{"id":43572,"date":"2018-08-24T00:30:45","date_gmt":"2018-08-24T03:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=43572"},"modified":"2018-08-24T02:43:51","modified_gmt":"2018-08-24T05:43:51","slug":"mikey-weinsteins-motivation-against-bgen-teichert-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/24\/mikey-weinsteins-motivation-against-bgen-teichert-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"Mikey Weinstein&#8217;s Motivation Against BGen Teichert Revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_42188\" style=\"width: 890px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42188\" class=\"wp-image-42188 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/mikeyweinstein2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"880\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/mikeyweinstein2.jpg 880w, https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/mikeyweinstein2-300x95.jpg 300w, https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/mikeyweinstein2-768x244.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 880px) 100vw, 880px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-42188\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mikey Weinstein&#8217;s good side, taken at the Broadmoor via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.csindy.com\/coloradosprings\/mikey-weinstein-talks-fighting-words-and-the-militarys-religious-oppression-in-the-trump-era\/Content?oid=7951485\">Pam Zubeck<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>For a few minutes, Michael &#8220;Mikey&#8221; Weinstein managed to stick to his scripted talking points that he was <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/2018\/08\/14\/mikey-weinstein-targets-af-gen-john-teichert-over-christianity\/\">concerned about BGen John Teichert&#8217;s<\/a> alleged &#8216;abuse of authority&#8217; with regard to religion &#8212; <em>not<\/em> the religion <em>itself.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>But that fell apart pretty quickly.<\/p>\n<p>First, Weinstein claimed it was a lack of <strong>&#8220;disclaimers,&#8221;<\/strong> then it was about the fact BGen Teichert&#8217;s beliefs were <strong>public<\/strong>. Then it was the fact BGen Teichert&#8217;s statements were &#8220;<strong>offensive<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Weinstein&#8217;s moving goalposts were intentional obfuscation &#8212; and a bit of scrambling for<!--more--> some &#8220;legitimate&#8221; complaints to obscure the blatant bigotry of the more direct &#8220;silence Teichert because of his Christianity&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>But now Mikey Weinstein has clearly revealed what he really &#8220;did&#8221; &#8212; and it had nothing to do with regulations or Airmen with poor intestinal fortitude. When summarizing his &#8220;accomplishment,&#8221; Weinstein said his [formatting original]:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>MRFF REVEAL[S] AIR FORCE GENERAL TEICHERT&#8217;s CHRISTIAN NATIONALIST AGENDA<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now, at least, Weinstein is confessing it has <strong>nothing<\/strong> to do with disclaimers or &#8220;offensive&#8221; content. Rather, <strong>Mikey Weinstein objects to BGen John Teichert&#8217;s theology<\/strong> &#8212; which Weinstein has oddly labeled a &#8220;nationalist agenda.&#8221; Its all part of a conspiracy, it seems.<\/p>\n<p>Mikey Weinstein used to speak in a more principled way, saying in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2006\/12\/13\/weinstein_3\">2006<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I would give my last drop of blood and my last breath, and I would commend my three children&#8230;to give their last drop of blood and their last breath to support the rights of these [evangelical Christian] people&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That recalls the overused quote that one may not agree with someone, but one should &#8216;defend to the death&#8217; their right (to say it, etc).<\/p>\n<p>But Weinstein hasn&#8217;t repeated that quote in years, likely because it isn&#8217;t true and never was &#8212; as demonstrated by the cognitive dissonance he likely has with situations like this. BGen Teichert has done nothing but <em>possessed<\/em> and discreetly <em>exercised<\/em> <strong>beliefs<\/strong> with which Mikey Weinstein disagrees. Weinstein is excoriating a Christian <strong>because he is a Christian<\/strong>, nothing more.<\/p>\n<p>Rather that &#8220;support[ing] the rights of these people,&#8221; Mikey Weinstein is <em>attacking<\/em> them.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Why<\/strong><\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>The answer is clearer than you may think.<\/p>\n<p>Weinstein&#8217;s current accusation is a softer version of another famous Mikey Weinstein <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/2007\/05\/01\/pre-millennial-reconstructionist-dominionist-evangelical-christians\/\">line<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In Plan A, evangelical Christians with a smile on their face will ask you to please, please, please accept their biblical worldview of Jesus. The problem with that is, inevitably, Plan A morphs into Plan B. They stop asking so nicely, and then you have the Holocaust, the pogroms, the Inquisition&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This country is going through&#8211;right now&#8211;a transition from A to B.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mikey Weinstein truly, sincerely believes US Air Force BGen John Teichert &#8212; and every other evangelical Christian &#8212; is part of a <strong>plot to institute &#8220;Plan B.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mikey Weinstein is <em>legitimately terrified<\/em> of the widespread Christian plot to take over the world &#8212; and he will stop at nothing to prevent it, US Constitution and religious liberty notwithstanding.<\/p>\n<p>And that should tell you just about everything you need to know about the mental state of one Michael &#8220;Mikey&#8221; Weinstein.<\/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>For a few minutes, Michael &#8220;Mikey&#8221; Weinstein managed to stick to his scripted talking points that he was concerned about BGen John Teichert&#8217;s alleged &#8216;abuse of authority&#8217; with regard to religion &#8212; not the religion itself. But that fell apart pretty quickly. First, Weinstein claimed it was a lack of &#8220;disclaimers,&#8221; then it was about the fact BGen Teichert&#8217;s beliefs [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,82,2742,6610,85,2,5218,7,1073,744,11,10,171],"class_list":["post-43572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-christian","tag-constitution","tag-holocaust","tag-john-teichert","tag-mikey-weinstein","tag-military","tag-military-religious-freedom-foundation","tag-mrff","tag-pam-zubeck","tag-pogrom","tag-prayer","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43572","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=43572"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43578,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43572\/revisions\/43578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}