{"id":43140,"date":"2018-04-20T22:00:28","date_gmt":"2018-04-21T01:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=43140"},"modified":"2018-04-28T23:25:14","modified_gmt":"2018-04-29T02:25:14","slug":"breaking-navy-rebuffs-mikey-weinstein-over-missing-man-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/20\/breaking-navy-rebuffs-mikey-weinstein-over-missing-man-bible\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking: Navy Rebuffs Mikey Weinstein over Missing Man Bible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Update<\/strong><\/span>: In response to this denial, Mikey Weinstein is now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.military.com\/daily-news\/2018\/04\/27\/group-seeks-add-multiple-religious-texts-pow-mia-display.html\">demanding<\/a> the POW\/MIA table be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/pacific\/group-seeks-to-add-texts-from-a-dozen-other-faiths-to-okinawa-pow-mia-display-with-bible-1.524223\">piled<\/a> with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/military\/sd-me-missing-man-20180426-story.html\">books<\/a> of various other spiritualities.\u00a0 This is standard Weinstein fare (he&#8217;s used it before) for trying to try to milk the &#8220;controversy&#8221; timeline and make the situation as annoying as possible in hopes he&#8217;ll be placated.\u00a0 Meanwhile, <em>who<\/em>, precisely, is being &#8220;honored&#8221; by this?<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>As reported at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/military\/sd-me-bible-controversy-20180420-story.html\">San Diego Tribune<\/a>, the US Navy has rebuffed Michael &#8220;Mikey&#8221; Weinstein&#8217;s attempt to have a POW\/MIA display &#8220;investigated&#8221; because it contained a Bible:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a letter dated April 17 and mailed to New York attorney Donald G. Rehkopf Jr., San Diego-based Rear Adm. Paul D. Pearigen said that \u201c<strong>neither further review nor an investigation of this matter is necessary<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Initially, it <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/2018\/04\/10\/mikey-weinstein-goes-after-okinawa-pow-bible-again\/\">appeared the Navy<\/a> had asked &#8220;how high?&#8221; when Weinstein <!--more-->had demanded they jump.\u00a0 Now it seems they&#8217;ve reconsidered their acquiescence to his vitriol.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast to his celebratory cries when the Navy had implied it was, indeed, &#8220;investigating&#8221; has he had demanded, the normally bellicose Weinstein\u00a0has been oddly silent about his stinging defeat.<\/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-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>Update: In response to this denial, Mikey Weinstein is now demanding the POW\/MIA table be piled with books of various other spiritualities.\u00a0 This is standard Weinstein fare (he&#8217;s used it before) for trying to try to milk the &#8220;controversy&#8221; timeline and make the situation as annoying as possible in hopes he&#8217;ll be placated.\u00a0 Meanwhile, who, precisely, is being &#8220;honored&#8221; by [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[23,6548,5024,5284,96,4,149,85,2,5218,5487,7,6550,1060,6551,2335,17,10,171],"class_list":["post-43140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-bible","tag-camp-butler","tag-camp-hansen","tag-chaplain","tag-christian","tag-churchandstate","tag-marines","tag-mikey-weinstein","tag-military","tag-military-religious-freedom-foundation","tag-missing-man","tag-mrff","tag-national-league-of-pow-mia-families","tag-okinawa","tag-paul-pearigen","tag-pow","tag-religious-expression","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43140","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=43140"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43199,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43140\/revisions\/43199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}