Cross found at Air Force Academy's Wicca center

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.

Examine this scenario, it sounds like a joke line if it was not so pathetically politically correct.

A Jew with a history of blowing the whistle on religious intolerance becomes 'outraged' once again that a Christian Cross is 'found' inside a Wiccan Circle of Life constructed as a recognition of the religious rights of a few Wiccans. The AFA went way beyond the norm to accomidate the alleged feelings of a few Wiccan cadets.

Why are we surprised to discover that the sacred symbol of the very faith that has repeatedly turned the other cheek and bent over backwards to satisfy and calm the bogus fears of a few kooks is located inside the circle?

When this very same self loathing former Jew, now a Wiccan 'discovers' the very same symbol of Jesus' suffering torture and death for the redemption of all mankind, he's outraged? What are the odds?

He says he's now a Wiccan, but his compliant is pointed toward a violation of his Jewishness, not at the defilment of the Wiccan 'Circle of Life'. We can reach this conclusion based upon the example Mickey used to make his allegations. You know, so we can feel his pain. 'What if a swastika, Blah, blah, blah! Playing the Christians are Nazi's Card!

Mickey planted that cross inside the Circle of Life just as certainly as he's a confused bigot and a hater of Jesus Christ! He probably hates Jews too, why else would he employ the Nazi symbolism? Upsetting Jews in the process with his bogus claims.

Mickey can't have it both ways folks, either he's an outragged Jew or a pissed off Gaia worshipper. I don't think he believes in anything, but self promotion and gaining the attention of the MSM! May God have mercy upon him.

I meant my comment as sarcasm. In order for the analogy to hold true Christians, who are symbolised by the cross, would have had to round up neo-pagans, burn them in ovens, start a world war and kill countless others. To my knowledge no one has ever rounded up neo-pagans in concentration camps and killed them...therfore the analogy is plainly wrong.

As an aside the swastika was never, to my knowledge, the primary symbol for any religion although it can be found as a symbol in many cultures.

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