Preaching Religious Tolerance at the Academy

The Air Force Academy serves a vital purpose in our nation's defense.

In recent years it has become a battle ground for religious evangelists who want it to be a Christian fortress within a Christian fortress inside Fort Dobson, Colorado. Sheesh, is anything besides the apocalypse going to make these guys happy? And can I drive their Lexus if it just so happens to be "empty" one day?

But Mikey Weinstein is fighting the misuse of the Academy's mission. And so is his wife. She speaks up in the Gazette today:

It began when [Mikey] Weinstein, an Air Force Academy grad who is Jewish, learned his two sons were humiliated by religious slurs at the academy in 2004.

So far, his wife has taken “high cover,” like a fighter jet ready to “come down and do some strafing missions” if needed, she said.

She hasn’t had to yet, but she’s fully prepared for it. She shares her husband’s view that the war is under way over the U.S. Constitution’s separation of church and state clause.

In her first one-on-one interview without her husband, Bonnie Weinstein told The Gazette in her mom’s Colorado Springs living room that she’s Mikey Weinstein’s co-pilot in every sense of the word.

Bonnie Weinstein, who has worked hard to remain fit and ambulatory after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, is like her husband when it comes to mincing words. She doesn’t.

“We’re asking for equality and religious tolerance, nothing more,” she said.

I guess it is too much to ask that Christians be tolerant of their fellow classmates. This seems to be against the New Christian Ethic.

But is it too much to ask that Retired Air Force Generals quit saying we need to get Jesus into Iraq? They already hate us, General!