COLORADO SPRINGS GAZETTE – Academy should allow many ideas to flourish

Published On: April 21, 2014|Categories: News|0 Comments|

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It was reported recently in The Gazette that once again in the face of pressure to do something, Rep. Doug Lamborn wrote another letter. This time it was to the Secretary of the Air Force “urging revision of Air Force regulations to permit more expression of service members’ beliefs in the workplace,” according to The Gazette.

What caused this latest letter writing episode was the report last month by a variety of websites that after complaints by Mikey Weinstein, the director of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, Air Force Academy officials “removed” a Bible verse from a white board mounted outside a cadet’s room.

The white boards are used by cadets to leave notes and messages and in the squadron in question are fixed on the wall immediately outside each cadet’s room. At issue was the posting on one such board of a verse from the Bible, to wit, Galatians 2:20.

To be sure, there are a couple of important things that neither Weinstein, Lamborn, nor the Air Force Academy seem to fully understand – first is the Constitution of the United States, second are Air Force regulations, third is the proper place and role of the university in our culture, and fourth is the kind of men and women we want to graduate from all of our military academies.

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