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I STOPPED GIVING MONEY TO AMERICANS UNITED

for the Separation of Church and State a long time ago.  It seemed to me that they had been “captured” by a radical fringe wishing to expunge any acknowledgement of the Christian God whatever, and I didn’t want to support that.


My mind hasn’t been changed in the years since, as I’ve watched the increasing extremes to which this group will go, along with, admittedly, the numbers of things they do that I can support and even applaud.


Their latest outrageous crusade is at the U.S. Air Force Academy, as reported by HUGH HEWITT in the WEEKLY STANDARD  Americans United (sic) has

leveled a series of very serious charges against almost everyone at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado….Even a cursory review of AU’s “report” reveals it is built on multiple levels of undocumented hearsay.


Actually, it’s even worse than the Weekly Standard article suggests, as HUGH HEWITT.COM reveals.

The column had already been filed when a 2004 graduate of the Academy, who participated in a “Protestant chapel service during Basic Cadet Training” referred to in the document and in a general assembly of all cadets, flatly contradicted one of the most serious charges leveled at Commandant of Cadets General Johnny Weida—that he had developed a “system of code words” for communicated secretly with evangelical Christian cadets (p. 6 of the “report.“)

 


Even some fairly cursory research will convince most folks that AU is off on the wacky side with some of their “investigations”.  Yet I don’t remember a single time that my church (SDA) has warned AU, the membership of the church, or the public at large against the dangers of extremism among the “separation of church and state” crowd.  Contrast that with the constant drumbeats about the threats posed by the Pope, by James Dobson, and always about “The Religious Right”, in this country. 


Is there any room for balance?  Perhaps we should recognize the dangers of radical secularism as well as the “threat” of a coming theocracy…..the signs of the former are all around us, and I still have a hard time finding much evidence of the latter.

Posted by on 05/05 at 09:46 AM
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