There appears to be a double standard at the Air Force Academy. The academy is defending its promotion of an atheist event just a week after a Christian cadet was pressured into removing a Bible verse from his personal whiteboard because it allegedly offended non-Christian cadets. “Ask an Atheist Day” was sponsored by the Freethinkers […]
For more than a decade, new military recruits at the Maxwell Air Force Base Gunter Annex in Alabama have received a Bible from Gideons International volunteers. But that tradition has come to an end after volunteers said they were told by the military that they would no longer be allowed to personally distribute the pocket-sized
The Restore Military Religious Freedom coalition, a group of two dozen like-minded religious liberty organizations, announced Thursday that it is ready to offer assistance to any Air Force Academy cadet who faces repercussions for writing Bible verses on their hallway whiteboards. The Air Force Academy (USAFA) admitted Wednesday that a cadet leader had to remove a
The Air Force Academy (USAFA) removed a Bible verse posted on a cadet’s whiteboard after it determined the posting had offended other cadets, a spokesman for the academy says. The cadet wrote the passage on the whiteboard posted outside his room. “I have been crucified with Christ therefore I no longer live, but Christ lives
Matthew Morgan was crumpled on the pavement, laying in a pool of blood. Bones had torn through his flesh. His left foot was nearly severed. As he lapsed into and out of consciousness, a jarring thought crossed the Baptist preacher’s mind: He no longer had health insurance. “That was one of the first thoughts I
“I was horrified,” says John Stemberger, chairman of the board of Trail Life USA, a new, rapidly growing Scouting organization that doesn’t allow openly gay members. Stemberger is referring to an Associated Press photograph that accompanied an in-depth story about Trail Life. The image showed a group of young boys gathered in a circle with
Uwe and Hannelore Romeike came to the United States in 2008 seeking political asylum. They fled their German homeland in the face of religious persecution for home schooling their children. They wanted to live in a country where they could raise their children in accordance with their Christian beliefs. The Romeikes were initially given asylum,
Purdue University, which once defended the right of a private speaker to blaspheme Jesus, has banned an alumni donor from using the word God on a plaque because it might offend someone. Dr. Michael McCracken and his wife made a $12,500 pledge to the university’s school of mechanical engineering. In return, Purdue, a large public university
The culture war may be lost, and religious liberty might not be that far behind, according to a new survey from LifeWay Research. Seventy percent of senior pastors at Protestant churches say religious liberty is on the decline in the United States, and 59 percent of Christians believe they are losing the culture war. Eleven
The Girl Scouts make a great thin mint – but I’ve decided not to buy their cookies this year. Pro-life groups around the nation have launched a boycott of their cookies because of the organization’s alleged ties to Planned Parenthood. In 2011, former Girl Scouts CEO Kathy Cloninger told NBC’s The Today Show that they did have
Stop feeding starving children, or else! The American Humanist Association (AHA) sent that message to a school in Robbinsdale, Minn., accusing them of violating the U.S. Constitution by allowing students to participate in a community service project at a church that involved preparing meals for impoverished children in Haiti. The humanists got their britches in
Students and parents at a Colorado high school are outraged after administrators turned down their request for a spirit week day honoring America because it might offend non-Americans. “They said they didn’t want to offend anyone from other countries or immigrants,” a 16-year-old member of the student council told me. “They just really did not
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