While most Air Force bases widely distributed a warning from Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz about religious neutrality, the Air Force Academy kept the edict within a small circle of officers. This has triggered more allegations that the academy favors evangelical Christianity, with AFA airmen asking the Military Religious Freedom Foundation why they haven’t seen the memo.
In a statement, the academy said Lt. Gen. Michael Gould “shared its contents with his subordinate USAFA commanders and senior leadership team members during a weekly staff meeting.” Gould also stressed to them that religious neutrality should permeate every part of the academy, the statement said.
But what about everybody else? “The only place MRFF has had any complaints of [military members] not seeing this is the academy,” says MRFF founder and academy grad Mikey Weinstein…
