{"id":44992,"date":"2020-01-28T16:37:13","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T19:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=44992"},"modified":"2021-04-01T10:56:53","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T13:56:53","slug":"chick-fil-a-closes-on-sunday-a-primer-on-mikey-weinstein-and-hatred","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/28\/chick-fil-a-closes-on-sunday-a-primer-on-mikey-weinstein-and-hatred\/","title":{"rendered":"Chick-Fil-A Closes on Sunday. A Primer on Mikey Weinstein and Hatred."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.recruiting.af.mil\/News\/Photos\/igphoto\/2001626464\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-45876\" src=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/curtis2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"880\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/curtis2.jpg 880w, https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/curtis2-300x95.jpg 300w, https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/curtis2-768x244.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 880px) 100vw, 880px\" \/><\/a>On the Facebook page of the oddly-named Military Religious Freedom Foundation, Curtis Weinstein &#8212; a former Air Force officer and heir apparent to his father&#8217;s antipathy toward all things Christian &#8212; asserted that by <em>not<\/em> operating their stores on Sundays, the owners of Chick-Fil-A are &#8220;pushing their personal religious beliefs on their workers&#8230;and even their customers&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MikeyMRFF\/posts\/10157821168738410?comment_id=10157823132108410&amp;reply_comment_id=10157825694408410\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-45878\" src=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/curtisw.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"627\" height=\"208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/curtisw.jpg 627w, https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/curtisw-300x100.jpg 300w, https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/curtisw-420x140.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 627px) 100vw, 627px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[T]he main issue is that the owners are pushing their personal religious beliefs on their workers by forcing them to close during certain times\/days and even their customers. I only seem to want Chick-Gil-A [<em>sic<\/em>] on a Sunday and can never get them, lol! Why can\u2019t the owners pursue their beliefs without making them systemic within their business, this affecting everyone?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The accusation is inaccurate, of course. Truett Cathy said being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chick-fil-a.com\/sunday-video\">closed on Sunday<\/a> was <em>his<\/em> way of honoring the Lord; what their employees and customers choose to do is their own business, and outside Chick-Fil-A&#8217;s control.\u00a0 The fact the store is closed has no bearing whatsoever on the religious beliefs or exercise of their employees &#8212; except, perhaps, to free them up to actually practice their faith on Sunday, if they so choose.\u00a0 It is a &#8220;neutral&#8221; viewpoint, if you will.<\/p>\n<p>Weinstein&#8217;s solution to his self-made problem isn&#8217;t clear.\u00a0 Presumably, the government needs to <!--more-->step in to prevent Chick-Fil-A, a private company, from &#8220;pushing their personal religious beliefs&#8221; on people.\u00a0 Perhaps a &#8216;rights commission&#8217; should fine Chick-Fil-A until they agree to remain open on Sunday to protect the religious liberties of everyone else.\u00a0 That would be in line with those who think the government should\u00a0<em>require<\/em> a private citizen to bake a cake for a homosexual &#8220;wedding&#8221; ceremony &#8212; and run them out of business if they refuse.<\/p>\n<p>Because making someone <em>else<\/em> do something for <em>you<\/em> is how we protect freedom today, apparently.<\/p>\n<p>The idea, of course, is moronic, but the victimized angst provides an excellent demonstration of the hostility Weinstein, the elder Mikey Weinstein, and those like them have toward religious freedom.\u00a0 It isn&#8217;t enough for American citizens to be left alone with their religious beliefs.\u00a0 Tolerance, after all, would allow beliefs to flourish, even if the Weinsteins don&#8217;t approve of them &#8212; but the Weinsteins don&#8217;t seem to understand the word &#8220;tolerance.&#8221;\u00a0 Thus, if someone has beliefs they don&#8217;t like, the Weinsteins think the government should quash them.<\/p>\n<p>Consider that, under the fa\u00e7ade of &#8220;religious freedom,&#8221; Mikey Weinstein has declared the <em>content<\/em> of church services &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/2009\/11\/20\/military-religion-question-answered-hensley\/\">constitutional violations<\/a>&#8221; and has said US troops in chapel services are &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/2015\/01\/14\/mikey-weinstein-attacks-military-church-services\/\">what we at MRFF are up against<\/a>.&#8221; You can&#8217;t get much more bigoted than that.<\/p>\n<p>Consider, too, that Weinstein doesn&#8217;t just <em>disagree<\/em> with Christians &#8212; he utterly <em>loathes<\/em> them, and his vitriol comes through with every spittle-flinging tirade against Christians he says are guilty of\u00a0&#8220;clear&#8221; and &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/2016\/10\/07\/mikey-weinstein-attacks-air-force-officer-for-saying-hes-christian\/\">egregious<\/a>&#8221; violations of military policy, the law, and the US Constitution. They are <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/2018\/08\/14\/mikey-weinstein-targets-af-gen-john-teichert-over-christianity\/\">&#8220;extremist predators&#8221; and &#8220;tyrants&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0guilty of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/2010\/03\/19\/weinstein-decries-religious-rape-in-us-military\/\">religious rape<\/a>&#8221; who plan to take over the US and create &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/2007\/05\/01\/pre-millennial-reconstructionist-dominionist-evangelical-christians\/\">oceans and oceans of blood<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t you think those kinds of people should be opposed, even fought against? For his part, Weinstein has stated his desire to &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/2010\/06\/03\/weinstein-fails-to-intimidate-with-lawsuit-military-complaint\/\">utterly destroy<\/a>&#8221; those who oppose him.\u00a0He&#8217;s called Christianity a &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/2012\/05\/24\/michael-weinstein-fights-cancer-of-christianity\/\">cancer<\/a>&#8221; and said the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/2016\/03\/30\/mikey-weinstein-calls-for-decapitation-persecution-of-christians\/\">Romans had it right<\/a>&#8221; when they cut people&#8217;s heads off and put them on pikes. (A coincidence he&#8217;d cite the Romans in talking about his persecution of Christians?)<\/p>\n<p>Do you hear the beginnings of why someone might hear a call for <em>action<\/em> against those &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/fundamentalist-christian-_b_3072651\">bloody monsters<\/a>&#8221; committing &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/2011\/03\/07\/michael-weinstein-equates-us-army-with-racists-rapists\/\">spiritual rape<\/a>&#8221; who would be such an existential threat to our very freedom and lives?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is an intolerant time in our country. We see anger, we see hatred exploding. &#8212; NY Governor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/USA\/2019\/1229\/An-intolerant-time-Five-wounded-in-attack-on-Hanukkah-celebration\">Andrew Cuomo<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A private company makes the benign decision to close on Sunday. That&#8217;s <em>religious coercion<\/em>, according to a Weinstein.<\/p>\n<p>When you fear every shadow, it doesn&#8217;t say anything about the shadow &#8212; it says something about your lack of courage. And when you twitch at every association with the Christian faith &#8212; no matter <em>how<\/em> remote &#8212; it says nothing about the Christian faith. It says something about <em>your<\/em> bigotry.<\/p>\n<p>When a man walks into a church or synagogue and violently attacks the congregants, people wonder aloud where such hatred could come from. How could someone have such little regard for their fellow man?<\/p>\n<p>Do you still wonder?<\/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>On the Facebook page of the oddly-named Military Religious Freedom Foundation, Curtis Weinstein &#8212; a former Air Force officer and heir apparent to his father&#8217;s antipathy toward all things Christian &#8212; asserted that by not operating their stores on Sundays, the owners of Chick-Fil-A are &#8220;pushing their personal religious beliefs on their workers&#8230;and even their customers&#8221;: &nbsp; [T]he main issue [&#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":[38,5284,3422,96,4751,82,527,85,2,5218,7,17,10,171,4752],"class_list":["post-44992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-chapel","tag-chaplain","tag-chick-fil-a","tag-christian","tag-closed-on-sunday","tag-constitution","tag-curtis-weinstein","tag-mikey-weinstein","tag-military","tag-military-religious-freedom-foundation","tag-mrff","tag-religious-expression","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-truett-cathy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44992","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=44992"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45879,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44992\/revisions\/45879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}