{"id":44201,"date":"2019-04-12T12:55:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T15:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=44201"},"modified":"2021-04-01T12:46:16","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T15:46:16","slug":"see-the-speech-mikey-weinstein-tried-to-stop-chick-fil-a-at-usafa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/12\/see-the-speech-mikey-weinstein-tried-to-stop-chick-fil-a-at-usafa\/","title":{"rendered":"See the Speech Mikey Weinstein Tried to Stop:  Chick-fil-A at USAFA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-46017\" src=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/bullardx.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"978\" height=\"487\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/bullardx.jpg 978w, https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/bullardx-300x149.jpg 300w, https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/bullardx-768x382.jpg 768w, https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/bullardx-420x210.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 978px) 100vw, 978px\" \/>Below, see the speech Mikey Weinstein didn&#8217;t want USAFA cadets to see.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rodney Bullard<\/strong>, Vice President of Corporate Social Responsibility for <strong>Chick-fil-A<\/strong>, spoke to a packed house at the US Air Force Academy&#8217;s Character and Leadership Symposium in February, and USAFA quietly published the video shortly thereafter.<\/p>\n<p>If you recall, Michael &#8220;Mikey&#8221; Weinstein had tried to <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/2019\/02\/14\/mikey-weinstein-gets-owned-by-usafa-in-ncls-complaint\/\">have Bullard banned<\/a> (despite Weinstein himself having once <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/2010\/01\/29\/mrff-activist-to-speak-at-us-air-force-academy\/\">been an NCLS speaker<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Bullard gave a moving and motivational speech on leadership, specifically citing Rosa Parks, and then he took questions.<\/p>\n<p>The second question came from USAFA Professor of Computer Science, Dr. <strong>Barry Fagin<\/strong>.\u00a0 Fagin\u00a0has long\u00a0been an outspoken <strong>advocate for Mikey Weinstein<\/strong>&#8216;s cause. Much <!--more-->like <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/2011\/03\/23\/michael-weinstein-incites-faculty-against-usafa-2\/\">some<\/a> other<a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/2010\/11\/17\/usafa-faculty-underwriting-attacks-on-usafa\/\"> faculty members<\/a>, Fagin has <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/2011\/02\/07\/mrff-allies-within-usafa-continue-pr-push\/\">acted as a USAFA\u00a0insider<\/a> for Weinstein&#8217;s MRFF, and he&#8217;s indicated in the past that he believes religion is harmful.\u00a0 He&#8217;s also on record as an <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/2012\/09\/11\/first-post-dadt-study-says-30-of-troops-oppose-homosexual-service-but-no-negative-impact\/\">LGBT advocate<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/2017\/05\/01\/activists-call-us-troops-a-threat-to-the-military-in-attacks-on-mark-green\/\">political activist<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Despite sexuality having <em>nothing<\/em> to do with the speech, Fagin equated Rosa Parks with the modern LGBT movement and directly challenged Bullard to address Weinstein&#8217;s accusations that Chick-fil-A supports anti-LGBT causes.\u00a0 (Fagin&#8217;s question begins at <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Vv7pI3IRsks?t=32m50s\">32:50<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Bullard did, and received loud applause in response.<\/p>\n<p>(Craig Foster, <a href=\"https:\/\/gazette.com\/opinion\/columnists\/guest-column-afa-spoils-seminar-by-inviting-chick-fil-a\/article_2bfe6dd2-3539-11e9-94da-032c396b4d10.html\">another USAFA professor<\/a> in the Behavioral Sciences Department, also supports Weinstein&#8217;s cause.\u00a0 He&#8217;s\u00a0a self-described &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2017\/07\/13\/im-a-skeptic-and-i-love-the-flat-earth\/\">skeptic<\/a>&#8221; who has previously <a href=\"https:\/\/secularhumanism.org\/2018\/12\/is-god-no-longer-willing-to-give-tim-tebow-a-hand\/\">written disdainfully<\/a> about religious beliefs.)<\/p>\n<p>Mikey Weinstein so feared Rodney Bullard that he called his invitation to NCLS &#8220;Christian-based homophobic oppression.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yet the video of Bullard&#8217;s speech has been online for a month.\u00a0 During the question session, an MRFF supporter went out of his way\u00a0to bring up the &#8220;Chick-fil-A is anti-LGBT&#8221; allegation.<\/p>\n<p>In the ensuing month,\u00a0Weinstein hasn&#8217;t publicly said <strong>anything<\/strong> about the speech or one of his own followers trying to call out Chick-fil-A.<\/p>\n<p>Kind of gives you an idea of how it went, doesn&#8217;t it?\u00a0 Remember that the next time Mikey Weinstein tries to get an invitation rescinded.<\/p>\n<p>See the video below.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Vv7pI3IRsks?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> Bullard participated in <a href=\"http:\/\/&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: xx-small;&quot;&gt;\">an extensive interview<\/a> in May in which he explained Chick-fil-A will not be altering its donation strategies, because the good it is doing outweighs the attacks of critics.<\/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>Below, see the speech Mikey Weinstein didn&#8217;t want USAFA cadets to see. Rodney Bullard, Vice President of Corporate Social Responsibility for Chick-fil-A, spoke to a packed house at the US Air Force Academy&#8217;s Character and Leadership Symposium in February, and USAFA quietly published the video shortly thereafter. If you recall, Michael &#8220;Mikey&#8221; Weinstein had tried to have Bullard banned (despite [&#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":[134,1445,3422,96,442,85,2,5218,7,17,10,171,6671,65],"class_list":["post-44201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-air-force","tag-barry-fagin","tag-chick-fil-a","tag-christian","tag-homosexual","tag-mikey-weinstein","tag-military","tag-military-religious-freedom-foundation","tag-mrff","tag-religious-expression","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-rodney-bullard","tag-usafa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44201","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=44201"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46018,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44201\/revisions\/46018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}