Petition available for signature, will be sent to Secretary of
Defense Robert Gates urging Graham be reinstated.
Pentagon officials invited Christian
evangelist Franklin Graham, leader of “The Samaritan’s Purse” and son of Billy
Graham, to pray with our troops on the National Day of Prayer. Following complaints, the Pentagon disinvited
Graham from the event. The change of
heart by Pentagon officials was prompted primarily by Mikey Weinstein.
The official reason for disinviting
Graham was because Graham has described Islam as “evil” and “wicked”.
The Stars and Stripes reports that the Military Religious Freedom Foundation
had been prepared to seek a temporary restraining order against National Prayer
Day if it were “polluted by someone as hideously Islamophobic as Franklin
Graham.” said Mikey Weinstein, leader of the organization.
A Pentagon spokesman once described
Mikey Weinstein as a “rabid anti-evangelical”.
Weinstein has said of his group’s purpose, “We are at war with a sub-set
of evangelical Christianity…how many?
Roughly 12.6% of the American public or 38 million people.”
Weinestein has repeatedly sued the U.S.
Military demanding punishment of any troops who openly discuss their faith in
Jesus Christ. Mr. Weinstein has lost
those cases in court.
In a breaking news expose, The Pray
In Jesus Name Project has published 27 violent, profanity-laced, and bigoted
anti-Christian comments
made by Mr. Weinstein himself, who was reportedly paid with our tax-dollars
to defame Christianity to our troops, and according to The Pray In Jesus Name Project “should be disinvited far more quickly
than Franklin Graham.”
Due to the profane nature of many of
Mr. Weinstein’s statements we won’t publish all of them here, but below are a few we
can publish:
“Our Pentagon has been turned into a
Pentacostalgon, and our department of defense has been turned into an imperious,
vicioustic, contagion of unconstitutional triumphalism by people that want to
kill us, or have their version of Jesus kill us, if we don’t accept their
Biblical worldview.” – Weinstein
Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqAiJmOdQ4U&feature=related
“General
Petraeus has, by his own hand, become a quintessential poster child of this
fundamentalist Christian religious predation, via his unadulterated and
shocking public endorsement of a book touting both Christian supremacy and
exceptionalism,” Weinstein told Military.com Aug. 16.
And by
endorsing a book that argues only those who believe in God can fully contribute
to the military mission or unit, Weinstein contends that Petraeus insults
“”the integrity, character and veracity of approximately 21 percent
of our armed forces members who choose not to follow any particular religious
faith.”
He said
that even if Petraeus offered his comments personally, that’s a distinction
without a difference. “Privately he’s denigrating 21 percent of
troops,” Weinstein said. Suppose he privately denigrated women,
African-Americans or Jews? Weinstein asked.
“He
should still be relieved of duty and court martialed,” he said.
Source:
http://www.military.com/news/article/petraeus-book-endorsement-draws-fire.html
“Either you stay quiet and let the
evangelical chaplains shape a generation of the most powerful instrument of
death the world has ever known into an army for Jesus, or you speak up. I
couldn’t stay quiet”… today we face a new danger; the rise of the “fundamentalist
Christian, parachurch, military corporate proselytizing complex.” – Weinstein
Source: http://www.moaablogs.org/battleofthebilge/2009/07/mikeyvsgoliath/
“We are a
weapon. We’re a militant organization. Our job is to kick ass, take
names, lay down a withering field of fire, and leave sucking chest wounds on
this unconstitutional heart of darkness, if you will, this imperious fascistic
contagion of unconstitutional triumphalism.” – Weinstein
Source: http://www.jewsingreen.com/home/blog/comments/an_interview_with_mikey_weinstein/
Standing in opposition to Weinstein
and his organization is the leader of The Pray In Jesus Name Project, U.S. Navy Chaplain Captain Gordon Klingenschmitt of
whom Mr. Weinstein has said,“I would like to beat the s–t out of him in a
boxing ring or in an alley behind a Safeway.”
Chaplain Klingenschmitt has now
organized a petition which will go to Secretary of Defense Robert Gates
requesting to re-invite Franklin Graham to pray with our troops at the National
Day of Prayer, and stop paying the violent, profanity laced, and bigotted
anti-Christian Mikey Weinstein who blasphemes Christianity to our troops.
“Never did Franklin Graham threaten profanity-laced violence or declare
war against 38 million Americans because of their faith, like Mr. Weinstein
has,” said Chaplain Klingenschmitt, who is launching a FREE national
petition drive to SECDEF Robert Gates, to re-invite Franklin Graham and
disinvite Mikey Weinstein.
“Thousands will gather to pray at the Lincoln Memorial in DC on May 1st
for the http://MayDay2010.org prayer rally,
endorsed by James Dobson, Dutch Sheets, Tim Wildmon, Cindy Jacobs, Janet
Porter, Mat Staver, Rick Scarborough, and myself, and I personally invite the
anti-Christian Mikey Weinstein to come pray with us, and give his life to Jesus
Christ,” said Chaplain Klingenschmitt.
Click HERE to sign the
petition to re-invite Franklin Graham.
The petition reads:
A PRAYER TO ALMIGHTY
GOD, and A PETITION TO SECRETARY OF DEFENSE ROBERT GATES:
Dear Sirs:
We, the undersigned, respectfully petition you to re-invite Franklin Graham
(who spoke the truth against Islamic terrorism) to pray with our troops at the
National Day of Prayer,
and instead please permanently ban Mr. Mikey Weinstein (who wrongly complained
about Graham) from ever again speaking at any event on any military
installation,
because of Mr. Weinstein’s extremely violent, profanity-laced, and bigotted
comments against all evangelical Christians who believe the Bible, which we
have posted below as evidence for you to consider.
Why should our tax-dollars pay Mikey to blaspheme Christianity to our troops?
Please especially ban Mr. Weinstein from speaking to our cadets at the Air Force
Academy, where he was recently invited to defame Christianity and Christians,
at tax-payer expense.
People who blaspheme Jesus Christ and Christians are not acceptable role models
for our military.
We pray in Jesus’ name. Amen.
CAUTION: Click HERE to read Mr. Weinstein’s
commentary against Christians
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John G. Winder has spent 29 years in the broadcasting industry as an on-air report, General Manager and Executive in both radio & television.
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There are really two issues here regarding Mikey Weinstein.
One: is he often foul-mouthed and intemperate? The answer to that is definitely yes. Oh yes.
Two: is it helpful for the US mission in its current wars for the Pentagon to listen to Mikey Weinstein? The answer to that is also yes.
It is critical to our success in Iraq and Afghanistan that the US not be viewed as a crusading army secretly seeking to impose Christianity. If we are viewed that way, it will fuel the Taliban in Afghanistan and the insurgency in Iraq, and get many more of our troops killed for no good reason.
I read international news pretty extensively. Every time someone connected with the US military, like General Boykin for example, makes a comment that is contemptuous of Islam, journalists across the Arab world flip open their computers, and Osama bin Laden twiddles his bony fingers and sighs, “Excellent.”
Like it or not, Weinstein is often right that the military, containing as it does many people of deep evangelical Christian faith, easily puts its foot in it when dealing with the Muslim world.
You may want the US military to be a vehicle for proselytizing Muslims, but I think Weinstein is right that it harms our interests as a nation.
All that should matter to the US military is achieving the goals set by its civilian commanders. That’s it. Anything that hinders those goals should be cast aside. That includes the goal of converting people in the 10-30 belt.