Is your belief in ‘my’ type of God a prerequisite for serving in the Armed Forces of the US of A? If the claims of Capt. MeLinda Morton, a chaplain at the Air Force Academy, are true, we are certainly moving in that direction.
Morton claims she was fired as chaplain and ordered to Japan because she accused some of the leaders of the Academy of using their positions to promote evangelical Christianity. There seems to be some basis for her contention. A study by people from Yale Divinity School found that some chaplains, in the words of the Times, “were insensitive to the religious diversity of the cadets”. Mike Weinstein, an alumnus of the Academy, a member of the Reagan administration and father of a cadet, has spoken with 117 people at the Academy who have complained about religious intimidation and proselytizing. A rabbi from a task force investigating the religious climate at the Academy called Weinstein and asked him to shut up already.
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