{"id":44341,"date":"2019-05-09T21:35:38","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T00:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=44341"},"modified":"2019-05-09T21:40:07","modified_gmt":"2019-05-10T00:40:07","slug":"va-statement-on-mikey-weinsteins-mrff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/09\/va-statement-on-mikey-weinsteins-mrff\/","title":{"rendered":"VA Statement on Mikey Weinstein&#8217;s MRFF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VA spokesman Curtis Cashour&#8217;s statement was quoted in the <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/2019\/05\/08\/manchester-va-sued-over-bible-on-pow-mia-table\/\">last article<\/a>, but it turns out it had been slightly edited. This was the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/faith\/2019\/05\/08\/anti-christian-group-sues-dept-of-veteran-affairs-over-bible-display\/\">full sentence<\/a> that spoke to the VA&#8217;s feelings on the lawsuit &#8212; and Mikey Weinstein [emphasis added]:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThis lawsuit \u2013 backed by <strong>a<\/strong> <strong>group known for questionable practices and unsuccessful lawsuits<\/strong> \u2013 is nothing more than an attempt to force VA into censoring a show of respect for America\u2019s POW\/MIA community.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>or, as paraphrased at <!--more-->the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2019\/may\/8\/military-religious-freedom-foundation-sues-over-bi\/\">Washington Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In Washington, a spokesman for the Department of Veterans Affairs decried <strong>Mr. Weinstein\u2019s group as being \u201cknown for questionable practices and unsuccessful lawsuits<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Rough day when a <em>government agency<\/em> highlights to the world\u00a0that you&#8217;re a loser.<\/p>\n<p>Given how offended Weinstein is about being called an <em>atheist<\/em>, it seems likely Mr. Cashour will be hearing from an ego-bruised and teary-eyed Mikey about this.<\/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>VA spokesman Curtis Cashour&#8217;s statement was quoted in the last article, but it turns out it had been slightly edited. This was the full sentence that spoke to the VA&#8217;s feelings on the lawsuit &#8212; and Mikey Weinstein [emphasis added]: \u201cThis lawsuit \u2013 backed by a group known for questionable practices and unsuccessful lawsuits \u2013 is nothing more than an [&#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":[134,6692,20,2753,23,175,96,82,6693,5486,1307,6684,6690,6689,6691,85,2,5218,7,2335,17,10,171,40,324],"class_list":["post-44341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-air-force","tag-ann-mills-griffiths","tag-atheism","tag-b-24","tag-bible","tag-chris-rodda","tag-christian","tag-constitution","tag-curt-cashour","tag-first-liberty-institute","tag-freedom-from-religion-foundation","tag-herman-streitburger","tag-james-chamberlain","tag-kristin-pressly","tag-manchester-va","tag-mikey-weinstein","tag-military","tag-military-religious-freedom-foundation","tag-mrff","tag-pow","tag-religious-expression","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-tradition","tag-wwii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44341","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=44341"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44346,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44341\/revisions\/44346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}