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A chaplain in Korea and an Army officer in Germany are the latest to bear the wrath of Michael \u201cMikey\u201d Weinstein\u2019s vendetta against Christians in the US military.<\/p>\n
In South Korea, Chaplain (Colonel) Moon Kim is the Garrison Chaplain for Camp Humphreys. According to Weinstein, Chaplain Kim sent his subordinate chaplains a digital copy of John Piper\u2019s \u201cCoronavirus and Christ<\/a>,\u201d which, according to Weinstein, is \u201cgross malfeasance<\/a>\u201d worthy of punishment:<\/p>\n MRFF demands that Army Chaplain (Colonel) Kim be officially, swiftly, aggressively, and visibly investigated and disciplined in punishment for his deplorable actions described above.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Weinstein has explicitly demanded Chaplain Kim be court-martialed, though for what “crime” he does not say.<\/p>\n Weinstein told CP outright that he is calling for Kim to be subject to general court-martial<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Most of Weinstein missive, which drips with disdain for the Christian faith, takes issue with Christian theology he doesn’t like — though at times he (or his researcher, Chris Rodda) didn’t seem to know what he was talking about. For example, they noted:<\/p>\n The book\u2026singles out, among other things, \u201cthe sin of homosexual intercourse\u201d as deserving \u201cdue penalty.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Actually, Mikey, the Bible<\/em> makes the reference to \u201cdue penalty.\u201d (And \u201csingles out among other things\u201d an oxymoron.) You’ll have to take that one up with the Big Guy.<\/p>\n Weinstein also went after the theology of Piper himself, noting, for example, that he opposes the ordination of women — which, Weinstein failed to mention, is the same theological tenet held by many<\/em> US troops (including Muslims and<\/em> Catholics).<\/p>\n In the end, though, the content of the book is irrelevant. Mikey doesn\u2019t like that. Got it. That\u2019s meaningless. However, Weinstein then says it was improper for Kim to distribute it, claiming<\/em> he\u2019s pushing an ideology. Kim\u2019s actual intent should be easy to see by reading the email in which he sent the book.<\/p>\n Oddly, Weinstein never mentions it. Clearly, if it contained even remote evidence of coercion, Weinstein would have vaunted the email as proof Chaplain Kim was trying to force his subordinates into a specific ideology. Yet Weinstein didn’t mention it.<\/p>\n Fortunately for us, when Weinstein shopped the story to the media, the Christian Post asked to see<\/a> the actual email [emphasis added]:<\/p>\n A copy of Kim\u2019s email that contained the PDF sent to the chaplains was reviewed by CP. In the body of the email, Kim wrote to fellow chaplains that he wanted to share the short booklet with them.<\/p>\n \u201cThis book has helped me<\/strong> refocus my sacred calling to my savior Jesus Christ to finish strong,\u201d Kim wrote. \u201cHopefully this small booklet would help you and your Soldiers, their Families and others who you serve<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Realize this is an email from<\/em> a chaplain to<\/em> chaplains. He\u2019s sending a resource to his chaplains, in the \u201chope\u201d it will help them and help them serve. It’s not only within the ‘four walls of the church,’ it is strictly within the religious staff of those who serve the church. You can’t get much more compartmentalized than that.<\/p>\n In other words, the email that Weinstein decided not to print supports the perspective that Chaplain Kim was doing his job<\/strong>. His subordinate chaplains minister to a great many US troops of varying beliefs. It is certain<\/em> that some and likely that many align with the ideology of John Piper. To distribute the book as a resource for his chaplains is no different than a chaplain dropping a box full of texts from Islam or Buddhism off on their desks. There is nothing wrong with a Garrison chaplain providing resources to his subordinate chaplains so they can, if they so choose, use them to minister to their subordinates.<\/p>\n Therein lies a key missing metric: If this was so egregious, why didn\u2019t all of the chaplains complain? If even one<\/em> appreciated the book or saw it as a resource for the troops they serve, why deprive them of that just because Mikey Weinstein is offended?<\/p>\n According to Weinstein, Kim sent the book to 35 chaplains. Clearly, someone<\/em> in that email chain is an acolyte for Mikey Weinstein, or he\u2019d never have known it happened. After all, of those 35 US Army chaplains, Mikey said:<\/p>\n A number of Christian military Chaplains from the U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, and U.S. Air Force have asked the MRFF to represent them\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n A vague \u201cnumber\u201d of chaplains from three different services when three dozen Army chaplains were supposedly at issue? Weinstein has \u201ca number\u201d of those chaplains on his volunteer staff. He can publicize this entire “scandal” without a single complaint from Camp Humphreys. Weinstein normally<\/em> cites numbers and positions for legitimacy. Here, it seems as if zero<\/strong> of the subordinate chaplains actually complained; if they did, Weinstein failed to mention it, and it\u2019s not likely something he would have failed to promote.<\/p>\n If you go to a Garrison chaplain\u2019s office on an Army post \u2013 or a Wing chaplain\u2019s office on an Air Force base \u2013 you\u2019ll likely find a display stand of self-help, suicide prevention, and religious material from a wide variety of faith systems outside their door. There will probably be a table outside with religious texts and books of various faiths, and inside the chaplain will probably have boxes of unopened donated materials (including more coffee than should be legal). To be fair, most of those resources will probably be Christian, or at least claim to be so. Given that chaplains serve a population that is largely Christian, that’s not surprising. The important point, however, is that the chaplain\u2019s office is a source of all kinds of materials<\/em>, and those materials are distributed to lower level chaplains for their use and the use of the troops they serve.<\/p>\n Mikey Weinstein doesn\u2019t like John Piper\u2019s theology. That\u2019s nice. No one cares.<\/p>\n Mikey Weinstein wants to deny US troops who share John Piper\u2019s ideology the same religious resources, exercise, and freedom granted to all other US troops. That\u2019s not<\/em> nice. And, unlike Weinstein, people do<\/em> care about human liberties and the US Constitution [emphasis added]:<\/p>\n Mike Berry, general counsel for the First Liberty Institute, an organization that defends the First Amendment rights of military members, told CP that Kim was within his rights to send the email.<\/p>\n \u201cThe MRFF is not only going overboard, it is showing its true colors by asking the Pentagon to punish a chaplain for engaging in constitutionally protected activity<\/strong>,\u201d Berry said. \u201cCongress has recently and repeatedly taken actions to protect chaplains to share their religious beliefs.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe Constitution and federal law protect chaplains (and service members) who share their religious beliefs,\u201d he added. \u201cOur brave service members should be offended that Mikey Weinstein thinks they are so delicate and frail that they are incapable of hearing something with which they might disagree<\/strong>. Quite the contrary, the vast majority of service members with whom I served, whether senior or subordinate, were smart enough to decide for themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n Berry said that First Liberty Institute would be happy to provide Kim with a free legal representation if he is subject to disciplinary action.<\/p>\n \u201cFirst Liberty has won numerous cases similar to this before, and I\u2019m very confident we would win this one too,\u201d Berry stressed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n This \u201cscandal\u201d doesn\u2019t even rise to the level of being a tempest in a teapot. It\u2019s just Mikey Weinstein complaining about a US military officer doing his job. Chaplain Kim did nothing more than provide a resource to his subordinate chaplains for them and those they serve — something he is supposed to do<\/em>. To excoriate a chaplain for such an act is the height of stupidity — or bigotry.<\/p>\n Weinstein was most affected by the content<\/em> of Piper’s book and the tenets of Piper’s beliefs<\/em>. Weinstein’s issue wasn’t with discrimination, coercion, mistreatment, or any other act of ill. His issue was with a theology he didn’t like<\/em>. Unlike Weinstein, the US military doesn’t get to pick the religious tenets of its troops that it will support or quash.<\/p>\n Clearly, Weinstein\u2019s goal is to inhibit<\/em> religious freedom in the US military \u2013 at least, the religious freedom of Christians<\/em> in the US military.<\/p>\n And that, Mikey, is “deplorable.”<\/p>\n Also at the Military Times<\/a>, FoxNews<\/a>, RNS<\/a>, CBN<\/a>, and Christian Today<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n ADVERTISEMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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