See No Evil
Jun 23rd, 2005 at 7:53 am by Susie
How convenient:
A Pentagon inquiry’s finding of no overt religious discrimination at the Air Force Academy strains credibility, considering the academy superintendent has already acknowledged it will take years to undo the damage from evangelical zealots on campus. Indeed, amid its thicket of bureaucratese, the report by an Air Force investigative panel goes on for page after page describing cases of obvious and overt religious bias. But it tosses all of these off as “perceived bias,” as if the blame lies with the victims and not the offenders, and throws up a fog of implausible excuses, like “a lack of awareness” of what is impermissible behavior by military officers.
This muddle stands in stark contrast to an earlier investigation by Yale Divinity School that found widespread problems with intolerance at the academy. That study described faculty members, chaplains and even the football coach as pressuring cadets toward Christian beliefs and hazing them about divergent views on religion. The Pentagon study insisted that this did not amount to a widespread problem for non-Christian cadets who complained of ranking officers encouraging an evangelical fervor.
can’t censor your base after all. unless they’re clever enough to spin it into liberals persecuting christians.
That report sounds like a case of percieved fairness, but only if you really want to believe it anyway
The AU & ACLU are all over this but have yet to substantiate the charges of religious bias. If it is happening why have we not seen a lawsuit? Check out my blog for the post I have done on it. The bias is in the way the media treats people of faith at work.