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Air Force Football Coach Drops Pre-Game Prayer
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| September 2, 2005
Posted on 09/02/2005 4:55:23 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
Air Force coach Fisher DeBerry will reportedly forgo his customary team prayer before Saturday's game against Washington.
The Gazette of Colorado Springs reported that the team will observe a moment of silence in the locker room instead.
It's one of the first visible changes brought on by a new policy on public displays of religion.
The Air Force issued guidelines Monday that discourage public prayer at official functions and urge commanders to be sensitive about personal expressions of religious faith.
DeBerry has led pregame prayers in his previous 21 years as Air Force's coach.
Last year, academy officials told DeBerry to remove a banner from the locker room that said in part, "I am a Christian first and last ... I am a member of Team Jesus Christ."
TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: airforce; coach; deberry; football; momentofsilence; ncaa; prayer; purge; usafa; voluntaryprayer
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
And all the secularists said, "Mmmuuusssstttt cruuuush Chrsitianity".
To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
I think I've posted on here several times on the P.C. anti-America anti-Constitution USAF boys. It explains AF colonels that deface personal property in parking lots because they insult his communist ideals.
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posted on
09/02/2005 4:58:27 PM PDT
by
hombre_sincero
(www.sigmaitsys.com)
To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
Dear God in heaven, smite this loser. Amen.
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posted on
09/02/2005 4:58:37 PM PDT
by
pipecorp
(Let's have a CRUSADE! , the muslims have already started. 1600 replies and not a single post!)
To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
Stomach turning!
My precious country continues to disappoint me.
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posted on
09/02/2005 4:59:32 PM PDT
by
upchuck
("If our nation be destroyed, it would be from the judiciary." ~ Thomas Jefferson)
To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
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posted on
09/02/2005 5:00:09 PM PDT
by
nonliberal
(Graduate: Curtis E. LeMay School of International Relations)
To: pipecorp
is it too late to resign the appointment and apply to one of the other academies?
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posted on
09/02/2005 5:00:31 PM PDT
by
GeorgiaDawg32
(If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my children may live in peace..Thomas Paine)
To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
I suggest that individual players who wish to pray get together and pray...prominently.
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posted on
09/02/2005 5:00:35 PM PDT
by
atomicpossum
(Replies should be as pedantic as possible. I love that so much.)
To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
Sad to say it's not just the AF academy...you should have heard the MEO briefing I had the other day...it's quite sad.
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posted on
09/02/2005 5:02:03 PM PDT
by
Blue Scourge
(Team Charleston...second to none...)
To: Blue Scourge
May G-d smite the Air Force and grant victory to my beloved Washington Huskies!
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posted on
09/02/2005 5:12:43 PM PDT
by
TheConservator
(Confutatis maledictis, . . .)
To: All
I still say "Go Team Jesus Christ"
To: pipecorp; GeorgiaDawg32
Please don't blame DeBerry for this. I live right next to the Academy, and he has always been a faithful voice in the community. Given the height/weight limitations for most students (we train pilots here, cockpits are only so big), what he accomplishes with his coaching and leadership year-in and year-out is nothing short of astonishing.
GeorgiaDawg, you'd be hard-pressed to find a better atmosphere for right-thinking people than Colorado Springs. Congratulations on your appointment, and we look forward to welcoming you!
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posted on
09/02/2005 5:15:13 PM PDT
by
niteowl
To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
To whom will they appeal in battle seeing they haven't sought guidance in life's more ordinary moments and their leadership forbids their appeal to the God of America?
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posted on
09/02/2005 5:18:37 PM PDT
by
Spirited
To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
The coach is a good man. My suspicion is that this ban will reaffirm his commitment to his faith, his country and his team. Guys like this don't just roll over.
To: dollar_dog
"I still say "Go Team Jesus Christ""
Yeah, and any Jews can just like it or leave it!!
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posted on
09/02/2005 5:25:26 PM PDT
by
Blzbba
(For a man who does not know to which port he is sailing, no wind is favorable - Seneca)
To: GeorgiaDawg32
do the right thing.. GO FLY..... GOOD pilots are few and far between.
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posted on
09/02/2005 5:25:33 PM PDT
by
pipecorp
(Let's have a CRUSADE! , the muslims have already started. 1600 replies and not a single post!)
To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
You can't call Warrant Officers "chief" anymore and don't refer to soldiers as "warriors." It makes the Lefty "Generals" in the Pentagon wet their pants. They've become very PC.
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posted on
09/02/2005 5:52:44 PM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(We did not lose in Vietnam. We left.)
To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
No longer WW II "on a wing and a prayer".
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posted on
09/02/2005 5:59:30 PM PDT
by
ex-snook
(Protectionism is Patriotism in both war and trade.)
To: ex-snook
Comin’ in on a wing and a prayer
What a show, what a fight
Boys, we really hit our target for tonight
How we sing as we limp through the air
Look below, there’s our field over there
Though there’s one motor gone
We can still carry on
Comin’ in on a wing and a prayer.
------------ Now that was when the Air Force was part of the Army. Now they won't even have a prayer. Brought to you by some chickenhawks.
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posted on
09/02/2005 6:04:49 PM PDT
by
ex-snook
(Protectionism is Patriotism in both war and trade.)
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