Michael Weinstein, head of his own non-profit Military Religious Freedom Foundation, says ChristianFighterPilot.com is a “Christian supremacist” site containing “outright lies” and “falsehoods.”<\/p>\n
This most recent attack finds its source in a letter written by Weinstein and addressed to the Secretary of Defense — and copied to everyone from the Joint Chiefs\u00a0to President Obama.\u00a0 In it, Weinstein says a “catalyst” to a complaint from an Air Force Academy\u00a0cadet was:<\/p>\n
The inclusion by the Air Force Academy Public Affairs Office in the daily Academy-wide “Falcon Clips” email of a sectarian Christian-themed blog post…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The “Falcon Clips” are a compilation of public references to goings-on at the Air Force Academy.\u00a0 They are emailed out daily, and, according to these reports, included a reference to “Bat Signal Busted, Weinstein Declares War Back On<\/a>.”\u00a0 It would appear Weinstein took issue:<\/p>\n
Well over a hundred [posts on this] sectarian Christian-themed website have been about or mentioned MRFF, many containing outright lies about the foundation, its staff, and its activities…<\/p>\n
[This individual] is devoted to promoting Christian supremacy in the military through personal attacks and lies on his internet website.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Interestingly, while Weinstein’s letter was exceedingly specific in many details, including naming parties to his other complaints, he declined to identify this<\/em> site in his publicized letter, instead saying (twice)<\/p>\n
The specifics of this individual’s extensive internet activities and his Christian supremacy website are available by contacting Lt. Gen. Richard Harding, The Judge Advocate General of the USAF in the Pentagon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
However, other distributors of Weinstein’s information were not so coy.\u00a0\u00a0The TruthOut website (Weinstein is on their “Board of Advisers”) published a lengthy article<\/a> on the topic, including an apparent admission identifying ChristianFighterPilot.com as the site in question:<\/p>\n
The cadet reports that, in response to the MRFF’s attempt to hold USAFA leaders accountable, the academy’s public affairs office included anti-MRFF blog posts from www.christianfighterpilot.com in a blanket email containing news clips about the USAFA to the entire academy.<\/p>\n
The blog, constantly at odds with Weinstein and the MRFF, reports deflecting a MRFF lawsuit earlier this year. Weinstein said the MRFF is considering future legal action.<\/p>\n
In its letter to the DoD, the MRFF maintains that the Christian Fighter Pilot “God and Country” blog has spread personal attacks and lies about the foundation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Neither the source letter nor any of the repeating websites provide any facts to support Weinstein’s claim\u00a0this site publishes “outright lies” (or those of any other kind).\u00a0 Weinstein also fails to support his repeated characterization of this site as “promoting Christian supremacy” — “in the military” or anywhere else.<\/p>\n
In response to the complaints about the inclusion of this site in the Falcon Clips, a USAFA Public Affairs representative threw up his hands (emphasis original):<\/p>\n
The reason that blog made it into the clips is the same reason Pam Zubeck\u2019s blog entry made it into the previous day\u2019s clips \u2014 because it\u2019s talking about the Air Force Academy.<\/p>\n
But my office can\u2019t seem to win for losing: I\u2019ve gotten complaints from people who don\u2019t want to see Mikey mentioned in the clips at all, and now, we have this complaint from someone who doesn\u2019t want to see the other side of the argument mentioned \u2026 DESPITE the fact that BOTH articles were relevant to what\u2019s going on at the Air Force Academy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
(Interestingly, he highlights the fact Weinstein didn’t<\/em> complain about the Zubeck blog<\/a>, which did little more than publish his vitriolic diatribe against the Air Force Academy, and this unnamed site, word for word.)<\/p>\n