Mikey, I am an upperclass cadet at the USAF Academy. And yes I am a Christian but not an “Air Force Academy approved” one. Late yesterday, the Academy’s head chaplain, a full colonel, sent out an e-mail advertising a clearly evangelical Christian family/marriage seminar to ALL personnel at the Academy. In it, the most senior ranking Academy chaplain tells us all that his e-mail complies with General Schwartz’s 1 Sept. 2011 memo on the importance of religious neutrality. How nice of him to do that. Except, given that, except for us cadets (thanks to MRFF putting up that billboard of the Chief of Staff’s directive in Col. Springs) , noone else in either the Academy faculty, the 10th Air base Wing and other Academy orgs. has even seen General Schwartz’s memo. It is just totally hypocritical bullshit that the CHRISTIAN family/marriage event gets OFFICIALLY sent to EVERYBODY when the Chief of Staff’s memo has obviously been kept under wraps by Lt. General Gould and his staff. Why? What is the message here? Simple. Lt. Gen. Gould and his Academy want you to be a zealous Christian in the USAF more than it wants you to know about the Chief of Staff’s memo on the limits and perils of being a zealous Christian in the USAF. Again, bullshit. Thank you and MRFF for being the only place we can go to protest. If we could “Occupy Lt. Gen. Gould’s office” a la Wall Street we would. But we can’t. Therefore, we come to you.
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