{"id":11650,"date":"2006-07-22T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-22T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2006\/07\/22\/former-air-force-officer-zeroes-in-on-proselytizing-in-the-military\/"},"modified":"2006-07-22T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-07-22T12:00:00","slug":"former-air-force-officer-zeroes-in-on-proselytizing-in-the-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2006\/07\/22\/former-air-force-officer-zeroes-in-on-proselytizing-in-the-military\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Air Force Officer Zeroes In On Proselytizing In The Military"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.kintera.org\/TR.asp?ID=M718294069210463531577165&#038;af=y\">www.kintera.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">WASHINGTON, D.C., July 16, 2006: Weinstein, 51, was once a White House lawyer who defended the Reagan administration during the Iran-contra investigation. Three generations of his family &#8212; his father, himself, both of his sons and a daughter-in-law &#8212; have gone to U.S. military academies. Now he&#8217;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&#8230;. Ambassadors for Christ in uniform. To Weinstein, who is both a Jew and a member of a military family, it is an abomination. It &#8220;evokes the Crusades.&#8221; He says he can&#8217;t believe that generals talk like this when the United States is fighting a global war on terror and trying to win hearts and minds in Muslim countries. For the rest of this article in the Washington Post, click URL above.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>www.kintera.org WASHINGTON, D.C., July 16, 2006: Weinstein, 51, was once a White House lawyer who defended the Reagan administration during,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}