In response to the Air Force’s assault on the religious freedom of Christian cadets, a group of Christian organizations have banded together to protect the cadets.
The Restore Military Religious Freedom Coalition announced they will defend any cadet brought up on charges for exercising their religious rights.
The formation of the group comes after the Air Force bowed to the demands of the virulent anti-Christian activist group Military Religious Freedom Foundation and their extremist leader, Mikey Weinstein. The group demanded the whiteboard of a cadet be scrubbed of a Bible verse he had displayed outside his dorm room.
Friends of the cadet who had the verse (Galatians 2:20) removed from his whiteboard say it had been posted for months and the cadet saw the verse as inspiration.
The anti-Chrsitian group was not satisfied with the removal of the verse and is demanding that disciplinary action be taken against the student for exercising his religious freedom.
The Air Force is claiming the cadet remove the verse on his own, however other cadets who spoke to Fox News said that was a pure lie. The Air Force also said after removing the verse that cadets may only place things that are respectful on their whiteboards, thereby saying the Bible is not respectful.
An aggressive anti-Christian group that targets Christians in the military has taken aim at a cadet at the Air Force Academy who posted a Bible verse on the personal whiteboard outside his dorm room.
The cadet had posted Galatians 2:20: “I have been crucified with Christ therefore I no longer live but Christ lives in me.”
The virulent anti-Christian Military Religious Freedom Foundation claimed they had received complaints from cadets and faculty & staff who said they were offended the Bible verse was posted on the cadet’s whiteboard.
The MRFF’s director claimed the simple existence of the verse created a hostile environment at the Academy. He called in a complaint and in just over two hours the cadet’s whiteboard had been scrubbed of the verse.
MRFF Director Mikey Weinstein told Fox News they will use the erasing of the Bible verse as a “teachable moment” according to Lt. Col. Denise Cooper. Weinstein said the removal is not good enough, however. He wants the cadet to face discipline along with those in the chain of command over him for violation of the Constitution.
An Academy spokesman said that the verse did not violate Air Force regulations.
An attorney with the Liberty Institute said if the verse didn’t violate Air Force regulations, it makes no sense why the Air Force would violate the cadet’s religious freedoms to cater to anti-Christian extremist Mikey Weinstein and his organization.
The vehemently anti-Christian Military Religious Freedom Foundation has launched yet another assault to remove anything connected to Christianity from being on military bases.
The commander of the Guantanamo Bay naval base removed Nativity scenes from two dining halls after the anti-Christianist group claimed their existence promoted Christianity.
A spokesman for the base commander said the displays had been set up by contractors who run the dining halls and that they had absolutely no intention to endorse any religion.
The spokesman said base officials did not receive a single complaint about the displays. The MRFF made their usual claim that soldiers they could not name complained to them about the display. The MRFF routinely claims that anonymous soldiers are behind their campaign to eradicate Christian symbols from military installations.
The anti-Christian group Military Religious Freedom Foundation has forced the Air Force to remove a nativity scene from Shaw Air Force Base in South Carolina.
The plastic nativity scene included traditional Christmas elements like Mary, Joseph, assorted animals and Baby Jesus. According to the MRFF, the site emotionally troubled some Airmen from the base.
The Air Force removed the display within hours of the anti-Christian group contacting the Pentagon.
Shaw Air Force Base’s public affairs office did not return calls to Fox News’ Todd Starnes for comment about why they removed the display. However, Fox News’ commentator Sarah Palin said the action was not surprising.
“We see stories like this every day and yet leftwing pundits still claim that the so-called ‘War on Christmas’ is a figment of the imagination,” Palin told Starnes. “The War on Christmas is just the top of the spear in a larger battle to marginalize expressions of faith and make true religious freedom a thing of the past.”
The U.S. Air Force Academy admitted to Fox News that they had removed the phrase “so help me God” from three oaths in the official cadet handbook.
Fox News’ Todd Starnes reported that two dozen members of Congress sent a letter to the Academy Superintendent demanding to explain why the phrase was removed from the 2012 edition of the handbook. The phrase was taken out of the Cadet’s Oath of Allegiance, The Oath of Office for Officers and the Oath of Enlistment.
The news comes less than a month after the Air Force Academy announced they were making “so help me God” option in the school’s honor oath after a threat from the anti-Christian Military Religious Freedom Foundation.
“This phrase is a deeply-rooted American tradition – begun by George Washington as the first president of the United States and now stated by many who take an oath of service to our country,” Ron Crews of the Chaplain Alliance for Religious Liberty told Fox. “The removal of this phrase is a disservice to the countless men and women who wish to include this phrase as a solemn reminder that they are pledging their fidelity to God and their country.”
Crews pointed out that law requires the words remain part of the oath.
The anti-Christian Military Religious Freedom Foundation has found another target in their quest to eliminate Christ and Christians from the armed forces.
The group filed a complaint at the Air Force Academy claiming the phrase “so help me God” in the Academy’s honor oath is hostile toward those who do not profess a faith in their personal life.
Fox News reports that the Honor Review Committee of the Academy is reviewing the oath and will make recommendations to Academy leaders. The Academy Superintendent will make the final decision.
The current oath reads: “We will not lie, steal or cheat nor tolerate among us anyone who does. Furthermore, I resolve to do my duty and live honorably, so help me God.”
The Colorado Springs Independent newspaper obtained a photo last week of a poster at the academy with the oath and forwarded to the anti-Christian group.
“Removing this voluntary affirmation expresses hostility toward religion,” Ron Crews of the Chaplain Alliance for Religious Liberty told Fox News. “Further, it removes the solemnity and gravity of the oath, particularly for the many cadets who come from a faith tradition.”