{"id":44282,"date":"2019-05-01T00:35:21","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T03:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=44282"},"modified":"2021-04-01T12:36:59","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T15:36:59","slug":"army-general-takes-swipe-at-mikey-weinstein-at-prayer-breakfast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/01\/army-general-takes-swipe-at-mikey-weinstein-at-prayer-breakfast\/","title":{"rendered":"Army General Takes Swipe at Mikey Weinstein at Prayer Breakfast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-46004\" src=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/knoxprayer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"880\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/knoxprayer.jpg 880w, https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/knoxprayer-300x95.jpg 300w, https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/knoxprayer-768x244.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 880px) 100vw, 880px\" \/>Fort Knox held its National Prayer Breakfast <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/news\/313210\/fort-knox-hosts-national-prayer-breakfast-encourages-unity-and-diversity\">last month<\/a>. The closing speaker was US Army MajGen John Evans Jr, commander of US Army Cadet Command and Fort Knox. He noted the value of the liberty being exercised at Fort Knox that day &#8212; despite critics who might seek to <em>restrict<\/em> that liberty:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe gather here today, each one of us to worship in our own way,\u201d Evans said. \u201cThere are <strong>some who would probably not agree<\/strong> with those in a secular society having a prayer breakfast, but <strong>we have the right to do that<\/strong>, just as <strong>others have the right not to<\/strong>&#8230;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am reminded <!--more-->of our oath to the Constitution that ensures that we have the freedom to worship the way we choose,\u201d Evans said. \u201cThat is precious about our country and our American way of life.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Michael &#8220;Mikey&#8221; Weinstein is the leading critic of religious exercise in the US military &#8212; at least, religious exercise that might be viewed as <em>Christian<\/em>, as he&#8217;s never complained about non-Christians doing the same things. Gen Evan&#8217;s comment appeared to be addressed to <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/2018\/02\/08\/mikey-weinstein-launches-annual-prayer-breakfast-fundraising\/\">Weinstein&#8217;s annual griping<\/a> (and fundraising) over the voluntary gathering of US military troops to pray and otherwise exercise their religious liberty.<\/p>\n<p>While Weinstein and even US military troops are free to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>not<\/strong><\/span> worship or pray, he and his ilk have made a veritable living trying to prevent <em>others<\/em> from exercising <em>their<\/em> liberty <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>to<\/strong><\/span> worship and pray.<\/p>\n<p>Gen Evans accurately notes that liberty is &#8220;precious about our country and our American way of life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>That&#8217;s<\/em> what Mikey Weinstein is fighting.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-action=\"like\" data-layout=\"standard\" 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>Fort Knox held its National Prayer Breakfast last month. The closing speaker was US Army MajGen John Evans Jr, commander of US Army Cadet Command and Fort Knox. He noted the value of the liberty being exercised at Fort Knox that day &#8212; despite critics who might seek to restrict that liberty: \u201cWe gather here today, each one of us [&#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":[82,1889,6688,85,2,5218,7,237,11,17,10,171],"class_list":["post-44282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-constitution","tag-fort-knox","tag-john-evans","tag-mikey-weinstein","tag-military","tag-military-religious-freedom-foundation","tag-mrff","tag-national-prayer-breakfast","tag-prayer","tag-religious-expression","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44282","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=44282"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46005,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44282\/revisions\/46005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}