Tuesday, October 17, 2006
Lightning Strikes
The Free Thinkers of Colorado Springs has announced it will become one of a number of extracurricular faith-based programs at the nation's Air Force Academy.
Last year, Americans United for Separation of Church and State charged the academy with religious intolerance. Academy graduate Mikey Weinstein is suing the Air Force for religious discrimination. He accuses it of using the religion program to indoctrinate cadets by giving evangelical Christians special status at the school.
Allowing free thinkers onto the Air Force Academy campus has the deep thinkers at World Net Daily worried. They want to know, "whether the Freethinkers would be meeting in the academy's famous chapel."
Could the chapel, described as a collection of aluminum, glass and steel spires soaring 150 feet in the air, be the victim of a wrathful god if a humanist should step to the pulpit?
Last year, Americans United for Separation of Church and State charged the academy with religious intolerance. Academy graduate Mikey Weinstein is suing the Air Force for religious discrimination. He accuses it of using the religion program to indoctrinate cadets by giving evangelical Christians special status at the school.
Allowing free thinkers onto the Air Force Academy campus has the deep thinkers at World Net Daily worried. They want to know, "whether the Freethinkers would be meeting in the academy's famous chapel."
Could the chapel, described as a collection of aluminum, glass and steel spires soaring 150 feet in the air, be the victim of a wrathful god if a humanist should step to the pulpit?
