This Week in Christian Nationalism

Well, we don’t have to wait until July 15 to find out why Maj. Jonathan C. Dowty’s “Christian Fighter Pilot” blog was “discontinued.” It’s back up — and with a hilariously unbelievable reason for why it was down:

“In late May the code behind God and Country was “compromised.” While it would be entertaining to try to pin blame on those who disagree with the message of military religious freedom, it was more likely the product of nefarious mass marketers wanting to sell knock-off purses. The site was taken offline while the compromised code was removed. Fortunately, a delay to the planned 15 July re-launch date was unnecessary.”

Does Maj. Dowty seriously think anyone is going to believe that his site was taken offline while compromised code was removed? That would only be plausible if his entire site was taken offline. But it wasn’t. Only the blog on his site was taken offline, and even that was done in selective stages.

On June 7, I wrote that all the posts on Maj. Dowty’s blog that were about “homosexuals” had been removed. His blog was still up, along with everything else at his christianfighterpilot.com domain, which includes many other pages besides his blog. His site was not taken offline. And nothing else was removed from his blog at that time except his countless gay-bashing rants. All the rest of his posts were still there.

In addition to the targeted removal of only posts about “homosexuals,” Todd Starnes, Maj. Dowty’s friend at FOX News, had written an article titled “Congressman: Troops Being Punished For Expressing Religious Faith,” in which he included the following in a list of examples of Christian persecution:

“A service member received a ‘severe and possibly career-ending reprimand’ for expressing his faith’s religious position about homosexuality in a personal religious blog.”

As I wrote in my previous post, Starnes did not mention Maj. Dowty or his “Christian Fighter Pilot” blog by name, but what other blogger who Starnes would even know about had just removed all of his posts about “homosexuals” from his blog?

It wasn’t until a few days later that Maj. Dowty took the rest of his blog offline. As I wrote on June 10, if you went to his christianfighterpilot.com website at that time and clicked on any of the links on his homepage that led to posts on his blog, you got a page titled ”Christian Fighter Pilot Forum Discontinued” with a message that said:

“The God and Country blog has been temporarily disabled. Please return on 15 July for an update.”

Even at this time, the rest of Maj. Dowty’s site was not offline. Everything else was still there. Only his blog was disabled.

As of this morning, the major’s blog is back up — but all of his posts about the “homosexuals” are still gone. This can lead me to only one conclusion. While Maj. Dowty does not want to blame the “compromised code” that he claims to be the reason for temporarily disabling his blog on some nefarious tampering by those who disagree with his message of Christian love, he does allow for the possibility of this alleged “compromised code” coming from people selling purses. And who would be selling purses? Why, those purse-toting “homosexuals,” of course!

On June 13, Congressman Tim Huelskamp (R-KS) introduced an amendment to the FY2014 National Defense Authorization Act. Huelskamp’s amendment, with the heading “Meetings with Respect to Religious Liberty,” was passed by a voice vote in the House.

This is the text of Congressman Huelskamp’s amendment:

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.

Congressman Huelskamp, in a press release on his website, made no secret that the sole purpose of his amendment is to stop one man — Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) founder and president Mikey Weinstein — from secretly meeting with military officials to help orchestrate the Pentagon’s diabolical plan to hunt down and persecute all Christians in the military.

After finding out about a super-secret April 23 meeting between Weinstein and Pentagon officials — a meeting so secret that Weinstein, along with other meeting attendees MRFF board member Joe Wilson (the former ambassador) and advisory board member Col. Larry Wilkerson (Colin Powell’s former chief of staff), told the Washington Post all about it — Congressman Huelskamp obviously had to take action to stop such covert shenanigans.

Once the rest of us at MRFF finished congratulating Mikey on being so scary that someone had made him the subject of an amendment to a Defense Authorization Bill, we did stop laughing long enough to seriously consider what Huelskamp’s amendment, if it does end up remaining in the bill and being signed into law, would actually mean.

Upon careful consideration of the wording of Huelskamp’s amendment, MRFF has decided to fully support this amendment. Why, you ask? Well, let me explain.

Despite Congressman Huelskamp’s blatant admission that the sole target of his amendment is Mikey Weinstein, this amendment, should it be signed into law, would to apply to everyone — not just to the object of Huelskamp’s affectations.

We at MRFF have long wished that the countless meetings that have no doubt occurred, and continue to occur, between military officials and civilians from the various fundamentalist Christian parachurch organizations, the civilian fundamentalist Christian organizations and individuals that are funded by DoD contracts to bring the troops to Jesus, the civilian fundamentalist Christian youth ministries that are granted permission to operate on military installations for the purpose of stalking and converting the children of “unchurched” military personnel, the civilians involved in the implementation of the military-wide glut of “spiritual fitness” tests and programs, etc., were not permitted to be kept secret.

All of these types of religious activities, programs, military spending, and the policies that allow them, are defended by their supporters as being necessary for the religious liberty of our troops, and the approval and implementation of such activities, programs, military spending, and policies would certainly require meetings between DoD employees and the civilian organizations and individuals involved. Therefore, the countless meetings that must take place between DoD employees and members of these civilian religious organizations and parachurch military ministries would clearly fit the criteria 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” found in Congressman Huelskamp’s amendment.

As Mikey Weinstein has no reason or desire to hide any meetings he might have with military officials, MRFF has no reservations whatsoever about supporting Congressman Huelskamp’s amendment. The fundamentalist Christian organizations and parachurch military ministries that meet with military officials, on the other hand, might not be so thrilled with the prospect. But Huelskamp and his cohorts in Congress, the right-wing media, and certain so-called “religious liberty” organizations have never had a good grasp of the concept of things working both ways.

Take, for example, Congressman John Fleming (R-LA). Like Congressman Huelskamp, who included a list of twenty-five (mostly out of context) Mikey quotes in his press release about his amendment, Congressman Fleming has also made much of Weinstein’s somewhat colorful language and use of metaphors. A particular favorite of this congressmen, along with the folks at breitbart.com, FOX News, and the Family Research Council, is Weinstein’s use of the words “spiritual rape” to describe the type of degradation and humiliation that some service members have endured at the hands of their fundamentalist Christian superiors.

Congressman Fleming finds Weinstein’s use of the words “spiritual rape” so completely outrageous and offensive that he’s even taken to the airwaves to make sure the American people know about this completely outrageous and offensive thing that Weinstein said. On May 17, after sending a letter to Secretary of Defense Hagel demanding to know about Weinstein’s well-publicized super-secret meeting at the Pentagon, Congressman Fleming appeared on the radio show of conspiracy theorist Rick Wiles.

On the show show, Congressman Fleming said to Wiles:

“And so it’s very disconcerting to know that a guy with this kind of past, someone who openly hate Christians, who calls Christians the Taliban and al Qaeda and talks about Christians committing spiritual rape and many other derogatory things; it’s very problematic for someone to get high-level meetings with the Adjutant General of the Air Force and other high-level officers.”

Wiles, obviously as appalled by Weinstein’s language as Congressman Fleming, responded:

“You know, Congressman, I’m a pastor and I would never use that kind of language in referring to people who have other religious beliefs serving in the military, I just think that kind of language is over the top so I can’t understand why the Pentagon would be meeting with somebody talking like this.”

Yes, Pastor Wiles would never use that kind of language! Well, except when he says things like “Barack Obama spiritually sodomized the US armed forces” and “Barack Obama has spiritually sodomized the nation.” That’s completely different! Wiles’s “spiritually sodomized” metaphor is apparently just fine with Congressman Fleming since, you know, that was about the gays.

Congressman Fleming has also introduced an amendment to the Defense Authorization Bill. Fleming’s amendment, which calls for the “protection of rights of conscience” (of Christians in the military to trample all over the rights of everyone else), has already been objected to by the Obama administration, but that’s to be expected when the president, in the words of Congressman Flemings’s buddy Rick Wiles, is “not just a smooth talking, jive talking, street thug that talked his way into the White House” but is also “demon-possessed.”

MRFF, of course, strongly objects to Congressman Flemings’s amendment, just like our “demon-possessed” president. Congressman Huelskamp’s amendment, on the other hand, has MRFF’s full support!

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From the website of Congressman Tim Huelskamp (R-KS):

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):

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.

1. 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
2. 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
3. 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
4. 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
5. 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
6. 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
7. 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
8. 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
9. 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
10. 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
11. 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
12. 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
13. 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
14. 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
15. 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
16. 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
17. 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
18. 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
19. 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
20. 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
21. 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
22. 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
23. 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
24. 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
25. 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

On Friday, in a post titled “Has the Air Force Finally Cracked Down on the Gay-Bashing Christian Fighter Pilot?, I posted that all of the many offensive homophobic posts had been removed from the blog of Air Force Major Jonathan C. Dowty, a.k.a. the “Christian Fighter Pilot.”

By Saturday, Maj. Dowty’s entire blog, which contained plenty of other offensive material besides his anti-gay rants, had been “discontinued.” If you go to the blog section of his website, you now get a page titled ”Christian Fighter Pilot Forum Discontinued” with a message that says: “The God and Country blog has been temporarily disabled. Please return on 15 July for an update.”

What Major Dowty’s “update” on July 15 will be is a mystery, so we’ll just have to wait and see.

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Those who have been reading my blog here for a while are probably quite familiar with Air Force Major Jonathan C. Dowty, a.k.a. the “Christian Fighter Pilot.” I’ve written fairly often about this fine officer — about his cyber bullying of enlisted service members who can’t respond to defend themselves because he is an officer, about his disturbing obsession with Mikey Weinstein and the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF), and most recently about his numerous posts on the subject of “homosexuals” serving in the military.

A few days ago, I noticed that the links in some of my posts to posts on Maj. Dowty’s “Christian Fighter Pilot” blog were broken, so I went to his blog to see why these links weren’t working. I noticed immediately that the look of Maj. Dowty’s blog had changed, and at first thought that the broken links might just have something to do with him reformatting his blog, and that the URLs to the posts I had linked to might have changed.

Since a number of the broken links were to Maj. Dowty’s posts about the “homosexuals,” I figured the easiest way to find these posts would be to use the search function on his blog and do a search on the word “homosexuals.” But when I did the search, I got a message saying, “Sorry, but nothing matched your search criteria. Please try again with some different keywords.” Knowing that Maj. Dowty had written a plethora of posts containing the word “homosexuals,” I thought that maybe the search function on his blog wasn’t working, so I tried a few searches on other words that frequently appear in his posts, and all of those other searches worked just fine, returning the expected hits. I then did a search on the terms “don’t ask don’t tell” and “DADT,” which returned a handful of hits, but nowhere even close to the number of posts that I know he has written about the repeal of DADT. That’s because almost all of the posts he’s written about DADT, most of which were homophobic rants, naturally contained the word “homosexuals.”

Doing a little more checking, I found that something else was also gone. On Maj. Dowty’s homepage, there is a “Features” section that has featured the same five posts for years. One of the five is a post from 2010, titled “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell: The Christian Military Perspective.” The link to that post is still listed on the homepage, but clicking on it now leads to a page with the message: “This is somewhat embarrassing, isn’t it? It seems we can’t find what you’re looking for. Perhaps searching can help.” The links to the other four posts still lead to those posts.

Clearly, every post on Maj. Dowty’s blog containing the word “homosexuals” has been deleted.

Did Maj. Dowty have a change of heart and suddenly realize that these posts were not only extremely offensive but completely inappropriate for an active duty U.S. military officer to be posting? Yeah, sure. And a pig just flew past my window, too. Read the rest of this entry »

With a career spanning three decades, Sen. Frank Lautenberg will be remembered by many different people for many different reasons. Upon hearing of his passing on Monday morning, the one thing that immediately came to mind for me was the day in 2005 when he took a stand on the Senate floor against pseudo-historian David Barton.

What Sen. Lautenberg said that day went far beyond some mere criticism of Barton’s revisionism of American history or even the obvious political agenda behind this revisionism. Sen. Lautenberg made it clear that he thoroughly understood the serious danger posed by Barton and the frightening extent to which the real goals of his historical revisionism go.

People who are passingly familiar with David Barton and his Christian nationalist version of American history are generally under the mistaken impression that the reason for his campaign against the separation of church and state is merely to accomplish such things as allowing displays of the ten commandments in courthouses and schools or keeping “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance. Those who know a little more about him understand that he is a threat to public education, having made the leap from writing books used by Christian schools and homeschoolers to being appointed as an “expert” to rewrite the history standards for the Texas Board of Education, thereby injecting his revisionist history into the public schools. An even smaller number of people understand the role that Barton’s Christian nation history lies and rhetoric has played in influencing recent elections. But only a very few fully understand that Barton’s goals are much more far-reaching than any of this, and, if accomplished, would have unimaginable consequences. Sen. Lautenberg was one of these very few, as he showed back in 2005.

What Sen. Lautenberg understood is that the ultimate goal of Barton and the other Christian nationalists is to undermine our government’s separation of powers, particularly the independence of the judiciary. And, as I’ll explain in a minute, that came dangerously close to happening in 2005. But first, let’s get back to what prompted Sen. Lautenberg to speak out against Barton. Read the rest of this entry »

From: (email address withheld … yes, MRFF even withholds the email addresses of assholes)

Subject: your family and friends will burn first. then you

Date: June 2, 2013 11:14:38 PM MDT

To: Information Weinstein <——@militaryreligiousfreedom.org>

Bought your ‘No Snowflake book’. Right after Fox news reported that Ayatollah Hussein Obama appointed (should we say ‘annointed’?) you to persecute loving Christians in our U.S. armed forces. Burned that book right after reading it all. Spirit of Satan on every single page. Saw how you brought your fellow evildoers Joseph Wilson and Lawrence Wilkerson to your pentagon meeting. Our church is near a large Army base. Our church had a faith retreat this weekend. Many military families among us. You were the main topic. You are a very dangerous man to America, Michael Wienstein. You grow more dangerous every day. Especially to Jesus Christ. We have agreed that you are irredeemable. Now your forcing Christian paintings to be taken down on military bases. The pentagon is very afraid of you even. Of course that is Hussein Obama’s plan. Because if they stand up to you you will sick our Muslim president on them. You have this demonic power of darkness in abundance. Saw the pictures of you and your family in the book. Too bad for you. And worse for them. We prayed at the retreat this weekend that they will surely burn for all time. In the unquechable fires of hell. For your willing sins. John 3:36. Mark9:43. We prayed that Wilson and Wilkerson will also burn in hell for your sins, Michael Weinstien. We prayed that you will be the last to burn. So that you may first experience the divine eternal suffering of your wife, children and Wilson and Wilkerson. Our Lord and Savior has promised us this.  That He will make our prayers for you to witness those you love and care for suffer come true. It is already written. 1 John 5:14-15. Your time draws near. You think all is peaceful and secure for yourself and those you harbor. But there is no escape. 1 Thessaloninas 5:3. You will watch them all burn in chains forged by the Son of Man. And then you will burn, son of satan.

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