Forced Agnosticism at the Air Force Academy New rules issued by the Pentagon in January allegedly protect all service members’ religious expression, but as one U.S. Air Force Academy cadet discovered this week, those protections do not extend to Christian leaders who want to express their faith in public. The dustup over a cadet who wrote a Scripture verse on the whiteboard on his dorm room door and later removed it—some say by force, others by choice—has become the U.S. military’s latest religious liberty scandal. As the smoke clears and members of the top brass meet with representatives from both Christian and anti-religious groups, both sides stand ready to file suit to protect what they say are constitutionally protected freedoms. Cadets at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo., have a whiteboard on their dorm room doors. They supposedly were free to write whatever they wanted on them until one cadet in a minor leadership role scrawled a verse from the Bible on his: “I have been crucified with Christ therefore I no longer live, but Christ lives in me.” (Galatians 2:20) Someone complained, and the verse disappeared. Mikey Weinstein, head of the anti-evangelical Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF), which seeks to strictly limit religious expression in the military, quickly took credit for it. foxnews/opinion/2014/03/11/air-force-academy-removes-bible-verse-from-cadet-whiteboard/
Posted on: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 17:36:27 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015