KRDO – New billboard put up in ongoing debate over religion at the Air Force Academy (with video report)

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• COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Religion, the Air Force Academy, and the constitution: the “Military Religious Freedom Foundation” is launching a media blitz against the Academy.This comes after an AFA leader says he will discuss his religious beliefs with co-workers. A billboard new says a lot and what it’s saying is getting quite the reaction. When you drive along Garden of Gods approaching Centennial Boulevard, you may notice a new billboard that shouts red, white and blue, but the writing is what’s grabbing attention.”I think my first response was separation of church and state,” said Nancy Blackwell.The ad quotes Air Force Academy trainer Allen Willoughby, who emailed the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, saying, “I am on staff at USAFA and will talk about Jesus Christ my lord and Savior to everyone that I work with.””As a Christian, I would be offended if someone came up to me and said that,” said one passerby.

• 435 of their clients are staff and students at the academy. MRFF says many have complained about the email, but the Air Force Academy did not take any action.”It was a major problem for our clients at the academy, to our legal staff, to our foundation and it’s an absolute complete atrocious, wrong,” said Weinstein.Wrong enough, they believe, to produce a TV Ad saying, “The United States Air Force Academy has become a fundamentalist Christian Military Ministry.”

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