Air Force Coach to Remove Christian Banner

[The Sushi Bandit]

<edit> can you belive this shit?

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-academy-religion,0,4993937.story?coll=sns-ap-nation-headlines

AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. -- The Air Force Academy's longtime football coach has agreed to remove a Christian banner from the team's locker room after school administrators announced they would do more to fight religious intolerance.

Coach Fisher DeBerry agreed Friday to remove the banner, which displayed the "Competitor's Creed," including the lines "I am a Christian first and last ... I am a member of Team Jesus Christ."

[shoelace414]

1. that it was up or that it is being removed?

[The Sushi Bandit]

2. That it was up

[Inland]

3. I thought that members of military were Americans first or AT LEAST last.

But apparently there is no room for any other loyaties besides one to Christ.

[candy]

4. How did it get up in the first place? Of course it should be removed.

[pelagius]

5. Air Force Academy is in...

...Colorado Springs, CO, home to a large number of right-wing Christian organizations. Coloradoans can probably provide more detail, but the town outstrips most of the Bible Belt in its evangelical fervor.