I'm not talking about the investigations that were conducted AFTER media attention forced the Academy leadership to examine itself.
I'm talking about the years of denials, cover-ups, and general apathy that took place under at least two different commandants over more than a decade.
I cannot agree with your assesment that the "PC Police" of the media are behind these attacks upon the institution of the United States Air Force Academy. If this were the case, the stories would be equally if not more aimed at the Naval Academy or the Army's West Point. They weren't. They were aimed squarely at the United State Air Force.
You are right. Most of the stories were aimed at the AF Academy and were fueled, day after day, by an incessant barrage of Academy bashing articles in the ultra liberal Denver Post. Their anti-military agenda and the PC feminist stance of their staff writers who wrote the articles is beyond question. The fact that the USNA and the USMA escaped relatively unscathed is thus mainly attributable to geography.
I'm talking about the years of denials, cover-ups, and general apathy that took place under at least two different commandants over more than a decade.
I disagree. Real rapes that occured at the Academy in the years prior to the Fowler investigation were reported, investigated and prosecuted under the UCMJ. They were not ignored, denied, or coverd-up. During that period of time, some alledged rapes were consensual affairs or had mitigating circumstances that revealed the female to have been partially responsible for the situation. Of course, in today's PC climate that surrounded the Denver Post stories, no female can ever be even partially responsible for her own actions in cases like these. Any accusations of rape are automatically true; any attempt to defend the man is a cover-up. Most of the Denver Post staff writers were female and, with copious tears and indignation, they portrayed the objective treatment of previous "rape" cases as examples of either outright male chauvinism or general apathy---sort of like you have done. They were especially indignant if a female had been punished for lying, drunkeness, lewdness, etc. as her part in the affair. No, only the male was guilty. This makes a travesty of justice and trivializes real rape. It does a grave disservice to the female victims of real rape cases.
In saying these things, I do not for a moment, excuse male rapists. I have the utmost sympathy for real rape victims. In fact, I believe capital punishment is entirely appropriate for the crime of rape. However, the accusations of cover-up, denial, and apathy that surrounded the Academy's treatment of "rape" victims prior to the Fowler investigation, are PC rubbish.
What does all this have to do with the thread of this discussion: Religion Probe Set for Air Force Academy? Just this: conservative Christianity and nothing else is the focus of this, so called, probe. This attack, in the guise of a probe or investigation, is already taking on the same PC aura that dominated the "rape" investigations spearheaded by the Denver Post. The military is one of the last bastions of conservative and patriotic Americanism. One of its foundations is conservative Christianity and so naturally, it will come under attack by those opposed to it.