Air Force Academy ignoring Constitution

[DaveColorado]

http://www.abqtrib.com/albq/op_editorials/article/0,2565,ALBQ_19867_4158729,00.html

Editorial: Air Force Academy ignoring Constitution

October 15, 2005

Albuquerque's Mikey Weinstein is twice right.

Last week he filed a federal lawsuit against his alma mater, the Air Force Academy, charging that its senior officers and cadets are illegally imposing religion, specifically Evangelical Christianity, on others at the school.

Then he complained: "It's a shocking disgrace that I had to file this thing."

Right on both counts.

The academy needs to do an about-face and get religious advocacy out of its command and academic structure, including its chaplains and cadets, as a matter of school policy.

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[MADem]

1. Related article

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/10/AR2005101001582.html

I know the guy who is advising the Academy. He is an orthodox Jew, a straight shooter, a very ethical guy. It wouldn't surprise me if he urged the kid to file, notwithstanding his upbeat comments in the cited article.

Evangelical chaplains in the military are annoying, dangerous, pains in the ass. The chaplain's stated role is to facilitate the practice of religion--holding services is a SIDELINE--but some of them look at the military as their little field of dreams.