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Air Force Academy Backtracks on Christmas Toy Drive Because it is Too Christian
TheBlaze ^ | 11042011 | Madeleine Morgenstern

Posted on 11/04/2011 1:16:30 PM PDT by TheDailyChange

"The U.S. Air Force Academy has pulled out of a Christian-sponsored children’s toy drive after commanders were accused of religious intolerance."

(Excerpt) Read more at theblaze.com ...


TOPICS: Local News; Military/Veterans; Religion; Society
KEYWORDS: bhomilitary; christian; obama; pc; politicalcorrectness; usairforceacademy
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PATHETIC!
1 posted on 11/04/2011 1:16:38 PM PDT by TheDailyChange
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To: TheDailyChange

That doesn’t make any sense. Christmas is a CHRISTIAN holiday!


2 posted on 11/04/2011 1:19:26 PM PDT by SMARTY ("The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings. "Henri Frederic Amiel)
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To: TheDailyChange

Is there a nice word for “Cowardice”?


3 posted on 11/04/2011 1:21:01 PM PDT by Hodar ( Who needs laws; when this FEELS so right?)
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To: TheDailyChange

But they TEACH the ‘five pillars’ of islam.


4 posted on 11/04/2011 1:23:38 PM PDT by MestaMachine (obama kills)
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To: TheDailyChange

Funny. The one thing you can see from I-25 is the iconic AF Academy Chapel. It stands out... pathetic is an understatement.


5 posted on 11/04/2011 1:24:55 PM PDT by Mathews (Ecclesiastes 10:2 (NIV))
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To: MestaMachine

Muslims are only interested in one pillar.


6 posted on 11/04/2011 1:30:48 PM PDT by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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To: TheDailyChange

Obama strikes again...


7 posted on 11/04/2011 1:32:00 PM PDT by Thunder90 (Fighting for truth and the American way... http://citizensfortruthandtheamericanway.blogspot.com/)
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To: Hodar

If you ever have an opportunity to use LOGIC in a discussion with a Muslim who embraces Sharia Law, please let me know how that turns out for you.

Thanks


8 posted on 11/04/2011 1:35:39 PM PDT by TheDailyChange (Politics,Conservatism,Liberalism)
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To: TheDailyChange

9 posted on 11/04/2011 1:36:29 PM PDT by wolfman23601
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To: wolfman23601

I suppose Toys for Tots will be next.


10 posted on 11/04/2011 1:37:28 PM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: SMARTY

Exactly. PC acadumbic knuckleheadism has infected the service academies.


11 posted on 11/04/2011 1:46:56 PM PDT by steelyourfaith (If it's "green" ... it's crap !!!)
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To: TheDailyChange

How nice, we have cowards running the military...muslums will be jumping with joy....The one that made that decision should be retired or thrown out on his/her bony arse...


12 posted on 11/04/2011 2:00:10 PM PDT by goat granny
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To: TheDailyChange

I guess the military brass HAS lost their collective cahoneys


13 posted on 11/04/2011 2:02:08 PM PDT by dirtymac (Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country., Really! NOW!!!)
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To: TheDailyChange

“Into the air, junior birdmen!”

“Into the air, upside down!”

(Ancient Air Force song.)


14 posted on 11/04/2011 2:19:38 PM PDT by IbJensen (The best thing you can do for the poor is not be one of them.)
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To: TheDailyChange

WWGCEL say?
General is a clue? Cigar, if you need more.
Can you say “Fire Bomb”?


15 posted on 11/04/2011 2:45:24 PM PDT by GOYAKLA (Re-flush Congress in 2012, some crap remains!)
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To: SMARTY

That may be the case, but we are rapidly becoming a muslim country.

Just look around yourself.


16 posted on 11/04/2011 2:51:26 PM PDT by 353FMG (Liberalism is Satan's handiwork.)
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To: TheDailyChange

this nation is doomed...


17 posted on 11/04/2011 3:28:03 PM PDT by ColdSteelTalon (Light is fading to shadow, and casting its shroud over all we have known...)
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To: TheDailyChange

Actually, in this case, there is a conflict of interest that is normally handled by the Chaplain’s Corps. They have long kept the line between sectarianism and acceptable behavior in the military, and have done so despite the efforts of those inside and outside of the military to inject sectarianism into the military. Who usually protest loudly when they are caught breaking the rules.

In this case, getting and sending the gifts was fine, and even as Christmas gifts would be acceptable, if sent to Christian children or non-Christian children, who with their families were willing to accept gifts based in a Christian holiday.

However, what was not okay, was for this Christian organization to insert sectarian messages with the gifts. And it would have been a problem many years ago as well, had one Christian sect attempted to send the children of a different Christian sect toys with religious doctrines of the first sect only in them. That would have also created heartburn.

In past, I have seen a senior chaplain relieved, because while giving what was supposed to be a non-denominational invocation before a mixed group of military, he could not resist inserting sectarian dogma, which he made much worse by asserting that it was military policy.

So this gift giving event was probably not completely offensive, just a small part of it. And by turning it over to the Chaplain’s Corps, they would delete what elements that were unacceptably sectarian.


18 posted on 11/04/2011 3:38:03 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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Weinstein is not a Muslim, but a Christian-hating Jew. The country is 95 percent Christian, the military 98.5 percent Christian. Yet a tiny minority of anti-Christan non Christians can impose their will. Something is terribly wrong here.
19 posted on 11/04/2011 3:44:27 PM PDT by Godwin1
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To: Hodar

If PC makes you sick, please don’t visit the AF Academy home page. The whole damned place is overrun with sweetness and light, including the Superintendant, a politico with no combat experience, Lt. General Michael C. Gould. I plan to follow that name, and can only hope that he will soon retire.


20 posted on 11/04/2011 3:59:36 PM PDT by Melchior
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