{"id":1402,"date":"2005-04-22T01:47:39","date_gmt":"2005-04-22T06:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=1402"},"modified":"2005-04-25T21:11:45","modified_gmt":"2005-04-26T02:11:45","slug":"nonchristians_h","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/22\/nonchristians_h\/","title":{"rendered":"Non-Christians harassed at Air Force Academy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since the military  successfully rid itself of open homosexuals, where\ndo the righteous direct their indignant bigotry? Thankfully, the Air Force Academy\nhas a small number of non-Christians just asking for it:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Air Force Academy, still recovering from rape and sexual harassment scandals,\nis facing charges that some Christian cadets have bullied and berated Jews and\nstudents of other religious backgrounds. School officials said Tuesday they had\nreceived 55 complaints over the last few months and were requiring students &mdash; and\neventually all employees &mdash; to attend a course on religious tolerance&#8230;The\nacademy is about 60% Protestant and 30% Catholic. Included in the number of Christian\ncadets are 120 Mormons. There are 44 Jews and a handful of Hindus and Buddhists\nat the academy, officials said. [<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/nation\/la-na-academy20apr20,1,4179647.story\">Los\nAngeles Times<\/a><\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>As soon as they rid themselves of the pagans and other undesirables, we can\nfinally have ourselves a good-old-fashioned crusade. That&rsquo;s what\nI&rsquo;m talkin&rsquo; about, says Tom Minnery, vice president of public policy\nat Focus on the Family. He says the bullies are the true victims:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>\n<p>&ldquo;If 90% of cadets identify themselves as Christian, it is common sense\nthat Christianity will be in evidence on the campus,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;Christianity\nis deeply felt and very important to people &hellip; and to suggest that it should\nbe bottled up is nonsense. I think a witch hunt is underway to root out Christian\nbeliefs. To root out what is pervasive in 90% of the group is ridiculous.&rdquo; [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/nation\/la-na-academy20apr20,1,4179647.story\"><em>Los\nAngeles Times<\/em><\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><em>Los Angeles Times<\/em>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/nation\/la-na-academy20apr20,1,4179647.story\">Non-Christian\nAir Force cadets cite harassment<\/a> (free registration required) <\/p>\n\n<!--more-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the military successfully rid itself of open homosexuals, where do the righteous direct their indignant bigotry? Thankfully, the Air Force Academy has a small number of non-Christians just asking for it: The Air Force Academy, still recovering from rape &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/22\/nonchristians_h\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}