Posted on 02/03/2010 10:40:29 AM PST by Lorianne
The Air Force Academy, stung several years ago by accusations of Christian bias, has built a new outdoor worship area for pagans and other practitioners of Earth-based religions.
But its opening, heralded as a sign of a more tolerant religious climate at the academy in Colorado Springs, Colo., was marred by the discovery two weeks ago of a large wooden cross placed there.
"We've been making great progress at the Air Force Academy. This is clearly a setback," said Mikey Weinstein, a 1977 graduate of the academy. He is founder of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, and has often tangled with the academy over such issues.
The academy -- which also has worship areas for Catholic, Protestant, Muslim, Buddhist and Jewish faiths -- already had a designated area for Wiccans, pagans and followers of similar traditions, but it was located on the north end of the 19,000-acre campus and was not easy for cadets to visit, Van Winkle said.
The new site, a collection of stones set in a circle unveiled late last year, is closer to where cadets live and train.
The reaction would have been stronger, Weinstein said, if another worship center had been involved. Had a swastika been placed in the Jewish center, "heads would be rolling," he said.
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Is this a joke? The Air force Academy???
With the revelations of extreme political correctness that allowed Major Hassan to murder fourteen people, now this.
How many wiccans are there anyway? It’s lesbian thing.
Is this Bizarro World? Since when is a Cross at a wiccan shrine a “setback”? The construction of a wiccan locale is a setback ... seems to me the Cross is a step forward.
SnakeDoc
I’d recommend torching the facility and booting all the devil worshippers out of the military.
Mikey Weinstein
Barking moonbat....this guy excused the ft hood shooter...
I remember watching the Phil Donahue Show and there was a guy on who looked like a Vulcan extra on Star Trek and his young ashen faced and MUCH younger girlfriend talking about Seti, a Wiccan diety. The largely Liberal audience of the Donahue Show was fine with him until he revealed he was a active service Colonel in the ARMY. They gasped! Then they turned on him. But not because they were anti military. They changed their minds and didn’t want a nut in the ARMY.
//sarcasm
“...was MARRED by the discovery two weeks ago of a large wooden cross placed there...”
Only the LA Times (or possibly NY Times) could make a statement like that.
Okay... so we have an Army Major that was a practicing Muslim which is a religion that has been proven to be intolerant, who shoots up and Army Fort... and The AF Academy is providing a place for people to be practicing Muslims.
This guy is an utter and complete moron.
I’m all in favor of promoting true religious freedom at the service academies, but I’m thinking it’s high time for “Mikey” Weinstein, 1977 Air Force Academy graduate, to start using a more grown-up name. In fact, it was high time before even entered the academy back in 1973.
Another Jewish aggitator from the school of Engels, Marx, Alinsky and Immanuel. It's my guess that Mickey's passionate about upsetting anything orthodox or traditional.
Can anyone tell me why Jews are always doing these kinds of community diservice. he mentions the swastika just like Obama, Jesse & Al toss out the Race Card!
I think it's time to call this what it really is 'Playing the Jew Card'
It takes Mickey only a paragraph to haul it out. I'm growing so tired of this happening everywhere I go!
The reaction would have been stronger, Weinstein said, if another worship center had been involved. Had a swastika been placed in the Jewish center, "heads would be rolling," he said.
This wiccan pagan worship area is the result of the SAME dude who complained about Trijicon’s (world’s best scopes) use of “Bible Code” on it’s scopes on military rifles.
Yet another meddling former JAG officer (can you say Lindsey Graham?) on a civil rights effort for... no one!
He was in the REAGAN White House for God’s sake!!
One Mikey Weinstein, bio from this moronic site:
Mikey is a 1977 Honor Graduate of the United States Air Force Academy. Mikey has been married for over 32 years to his wife, Bonnie. He is the proud parent of two sons and one daughter. His oldest son and daughter-in-law are 2004 Graduates, and Mikey’s youngest son graduated in the Class of 2007 from the Air Force Academy and is the sixth member of Mikey’s family to attend the Academy. His father is a distinguished graduate of the United States Naval Academy. Mikey spent 10 years in the Air force as a “JAG” or military attorney serving as both a Federal prosecutor and criminal defense attorney.
A registered Republican, he also spent over three years in the West Wing of the Reagan Administration as legal counsel in the White House. In his final position there, Mikey was named the Committee Management Officer of the much-publicized Iran-Contra Investigation in his capacity as Assistant General Counsel of The White House Office of Administration, Executive Office of the President of the United States. Mikey has held numerous positions in corporate America as a senior executive businessman and attorney.
After stints at prominent law firms in both New York City and Washington D.C., he served as the first General Counsel to Texas billionaire and two-time Presidential candidate H. Ross Perot and Perot Systems Corporation and left Mr. Perot’s employ in 2006 to focus his fulltime attention on the nonprofit charitable foundation he founded to directly battle the evangelical, fundamentalist religious right; The Military Religious Freedom Foundation.
WHY would you want to fight the “religious right”... to help out the religious Left? Or the Muslims PC?
Buddhists, Hindus and a number of others.
Mickey Weinstein has been rocking the boat over religious intolerance for over 2 years now. This predates the Major Hassan BS. This is just the latest turn of the screw at the USAFA.
Need any more proof that liberalism is a mental disorder?
What they can’t look on a cross?
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