{"id":4759,"date":"2010-04-21T00:30:12","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T08:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=4759"},"modified":"2015-06-27T19:16:14","modified_gmt":"2015-06-27T22:16:14","slug":"mrff-seeks-cause-to-litigate-agitate-and-ice-cream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/21\/mrff-seeks-cause-to-litigate-agitate-and-ice-cream\/","title":{"rendered":"MRFF Seeks Cause to Litigate, Agitate…and Ice Cream"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since the demise of its last lawsuit<\/a>\u00a0seeking an end to public religious expression in the military, the Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been searching for a cause.\u00a0 (Michael Weinstein promised to file an appeal, though\u00a0it appears he has not done so.)\u00a0 After the Trijicon scandal was quickly defused<\/a>, Weinstein made a furtive effort to revive it a few\u00a0months later–with little public reaction.\u00a0 He also tried to attach his organization to the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” media frenzy<\/a> without much success.\u00a0\u00a0Weinstein is struggling for relevancy even among his own supporters; a recent fundraiser garnered\u00a0few contributors.<\/p>\n

In his latest bid for publicity, Weinstein demanded the Pentagon revoke a National Day of Prayer invitation given\u00a0to Franklin Graham<\/a> because of Graham’s prior statements on Islam.\u00a0\u00a0Weinstein’s desire for exposure is so great that the self-described\u00a0“religious freedom” advocate undermines<\/em> religious freedom\u00a0by\u00a0essentially proposing a “religious test”\u00a0prohibiting military members from hearing\u00a0from those who are outspoken\u00a0about their faith.<\/p>\n

Weinstein’s self-serving selective outrage is a demonstrable\u00a0feat of hypocrisy.\u00a0 Weinstein\u00a0said Graham should be disinvited because\u00a0his\u00a0former statements were<\/p>\n

heinously hurtful [and]\u00a0bigoted…against…Islam<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Weinstein omits mention of his\u00a0own silence when the military hosted a\u00a0speaker who said “heinously hurtful [and] bigoted” things about Christianity<\/em>; in fact, Weinstein\u00a0has been party<\/em> to those incidents that included a speaker who had not only previously<\/em> denigrated Christianity, but also did so at the event to which he was invited<\/em> by the military.\u00a0 Weinstein’s decision to support this cause appears to be an attempt to generate publicity similar to that surrounding Tony Perkins’ dis-invitation to a February prayer luncheon<\/a>\u00a0over his views, as well as\u00a0to capitalize on publicity surrounding the recent court case\u00a0over\u00a0the National Day of Prayer.<\/p>\n

Another desperate gasp by the MRFF is so contrived it seems\u00a0like satire.\u00a0 The specific cause c\u00e9l\u00e8bre<\/em> is in a\u00a0letter to Weinstein, posted on the organization’s site, that complains of US military support for “a bulwark of the ‘America as a Christian Nation’ crowd.”\u00a0 The offending party?<\/p>\n

NASCAR.<\/p>\n

Apparently the writer thinks Sacred Power (a Native American spirituality-themed energy company), ExtenZe, and\u00a0Budweiser are in some conspiracy to take over America for Christians.\u00a0 As a\u00a0result,\u00a0US military flybys\u00a0of NASCAR events and\u00a0military team sponsorships are ‘offensive.’<\/p>\n

Ignoring the ludicrous accusation, an even more interesting detail is that the complaint is written as a public letter, but it originated from within<\/em> the MRFF.\u00a0 (This is not altogether uncommon for the MRFF; it has previously cited receiving complaints from servicemembers or others who were actually already associated with the MRFF.)\u00a0 The writer of this letter is David Miller, who has described himself elsewhere as a volunteer for the MRFF as its “Director of Veterans Affairs.”<\/p>\n

In its desperate attempts to gain publicity and relevancy, Michael Weinstein’s MRFF has become a self-licking ice cream cone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since the demise of its last lawsuit\u00a0seeking an end to public religious expression in the military, the Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been searching for a cause.\u00a0 (Michael Weinstein promised to file an appeal, though\u00a0it appears he has not done so.)\u00a0 After the Trijicon scandal was quickly defused, Weinstein made a furtive effort to revive it a few\u00a0months later–with little […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[387,4,1424,219,221,406,85,2,5218,7,388,407,63,17,10,239],"class_list":["post-4759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-akiva-david-miller","tag-churchandstate","tag-conspiracy","tag-dadt","tag-flyby","tag-franklin-graham","tag-mikey-weinstein","tag-military","tag-military-religious-freedom-foundation","tag-mrff","tag-nascar","tag-national-day-of-prayer","tag-pentagon","tag-religious-expression","tag-religion","tag-tony-perkins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4759","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=4759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}