Posted on 05/12/2005 12:41:32 PM PDT by wagglebee
Right on! The Bible speaks clearly to this issue.
AFA starts sensitivity training (03/30/05)
Respect for religious diversity is emphasized
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"The issue is not about religion," said Chaplain Capt. Melinda Morton, who led the training. "It's about respecting everyone's right to believe as they choose."
That's essential in an environment dominated by power hierarchies, she said, because cadets can perceive they'd score points by adopting an instructor's or military leader's religious beliefs.
Laws and policies mandate equal opportunity regardless of religious affiliation - a tenet imperative to carrying out the mission, she said.
He said something like "Think not that I have come to bring peace on earth, I bring not peace but a sword".
Elmendorf is nice. She should go to Thule, Greenland.
Excuse me?
ELCA press release (search for Melinda Morton)
If you want to read something really offensive to anyone who knows, loves and serves Christ Jesus, read this link.
Isn't there some Air Force installation in Antarctica, now that I think about it?
LOL!
Lutheran-in-name-only...
Morton was teaching an RSVP — Respecting the Spiritual Values of all People — class, a 50-minute exercise in trying to stop what critics called a culture of intolerance on campus. Over the last four years, there have been 55 complaints of insensitivity, many dealing with alleged harassment of religious minorities by evangelical Christians.
Cadets and employees are being told they can't proselytize on campus, use government e-mail to send religious messages, put up posters with religious themes or use positions of authority to endorse a particular faith. They must also attend one RSVP class.
About 90% of cadets here are Christian and many of them, as well as teachers and high-ranking officers, are evangelical.
Academy Commandant Brig. Gen. Johnny Weida is a self-described born-again Christian. Last year, football coach Fisher DeBerry hung a banner in the athletic complex that said, "I am a Christian first and last … I am a member of Team Jesus Christ." He later removed it and underwent sensitivity counseling.
http:///www.tinyurl.com/b5pnw
Lets create a new one at the south pole for her. An igloo for one.
Agreed.
Should I don my flame suit? :-)
Freep her email:
I would like to see the poll questions and a link to his study. It appears the number ONE area where the 'believers' are flagging, is in the believing of the Bible as the Word of God.
Believers who don't...
'believe,' that is.
Good grief. No wonder liberal Protestant churches are losing members.
Do MS even have women pastors?
Group may sue U.S. Air Force Academy
By Robert Weller, Associated Press Writer | April 29, 2005
DENVER -- A national group that monitors the separation of church and state says it may sue the Air Force Academy, claiming the school allows evangelical Christians to harass cadets who do not share their faith.
"This is the most significant, systemwide example of religious discrimination I have seen in a military setting. Every cadet should be treated as a first-class citizen but instead those who are not evangelical Christians have a lower status," said Rev. Barry Lynn, executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State.
Lynn's group said it conducted a two-month investigation that included contacting about 15 cadets and staff, and has sent a report to Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld.
The investigation found that former and current cadets said that their fellow students, faculty, staff and members of the chaplains' office frequently pressured them to attend chapel and receive religious instruction. In one case, a professor required a prayer before a test, and faculty members have promoted their religion in class, the group said.
An academy spokesman declined comment. Air Force spokeswoman Lt. Col. Amy Rogerson said Friday the report had not yet been received and she could not comment on its contents.
"The Air Force's position is that one's religious beliefs, or the absence of beliefs in an established religion, should never be grounds for unlawful discrimination," Rogerson said. "The Air Force senior leadership has total confidence in the academy."
The academy has launched mandatory religious tolerance classes after complaints from Jews and other cadets that they are the target of religious harassment and insults by Christians. Some have also questioned the activities of senior leadership at the prestigious school near Colorado Springs.
Lynn said his group would work with the Air Force and Congress, but warned a religious discrimination lawsuit is possible if there is no progress in 30 days.
"It's a man, baby."
We can only hope.
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