{"id":44120,"date":"2019-02-14T00:30:06","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T03:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=44120"},"modified":"2021-04-01T12:51:52","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T15:51:52","slug":"mikey-weinstein-gets-owned-by-usafa-in-ncls-complaint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/14\/mikey-weinstein-gets-owned-by-usafa-in-ncls-complaint\/","title":{"rendered":"Mikey Weinstein Gets Owned by USAFA in NCLS Complaint"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Michael “Mikey” Weinstein has complained that the US Air Force Academy has invited Rodney Bullard<\/a> to be one of its speakers<\/a> at its annual National Character and Leadership Symposium<\/a>. Bullard<\/a> graduated from USAFA in 1996 and served as a JAG — not unlike Weinstein himself.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The NCLS is scheduled to occur next week.<\/p>\n

The reason Weinstein objects is Bullard is Vice President of Corporate Social Responsibility for Chick-fil-A.<\/p>\n

Weinstein wrote an email<\/a> to LtGen Jay Silveria, the USAFA Superintendent, demanding Bullard’s invitation be rescinded because it was <\/p>\n

another wretched example…of fundamentalist Christian-based homophobic oppression by USAFA<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

LtGen Silveria took the rare step of responding, and his email was a coyly-worded poke at Weinstein’s ignorance and selective outrage — while compared to USAFA’s principled consistency [emphasis added]:<\/p>\n

I receive numerous notes, letters and emails about the [NCLS] speakers. Each writer has a reason why some speaker is wrong for us to have. They are either too far in one direction or another\u2014in some cases I get support and disdain for the same speaker.<\/p>\n

Last year I received the most correspondence regarding TSgt Ireland. He is an amazing Security Forces Airman that happens to be transgender…I don\u2019t see any article from your organization about Sgt Ireland<\/strong>\u2014I do think it is an amazing story of courage you could share. It would have been a true shame if I had listened to the demands to cancel their appearance<\/strong>…<\/p>\n

Cadets…can choose which speaker they want to attend<\/strong> depending on their interests.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Astute readers will remember that Laila and Logan Ireland’s presence at NCLS was noted here last year<\/a> — without any call for them to be disinvited.<\/p>\n

LtGen Silveria cleverly makes the point that USAFA’s NCLS has invited all kinds of speakers from the spectrum. (In fact, USAFA has previously<\/a> hosted Chick-fil-A at an NCLS — at the same time as an LGBTQetc activist, as well as Weinstein’s MRFF representative Mike Farrell<\/a>.) Mr. Bullard is one more speaker on that spectrum.<\/p>\n

The controversial Mikey Weinstein has been an NCLS speaker<\/a> as well.<\/p>\n

There’s no indication Rodney Bullard is going to take the podium and launch into an “anti-LGBTQetc rant”. Weinstein opposes Bullard not because of anything Bullard may say or do, but because of what Weinstein thinks Bullard believes. Yet the narrow-minded Weinstein fails to grasp that lots of people disagree with the beliefs of lots of NCLS speakers for a variety of reasons.<\/p>\n

In highlighting the wide-range of views represented at the NCLS — including the equally controversial Irelands last year — LtGen Silveria has successfully pointed out that the only advocate of “wretched…oppression” in this conversation is Michael “Mikey” Weinstein, who would seek to utterly silence those with whom he disagrees.<\/p>\n

Amusingly, the subtle jab was apparently missed by Weinstein.<\/p>\n

The NCLS will occur 21-22 February 2019, despite Mikey Weinstein’s “input.”<\/p>\n

As noted by the AP<\/a>, which discreetly noted the “anger” over Bullard’s invitation.<\/span><\/p>\n

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