Tuesday, October 06, 2009
Gordon Klingenschmitt
A self-described unlikely civil rights activist, Mikey Weinstein is suing a Texas-based evangelical church with ties to the Department of Defense for praying for his demise. Weinstein, a Jewish Republican and former military lawyer who served under President Ronald Reagan, has accused Gordon Klingenschmitt, a former U.S. Navy chaplain who was court-martialed for wearing his Navy uniform to a protest, and Jim Ammerman, founder of the Chaplaincy of Full Gospel Churches, of asking Jesus “to plunder my fields ... seize my assets, kill me and my family then wipe away our descendants for 10 generations.”
Weinstein says he and his family have been the targets of death threats for several years, ever since he began speaking out against Christian proselytizing at the Air Force Academy, which he attended. “I morphed from being a lawyer and a businessman to this thing called a civil rights activist,” he says.
Both Klingenschmitt and Ammerman have denied Weinstein’s allegations, although Klingenschmitt has acknowledged that he does “pray the Psalm that his days are few.”
-Noel Brinkerhoff
Lawyer Sues to End Dallas Group's 'Threat' Prayers (by Diane Jennings, Dallas Morning News)
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