'Religious bullying' at US Airforce Academy

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4091956.stm

The sprawling campus of America's elite Air Force Academy is silent for the summer holiday, but the din surrounding its role as an alleged hot-bed of religious intolerance is only getting louder.
For months now, unsavoury stories have circulated - first in the local media and now nationally - of cadets at the academy, situated at the foot of the Rocky Mountains, being bullied and discriminated against by evangelical Christians.

The academy, already rocked by a rape and sexual abuse scandal, has admitted that all is not well.

Authorities have received more than 50 complaints from students who felt they were being inappropriately proselytised...

[getmeouttahere]

1. And the Fundies whine about....

being discriminated against by secular humanists. I'd sure like to know where THAT is happening!

[glitch]

2. Heaven. ;) nt

[undeterred]

3. They have a habit of burying all kinds of bullying-

so this terrible but unsurprising.

[varun]

4. "Passionate Evangelising"

One Fundie is actaully defending the bullying by calling it "passionate evangelising". Wait till he goes to Saudi Arabia and faces "passionate Islam"...he will be the first one to cry foul. Its fun to bully as long as you are in the majority.

from the article:

"...Pastor Haggard says he believes cadets should be robust enough to withstand passionate evangelising. He denies systematic evangelical links to the academy..."

[undeterred]

5. And women should put up with "passionate sexual harassment"

and gays with "passionate homophobia"...