Secular victory: Air Force issues religious neutrality policy

 In a victory for secular America, a top U.S. Air Force official has issued new guidelines demanding that leaders at all levels take immediate steps to maintain government neutrality regarding religion.

SUBJECT: Maintaining Government Neutrality Regarding Religion

 

Leaders... must avoid the actual or apparent use of their position to promote their personal religious beliefs to their subordinates or to extend preferential treatment for any religion. Commanders or supervisors who engage in such behavior may cause members to doubt their impartiality and objectivity. The potential result is a degradation of the unit’s morale, good order, and discipline.

Commanders... must refrain from appearing to officially endorse religion generally or any particular religion.

It is about time that people start paying attention to what Christians are trying to do to our Constitution. The people who first came to America left their countries because of State run religion, they came because they wanted religious freedom.

The commanders and politicians that allowed these practices in the first place, should have to answer for it. Can't evangelical Christians ever see themselves on the receiving end of these policies? These are the people who would go ballistic if forced into any religion but their own.

Kudos to the USAF leadership for their prompt assertion of an honest recognition of prevailing Constitutional rights for all people. Now, if we could only prevail on the Christian Fundamentalist Right to recognized that that is America. America is not a theocracy, and the Constitution was written in part to assure that it never becomes one. So back off.

Excellent decision by the Air force, now to get the Army, Navy and Marines with their Fundamentalist Christian officers to also do the same. Fundamentalist Christianity is a cult.

i do not believe that the problem is fundamental christianity, our constitution guarantees freedom of religion it is the crossing of the seperation of church and state which I think is the issue at hand...

Warriors and religion are an uneasy combination

Why does it take a letter memorandum to say what was written into the Constitution two hundred years ago?

Part of the dominionist movement the military is infected badly especially USAF Academy.

It is time for the US and its citizens to stand up against fundamentalist Christianity.