Posted on 05/01/2013 1:24:55 PM PDT by Kaslin
President Obama's new "religious tolerance" consultant to the Pentagon, Mikey Weinstein, wants Christian military service members who openly talk about their faith in uniform to be charged with treason, which is a crime punishable by death according to military law.
By employing his consulting services, and as Commander-in-Chief, President Obama is effectively endorsing Weinstein's recently voiced and written views such as: "Today, we face incredibly well-funded gangs of fundamentalist Christian monsters who terrorize their fellow Americans by forcing their weaponized [sic] and twisted version of Christianity upon their helpless subordinates in our nation's armed forces."
Weinstein's inflamed word picture helps the rest of us understand what the world looks like to those who live with their eyes wide shut and sort of sounds like that old cereal commercial... except this time Mikey doesn't like it - Christianity, that is, so no one else should. And Mikey's giving the rest of us an object lesson in intolerance by showing us what liberal secularists are about: "It's our way, or we shut you down." In this case, Obama's anti-Christian hit man, Weinstein, proposes that honorable men and women in the military who speak about their faith should be charged with a crime worthy of capital punishment. Smells like bull to me.
In recent months, there has been a push against Christianity in the military. A few notables include a military training instructor labeling Jews, Christians, Catholics and Mormons as extremists alongside al Qaeda. The Army blocked a Southern Baptist website, citing it displayed "hostile content," (the Pentagon has since blamed it on a malware glitch), and an Army email was distributed warning fellow soldiers to beware of Christian ministry "hate groups." Each of these incidents could be reasoned-away individually, but they all have one thing in common: Intolerance has an unmistakable stench.
News has it that Mr. Weinstein endorsed the Southern Poverty Law Center's recent statement listing certain Christian organizations as hate groups. He also whole-heartedly agreed with comments made by radical Army Lt. Col. Jack Rich, who told his subordinates to be on the lookout for dangerous Christian soldiers who should be expelled from the military for their beliefs.
Lauding the Lt. Colonel's statement in a Huffington Post anti-Christian hit piece April 16, Weinstein said, "We should as a nation effusively applaud Lt. Col. Rich," and said America should go further to "vigorously support the continuing efforts to expose pathologically anti-gay, Islamaphobic, and rabidly intolerant agitators for what they are: die-hard enemies of the United States Constitution. Monsters, one and all. To do anything less would be to roll out a red carpet to those who would usher in a blood-drenched, draconian era of persecutions, nationalistic militarism, and superstitious theocracy."
Gee, if I didn't know better, I'd think he was speaking about why we are fighting the war on terror.
Religious intolerance reached the proverbial Foggy Bottom in the same article when Weinstein described Christians as "those evil fundamentalist Christian creatures" who hide behind the "facades" of "family values" and "religious liberty." The same attributes could be also pinned to America's founders, whom I suppose Mr. Intolerance would also deem as subversives.
It is obvious, foamy-mouthed Mikey has a bone to pick with Christians, and he's found an effective way to get what he wants by working for the president and the president's new military "yes man" Secretary Chuck Hagel.
Our fine men and women of the military, who are part of a historically noble institution, deserve so much better but are once again the punching bag at the expense of this intolerant administration.
My 17 year old nephew was all set to join, we’ve changed his mind. Thank God
The GOPe has been part of it for a very long time. Aren’t you GOP lovers just so fargin happy about that? (not you Norm)
Now go back to watching your BGL (Big Government League) broadcast that features this week, the Republicans vs. Democrats. Just the same as your NFL game of the week with the Packers vs. the Bears (or whatever team seems to be your flavor)
It is all the same as far as I am concerned.
Period.
/sarc
That’s exactly what they want. For good men not to join. They can downsize the military and weaken it at the same time. In other words, destroy it. Ripe for invasion pretty soon.
And if someone begins marching in the streets violating the Constitution, and overthrowing the Government of the land, is it not our duty as citizens to put them down like the invaders that they are? Uniforms tend to identify the combatants, and I highly doubt there will be ONE real Christian who will take part.
That is why they will have to be listening for that still small voice that says,
get
out
now...
And they will. Watch for it, as long as there are Christians in the Military, we don't have much to worry about, but if they drive them out we got bigger things to worry about than Obama’s little army fantasy.
Russia and China will be on their way. And God will behind THEM against US. Talk about a spanking. And if you have a hard time believing it, just read the old testament.
God is real, and America owes him an Apology, and He WILL collect no matter what it takes to get us there. Any good parent has to make that choice, no matter how much hurt is involved.
What are they doing to stop it. You think this just materialized out of thin air?
Answer that before defending them further.
Does anyone remember Danny Wuerffel? He quarterbacked the Ft. Walton Bch. Vikings to the Florida State Championship. He then quarterbacked Florida to the national championship and won the Heisman Trophy.
His Father was a chaplain at Eglin AFB. Danny was about as good a Christian as one could want. Tim Tebow said he modeled his life after Wuerffel.
I don’t seen how Danny’s Father could survive in today’s military.
I see your point though plus perhaps it is a good way to keep them honest.
As I’ve said before, on too many occasions, for some reason I thought the Republican Party controlled the House of Representatives. Why do I hear nothing from them on this and other issues??
“Oh now it’s the GOP’s fault. Is your name Barak Obama?”
You know what? When someone comes out with something this absurd I have to ask.
Whose side are you on? America’s or the GOPs? Because I want to know just how many times we are supposed to sit back and watch them ignore Obama’s overreaching.
You think the very idiots that funded his overreaches and rapes of the constitution are above reproach?
Yea. I am damn pissed off with that comment. So how about you tell us when you ‘feel’ it’s ok to criticize a do nothing bunch of cave in artists and when it isn’t.
Tell us the GOP rules of engagement.
I am tired of blaming Obama. He is what he is. When the GOP had a chance to oust him, they ran a Liberal and went scorched earth on conservatives to ensure a loss.
Wake the hell up and see the problem before you.
Mikey Weinstein?
Sounds like an Irish Jew.
No doubt, and yet I would not want my very Christian nephew to be in the mix of this nest.
Something is going to give, it’s inevitable.
Ayn Rand shoots that down rather well.
You do know Ayn Rand, one of the most vocal supporters of individual rights and critic of big government, was an atheist, yes? Her followers are mostly atheist, yet five minutes on the Ayn Rand Institute, Voices for Reason, and Capitalism.com will show you how devoted they are to individual rights.
And for the record, this disgusts me to no end and I just sent Weinstein my opinion of him on Facebook.
The awful proof that our military is being de-spiritualized is the soaring military suicide rate, which since more than four years ago has exceeded annually the number of service connected deaths due to enemy action.
Current command guidance for `suicide prevention’ makes absolutely no mention of the role of religious faith in granting to those who believe, the spiritual strength to resist adversity & despair.
People of faith are far, far less likely to kill themselves. Now, atheist FReepers, it is entirely possible to maintain one’s own survival based on nothing more than rock-solid inner resources, got it.
But as one of the more tolerant among you stated, individuals should not be deprived of their right to express their faith nor to draw solace therefrom.
This Mikey Weinstein is a raging anti-Christian fanatic. He probably isn’t too keen on observant Jews, either.
It’s obvious that he is delusional and in need of psych help. Besides, what grown man calls himself “Mikey”?
“I am advising young Americans NOT to join the U.S. military.”
No, they should join. Serve quietly, and observe. Learn well. Become very skilled. Then when this budding revolutionary guard is turned against the populace, they will better understand how to throw sand in the gears. If they happen to be in service at the time, so much the better.
Corrode the revolutionary sodomite enemy from within, the way they have us.
The military being unable to fully trust it’s own formations to attack Americans is a wonderful thing.
God can protect His own and do what He wants to do, where He wants to do it.
Naturally. She’s an atheist. They had no influence in The Founding.
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