{"id":226,"date":"2005-05-14T14:55:03","date_gmt":"2005-05-14T19:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=226"},"modified":"2007-11-08T17:41:22","modified_gmt":"2007-11-08T22:41:22","slug":"religious-intolerance-at-the-air-force-academy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=226","title":{"rendered":"Religious intolerance at the Air Force Academy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s <em>New York Times<\/em> carries an unsigned editorial calling on the Air Force Academy to stop Christian proselytizing that appears to be sanctioned by high Academy officials. Supposedly efforts to stop the proselytizing have been going on for more than a year, but with little success. The editorial states:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But it turns out that the academy&#8217;s remedial program of religious toleration is running into resistance. The Air Force&#8217;s chief chaplain expressed displeasure at the object lessons dramatized in a multidenominational educational videotape. &#8216;Why is it that the Christians never win?&#8217; the chief, Maj. General Charles Baldwin, demanded to know after watching the give-and-take of instructional encounters. General Baldwin had segments cut out on such non-Christian religions as Buddhism, Judaism, and Native American spirituality.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hmm&#8230; I wonder what General Baldwin thinks about Unitarian Universalism? Maybe we should all think about writing to our congressperson or senator to complain about religious intolerance at the Air Force Academy.<\/p>\n<p>(&#8230;and you have to love that quote, &#8220;Why is it that the Christians never win?&#8221;&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s New York Times carries an unsigned editorial calling on the Air Force Academy to stop Christian proselytizing that appears to be sanctioned by high Academy officials. Supposedly efforts to stop the proselytizing have been going on for more than a year, but with little success. The editorial states: But it turns out that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberal-religion","category-pop-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}