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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-22-05 12:42 PM
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AF chaplain who blew whistle on religious intolerance at Academy resigns
Air Force Academy chaplain resigns


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http://www.salon.com/news/wire/2005/06/22/academy_religion/print.html


June 22, 2005 | AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. -- ...

Capt. Melinda Morton resigned Tuesday after 13 years serving the Air Force, one day before a task force created in early May was to release its report.

Morton had said in May that she was fired from her chaplaincy at the school and a transfer to Japan was hastened because she spoke out about the academy's religious climate. School officials said her move was routine.
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Critics have said that evangelical Protestants were harassing cadets of other faiths at the school, in violation of constitutional principles of separation of church and state in the military.

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Double T Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-22-05 12:51 PM
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1. Don't Mess With Jesus In America Or You'll Be Sent Away And Banished...
to foreign lands. SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE IS DONE FOR A DAMN GOOD REASON!!!!!!
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