[pabianice]

Hard to believe. When I entered the Navy through AOCS, the Navy bent over backwards to ensure tolerance. As I was the only Jew in the regiment, every Friday evening a bus pulled-up to the barracks to take me to services in town and then back. A bus seemed excessive for just one passenger, but that was probably all they had.

[LomanBill]

>>the Navy bent over backwards to ensure tolerance.

 

The Naval Academy doesn't have jackwagons like this...

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Haggard

 

...doing "bidness" on the temple steps in it's front yard.

 

With those kind of antics going on, Colorado Springs is becoming increasingly polarized over religious issues, and unfortunately the activists on both sides seem to have difficulty articulating the intent of the American First Principles codified into the 1st amendment prohibition against state establishments of religion.

"...fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world, and through all time..."

--The Virginia Act For Establishing Religious Freedom
--Thomas Jefferson, 1786

http://religiousfreedom.lib.virginia.edu/sacred/vaact.html

 

 

"I HAVE SWORN UPON THE ALTAR OF GOD ETERNAL HOSTILITY

TO EVERY FORM OF TYRANNY OVER THE MIND OF MAN"
--

Thomas Jefferson