Advocacy Group Questions Air Force Suit

[Judi Lynn]

Advocacy Group Questions Air Force Suit

By DAN ELLIOTT
The Associated Press
Tuesday, November 8, 2005; 11:12 PM

DENVER -- A group that advocates for religious expression wants to intervene in a lawsuit that claims senior officers and cadets at the Air Force Academy illegally imposed Christianity on others at the school.

The Alliance Defense Fund said Tuesday the case could infringe on religious freedom in the military.

The group said it was acting on behalf of a pilot and a chaplain and hoped to persuade a judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Mikey Weinstein, a former Air Force officer and Air Force Academy graduate.

Weinstein's suit seeks to prohibit Air Force members from evangelizing, proselytizing or trying "to involuntarily convert, pressure, exhort or persuade a fellow member of the USAF to accept their own religious beliefs while on duty."
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/08/AR2005110802187.html

[Hekate]

1. Oh those poor persecuted fundies: they can't have it all their own way

I tell you, the more the ultra-fundies take over and act like this*, the more other socially conservative religious groups are going to regret ever making common cause with them on anything at all. And this realization can't come soon enough.

(*"like this" -- i.e. as if anyone who dares say boo is actively persecuting Christianity and Christians, rather than requesting or requiring rights accorded to every American by the US Constitution)

Hekate