friday morning, Weinstein had found at least three other instances dating to 2011 in which Bentz said she relied on faith as a leader.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The only scandal there is there weren’t more<\/em> instances. Every<\/em> Christian relies on their faith, whether as a leader, follower, CEO, or mail room clerk.\u00a0 That Gen Bentz should say so is unsurprising.\u00a0 It is also unsurprising the US military finds it completely permissible, as demonstrated by its decision to rebuff Mikey Weinstein’s\u00a0attacks on LtCol Michael Kersten<\/a>,\u00a0LtGen Steven Kwast<\/a>, and USAFA Cadet Jake Watkins, among others,\u00a0for doing the same thing.<\/p>\n

All Weinstein has done is prove he thinks military Christians aren’t allowed to say they’re Christians. How’s that “religious freedom” thing work again, Mikey?<\/p>\n

But wait, there’s more:<\/p>\n

Saying \u201cit\u2019s her job to bring everybody to Christ,\u201d [Weinstein] said, is a \u201cvicious violation\u201d of the U.S. Constitution.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Mikey Weinstein might be outright lying, since he provides no evidence Gen Bentz ever said that. If she had<\/em> said that, it wouldn’t be a violation of the US Constitution, “vicious” or otherwise. Weinstein, who has a law degree from McGeorge School of Law, apparently missed the day they taught that the United States does not have thought crimes.<\/p>\n

Besides, with some allowance for denominational nuance, every<\/em> Christian believes their ultimate job is to “bring everybody to Christ.” When was the last time a Christian was kicked out\u00a0of the military or tossed in jail for having this core belief? It would seem Mikey Weinstein is the only person who thinks this is a crime.<\/p>\n

For his part, Irigonegaray served the role of MRFF shark-jumper, essentially saying Gen Bentz’s prayer breakfast speech had endangered US troops.<\/p>\n

This is potentially the longest stretch Mikey Weinstein has made in recent memory in an attempt to stamp out religious freedom in the US military. If nothing else, Weinstein has given the military a setup for an easy win for its troops’ liberty.<\/p>\n

Mikey Weinstein must be getting desperate.<\/p>\n

As an aside, the Capital-Journal deserves kudos for extensively quoting Weinstein’s multiple alliterative adjectives, letting the public get a peek into the spittle flinging invective standard for Mikey Weinstein’s soliloquies.<\/p>\n

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