"WE'RE SCARED OF MIKEY WEINSTEIN" AMENDMENT
PASSES HOUSE
STAY TUNED MONDAY, JUNE 17, 2013
FOR MRFF's OFFICIAL RESPONSE
NDAA 2014: Christian
Fundamentalist Congressman
Tim Huelskamp Stamping out
Military Religious Freedom
Through
Federal Legislation!!
Unless You’re a Christian….
then it’s okay
by Paul Loebe,
Military Director,
American Atheists, Inc.
Friday, June 14, 2013
Selected Article Excerpts:
- The extreme fundamentalists have convinced the members of Congress, and specifically the House of Representatives, that Mikey Weinstein and MRFF are anti-Christian activists despite the fact that over 96% of their clients are indeed Christian service members.
- I couldn’t believe it, myself, when I laid eyes on that. On the Congressman’s page it directly points out that it is going after the Military Religious Freedom Foundation and Mikey Weinstein. In fact the demonization goes even further with a 25-list (see below) about the ‘hate speech’ that is mongered by Mikey. There are even links.
- The only problem with this? The ‘hate speech’ is cherry-picked (much like this Congressman probably does with his own bible) and half the links come from hate-sites. In fact one is from a now-defunct blog that was being operated by a Christian bully in uniform. It was shut down by the Air Force because of its putrid content and hateful degrading speech. But I digress….
- Yeah. That was my friend’s response. What is the reason for this? Quite simply this dumb Congressman doesn’t know the Constitution or the Uniform Code of Military Justice. For a long time the Fundamentalist Christians didn’t either. But they are ALL learning now thanks in large part to the efforts of MRFF and American Atheists (for whom I work).
- Okay here are the facts:
- The Fundamentalists have been circumventing military regulation for years
- Mikey started fighting the Fundies and making them enforce the regulations
- The Fundies got their hatefulness shut down by military brass and civilian officials
- The Fundies cried fowl because they weren’t allowed to carry on with their “keep up the hate of gays” campaign
- Breitbart, FoxNews, and other conservative pundits spouted nonsensical articles about ‘Christian Punishment’
continued, click below to read more...
“We’re Scared of Mikey Weinstein” Amendment Passes in House
by Chris Rodda,
MRFF Senior Research Director
Friday, June 14, 2013
June 13, 2013
House passes Huelskamp Amendment and Rebukes
Anti-Christian Zealot Mikey Weinstein
WASHINGTON, D.C. – By voice vote this afternoon, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the amendment of Congressman Tim Huelskamp (R-Kansas) to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) of FY2014. This amendment will require the Department of Defense (DoD) to inform Congress whenever its employees meet with outside individuals regarding military policy related to religious liberty.
The objective is to at least expose, and possibly deter, future meetings between Pentagon officials and Mikey Weinstein, the founder and president of the inaptly named Military Religious Freedom Foundation. In April, The Washington Postpublished the shocking revelation that several Generals and Pentagon officials actually consulted Mr. Weinstein for assistance in formulating Air Force policies concerning “religious tolerance.”
Text of Huelskamp’s amendment (seriously, this is for real - Chris Rodda):
1 SEC. 5__. MEETINGS WITH RESPECT TO RELIGIOUS LIBERTY.
(a) NOTICE.— (1) IN GENERAL.—The Department of Defense shall provide to the Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate advance written notice of any meeting to be held between Department employees and civilians for the purpose of writing, revising, issuing, implementing, enforcing, or seeking advice, input, or counsel regarding military policy related to religious liberty. (2) CONTENTS OF NOTICE.—Notice provided under paragraph (1) shall include information on the time, date, location, and anticipated attendees of the meeting and information on who initiated the meeting. (3) VERBAL NOTICE.—If a meeting to which this subsection applies is scheduled less than 24 hours in advance of the meeting, the notice requirement under paragraph (1) may be satisfied by a phone call if Committee staff provide verbal confirmation of receipt of the notice.
(b) REPORTS.— Not later than 72 hours after the conclusion of a meeting to which subsection (a) applies, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate a report on the meeting, which shall include information on the time, date, location, duration, and attendees of the meeting and information on who initiated the meeting.
According to Huelskamp:
The vile and vulgar pabulum Mikey Weinstein spews would fill volumes. Those unfamiliar with his litany may wish to peruse the examples below.
- Weinstein has declared war on millions of Christians, saying on tape: “We are at war with a sub-set of evangelical Christianity…how many? Roughly 12.6% of the American public or 38 million people.” persuade.tv/MikeyAtWar.mp3
- Weinstein reportedly told one interviewer: “The biggest crime I accuse the religious right of and it’s a blood libel, a crime against humanity is torturing that concept…My response is: F**k you. F**k you. How dare you?”www.csindy.com/colorado/mikeys-mission/Content?oid=1132893
- Weinstein routinely threatens violence, reportedly saying “When I see anti-Semitism, I don’t f**king care if I live or die, someone’s going to get a f**king beating.” newhumanist.org.uk/1681
- Weinstein reportedly demanded the Army court-martial its Chief of Chaplains for announcing an interfaith day of prayer: “The Military Religious Freedom Foundation [MRFF] sought Maj. Gen. Douglas Carver’s ouster on the day Carver designated for prayer and fasting for chaplains…Foundation President Mikey Weinstein…alleging widespread religious discrimination within the military called Wednesday for the Army to court martial its chief of chaplains…” www.militaryreligiousfreedom.org/press-releases/ap_ouster.html
- Weinstein reportedly hires eight different law firms and five PR agencies to wage his war against Christians, saying “It’s time to stop doing nothing…I’m now going to lay down in a withering field of fire, kick ass, take names and leave sucking chest wounds…We are at war, I agree with my friend…We are at war.” www.csindy.com/colorado/mikeys-mission/Content?oid=1132893
- Weinstein reportedly described his anti-Christian organization MRFF: “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.”www.militaryreligiousfreedom.org/press-releases/jewsingreen_haleyized.html
- Weinstein targets evangelical Christian chaplains, reportedly saying: “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.’” www.moaablogs.org/battleofthebilge/2009/07/mikeyvsgoliath
- Weinstein reportedly threatened violence to a former Navy Chaplain, saying “I would like to beat the s**t out of him in a boxing ring or in an alley behind a Safeway.” Mikey later sued (and failed) to stop the Chaplain from publicly praying the Psalms to God. christianfighterpilot.com/blog/2010/06/03/weinstein-fails-to-intimidate-with-lawsuit-military-complaint
- Weinstein is now being sued for defamation by that same chaplain, who is accepting donations to the “Sue Mikey Weinstein Fund.” www.prayinjesusname.org/2012/12/chaplain-sues-mikey-weinstein-original-documents
- Weinstein reportedly denigrates Pentecostal Christians, saying “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.”www.examiner.com/article/military-religious-freedom-foundation-complains-about-franklin-graham
- Weinstein labels Bible-believing Christians as monsters, writing that “those evil, fundamentalist Christian creatures and their spiritual heirs have taken refuge behind flimsy, well-worn, gauze-like euphemistic facades such as ‘family values’ and ‘religious liberty.’” www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-l-weinstein/fundamentalist-christian-_b_3072651.html
- Weinstein reportedly said: “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…Petraeus’s immediate dismissal and trial by General Courts-Martial under Article 134 is not merely warranted but demanded!” christianfighterpilot.com/blog/2010/07/09/mcchrystal-petraeus-replacement-hurts-us-muslim-relations
- Weinstein reportedly called Sarah Palin a “virulently homophobic, virulently misogynistic, virulently anti-Semitic and Islamophobic… premillennial, dispensational, reconstructionist, dominionist, evangelical, fundamentalist Christian.”christianfighterpilot.com/blog/2010/03/05/weinstein-defines-religions-assigns-followers
- Weinstein reportedly believes Bible-believing Christians are like the Taliban, saying “Basically what we’re facing are Fundamentalist, Dominionist Christians that are preying — P-R-A-Y and P-R-E-Y — on non-Fundamentalist Christians including in many respects other evangelical Christians that are just not fundamentalist Christians, telling them that, ‘you may think you were Christian enough for us but you’re not. And as a result, you will burn eternally in the fires of Hell along with the Jews.’” www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18334.htm
- Weinstein reportedly makes anti-Semitic comments against Jews: “They’re bad. That includes our folks, the Orthodox, the others…The JWV has no spine. I’ve been completely depressed. They haven’t reached out at all, they seem to have absolutely no balls whatsoever. Somehow I think they and the ADL, Abe Foxman, have confused circumcision with castration. I don’t see any balls at all from any of them, so my response is ‘go back to collecting your dues.’”www.militaryreligiousfreedom.org/press-releases/jewsingreen_haleyized.html
- Weinstein reportedly blames evangelical Christians for the Holocaust, saying “I’m not just talking about the Holocaust or the Inquisition or the four Crusades, I’m not just talking about the Black Plague; it’s the transition from Plan A to Plan B. In Plan A, evangelical Christians with a smile on their face will ask you to please, please, please accept their biblical worldview of Jesus. The problem with that is, inevitably, Plan A morphs into Plan B. They stop asking so nicely, and then you have the Holocaust, the pogroms, the Inquisition…” www.csindy.com/colorado/mikeys-mission/Content?oid=1132893
- Weinstein reportedly believes religious people may not wear a military uniform: “Whatever religious belief you have Judaism, Christian, agnostic, et cetera wear whatever clothes you want, you just can’t wear Uncle Sam’s clothes. What is so hard to understand about this?” www.csindy.com/colorado/mikeys-mission/Content?oid=1132893
- Weinstein reportedly was asked if he wants to ban people from saying “God bless you” when someone sneezes, and replied: “If standing up for the Constitution makes you a godless secular leftist or an arch secularist, well, like I’ve said before, gee, you say that like it’s a bad thing.” www.csindy.com/colorado/mikeys-mission/Content?oid=1132893
- Weinstein labels evangelical Christians as terrorists, reportedly saying “We are facing a national security threat in this country that is every bit as significant in magnitude, width and breadth internally as that presented externally by the now-resurgent Taliban and al-Qaeda…We are facing an absolute fundamentalist Christianisation – a Talibanisation – of the US Marine Corps, Army, Navy, and Air Force.” newhumanist.org.uk/1681
- Weinstein reportedly labels many popular Christian fellowship groups the “draconian spectre of command influence to push this weaponised Gospel of Jesus Christ. It’s very digital, one and zero. Either you accept our view, or either we or our version of Jesus will have to kill you, and our version of Jesus will light you up on fire for Eternity, so you’re really gonna be dead.” rationalist.org.uk/articles/1681/backward-christian-soldiers
- Weinstein reportedly despises Christians who support Jews in Israel, reportedly saying: “They love us to death. Literally that. They’ve got to place us in Israel. They’ve got to make sure there’s Israeli hegemony over as much as of the Middle East as possible. They have so much to do… ‘We love you Jews. We love you Jews.’ (claps hands) ‘Places everyone, all the Jews go to Israel. We gotta strengthen Israel.’… Supportive of Israel and Judaism for their own twisted agenda, eh? That’s f**ked up, bigtime!” www.jewsingreen.com/2007/08/an-interview-with-mikey-weinstein
- Weinstein reportedly calls evangelicals in the military “a virulently dominionist, fundamentalist evangelical Christian element within the Pentagon. They would prefer this to be the ‘Pentecostalgon,’ not the Pentagon…. they don’t have the mental wherewithal to understand that to a person who isn’t an evangelical Christian, you’re calling our faith a cancer.”www.salon.com/2006/12/13/weinstein_3
- Weinstein reportedly believes “evangelicals are trying to turn his beloved military into a ‘frickin’ faith-based initiative.’ These people should be court-martialed.” www.salon.com/2006/12/13/weinstein_3
- Weinstein reportedly believes a Jewish chaplain should be court-martialed. Concerning a Messianic Jewish chaplain who may have intercepted materials intended for an Orthodox Soldier while deployed to Iraq, Mikey reportedly said “that chaplain should be immediately court martialed. He should be f**king court martialed. I’m speaking as a JAG… Charges should be referred against him immediately for a general court martial.” www.militaryreligiousfreedom.org/press-releases/jewsingreen_haleyized.html
- Weinstein routinely compares evangelical Christians to terrorists, reportedly saying “It’s a fundamentalist Christian-Constitution fight…This represents a perfect, quintessential example of the fact that our United States military has become infused, essentially, with the Christian mirror image of the type of Islam that is pushed by al-Qaida and the Taliban.”www.militaryreligiousfreedom.org/press-releases/ap_ouster.html
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