{"id":42789,"date":"2018-02-02T00:30:14","date_gmt":"2018-02-02T03:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=42789"},"modified":"2018-02-02T01:40:13","modified_gmt":"2018-02-02T04:40:13","slug":"kenneth-copeland-speaks-at-prayer-breakfast-over-mikey-weinstein-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/02\/kenneth-copeland-speaks-at-prayer-breakfast-over-mikey-weinstein-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenneth Copeland Speaks at Prayer Breakfast over Mikey Weinstein Protests"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, Kenneth Copeland spoke at the Fort Jackson Prayer Breakfast — despite Michael “Mikey” Weinstein’s vehement\u00a0demands<\/a> that he be disinvited<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In noting Weinstein’s failure, the Christian Post highlighted<\/a> the fact Weinstein had made an 11th-hour reattack, saying\u00a0[emphasis added]:<\/p>\n

In the second letter, sent Wednesday, Weinstein…included comments…denouncing<\/strong> Copeland’s remarks and his overall prosperity gospel worldview<\/strong>, with one figure stating that “Jesus Christ<\/strong>…would NOT recognize Kenneth Copeland as a disciple<\/strong>.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Mikey Weinstein\u00a0demanded the US military take action against someone because he didn’t agree<\/strong> with the content of their religious faith<\/strong>: Because “Jesus Christ…would NOT recognize Kenneth Copeland,” Mikey Weinstein and his group believe Copeland should have been banned.<\/p>\n

He wasn’t even trying<\/em> to hide his disdain for Copeland’s religion; he\u00a0wasn’t even pretending<\/em> to support “religious freedom.” Weinstein\u00a0explicitly used his personal prejudice as the basis for demanding the government take action against someone for their beliefs\u00a0— simply because Mikey didn’t like<\/em> it.<\/p>\n

The US Constitution protects religious exercise from government interference.\u00a0The beliefs in need of protection are the ones that aren’t<\/em> popular. (If everybody is ok with them, from what do they need protected?) Kenneth Copeland has a twisted idea of Christian theology — but in America, it is his right to exercise it, without the government taking action against him because of what he’s chosen to believe.<\/p>\n

Mikey Weinstein doesn’t support religious freedom. He thinks he<\/strong> gets to decide who is\u00a0the “right kind” of Christian or who holds acceptable religious tenets.\u00a0 Mikey Weinstein thinks he<\/strong> is the one who gets to decide whom Jesus would “recognize,”<\/strong> and is therefore permitted to\u00a0publicly express their faith in a military setting.\u00a0Weinstein believes he’s<\/strong> the arbiter of the beliefs that should be permitted\u00a0the freedom to be exercised and expressed in American society.<\/p>\n

Sure, Copeland has a heretical theology, which is probably why few people spoke up in his defense.\u00a0 But Copeland has the same protections as more mainstream Christians and mainstream Christian beliefs — like, say, Jerry Boykin or Franklin Graham, or the theology of marriage. Weinstein should<\/em> have lost here.\u00a0 And he should lose when he attacks others’ religious freedom as well.<\/p>\n

And think how society would have reacted if the religion targeted here was Judaism instead of the “prosperity gospel”.\u00a0 Weinstein would have been roundly denounced as\u00a0an anti-Semitic bigot.<\/p>\n

The fact that Copeland claims a Christian faith makes Mikey Weinstein no less anti-Christian, and no less a bigot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, Kenneth Copeland spoke at the Fort Jackson Prayer Breakfast — despite Michael “Mikey” Weinstein’s vehement\u00a0demands that he be disinvited. In noting Weinstein’s failure, the Christian Post highlighted the fact Weinstein had made an 11th-hour reattack, saying\u00a0[emphasis added]: In the second letter, sent Wednesday, Weinstein…included comments…denouncing Copeland’s remarks and his overall prosperity gospel worldview, with one figure stating that “Jesus […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[88,38,5284,96,82,434,1807,4422,85,2,5218,7,237,11,225,17,10,171],"class_list":["post-42789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-army","tag-chapel","tag-chaplain","tag-christian","tag-constitution","tag-fort-jackson","tag-john-johnson","tag-kenneth-copeland","tag-mikey-weinstein","tag-military","tag-military-religious-freedom-foundation","tag-mrff","tag-national-prayer-breakfast","tag-prayer","tag-ptsd","tag-religious-expression","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42789","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=42789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}