Former WH Lawyer fighting christian proselytizing in Military

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Marching as to War
Former Air Force Officer Mikey Weinstein Zeroes In on Proselytizing in the Military
By Alan Cooperman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, July 16, 2006; Page D01

Porcelain figurines are perched on the mantelpiece behind Mikey Weinstein. Guests are seated on chintz couches in front of him. It's a nice crowd at a polite fundraising party. But Mikey -- his friends, his enemies, even complete strangers call him "Mikey" -- has had it with nice.

He's done with polite.

"We've created this foundation to be a weapon. We're going to lay down a withering field of fire and leave sucking chest wounds," he says, glaring through the floor-to-ceiling windows of an Arlington high-rise at a panoramic view of Washington. Weinstein, 51, was once a White House lawyer who defended the Reagan administration during the Iran-contra investigation. Three generations of his family -- his father, himself, both of his sons and a daughter-in-law -- have gone to U.S. military academies.

Now he's declaring war against what, for him, is an improbable enemy: the defense establishment. He is suing the Air Force in federal court, demanding a permanent injunction against alleged religious favoritism and proselytizing in the service. He has also formed a nonprofit organization, the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, to combat what he sees as a concerted effort by evangelical Christian organizations to treat the armed forces as a mission field, ripe for conversions.

Lots more:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/15/AR2006071501032.html

[kenny blankenship]

1. Can someone please explain the fixation Christians have with football

and soldiering--two activities which are about as far from the example of Jesus Christ as it's possible to get?

[ChristianLibrul]

2. Stop using "christians"

...when you talk about theofascists. They're two very different groups.

[SpiralHawk]

4. The correct term is christo-cronies

They have nothing to do with Christ, other than to use his name blasphemously in the service of their Domination-and-Control, fear-based approach to life.

[UTUSN]

3. K&R for glory be n/t