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HAB911

(8,811 posts)
Mon Feb 13, 2017, 03:47 PM Feb 2017

Despite complaints, ACC will not remove posters that assert faith's importance

A pair of posters that focus on the importance of faith, which have been on display at Air Combat Command headquarters at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia, for years, will not be altered — despite recent complaints about them — according to command officials.

The Military Religious Freedom Foundation had contacted the base about removing the posters after complaints from the Langley community. In addition to objections to the faith-based message of the posters, which quotes a 1955 Air Force Manual, the foundation's president and founder, Mikey Weinstein, also complained that the posters only referenced male and not female airmen.

Weinstein said MRFF filed the complaint of behalf of 16 Air Force officers, NCOs and civilians. The complainants included nine women, according to Weinstein. He said four are Christians and the others are Jewish, Muslim, atheist, agnostic, humanist or secularist.

One of the complainants said the posters "clearly advocate a higher value in religious airmen over non-religious airmen, and communicate a necessity for religious faith to be successful as airmen. Both photos quote from AF Manual 50-21, dated August 1955 — the heart of the Red Scare when being non-religious was viewed as a trait of Communism and hence a threat."

https://www.airforcetimes.com/articles/acc-langley-posters-complaint

MRFF AND THE NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR WOMEN (NOW) JOIN FORCES!
http://militaryreligiousfreedom.org/press-releases/2017/Tobanna_Demand_ACCLangley_AFB_Feb_2017.html

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Despite complaints, ACC will not remove posters that assert faith's importance (Original Post) HAB911 Feb 2017 OP
Separation of Church and State means just that. guillaumeb Feb 2017 #1
Hey guillaumeb! HAB911 Feb 2017 #2
Agreed. guillaumeb Feb 2017 #3
I can't see much progress happening with issues like this during this administration. progressoid Feb 2017 #4
This is too depressing TxDemChem Feb 2017 #5
Mikey Weinstein and the MRFF mountain grammy Feb 2017 #6

guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)
3. Agreed.
Mon Feb 13, 2017, 03:57 PM
Feb 2017

I have read stories about the Academy for many years. It was called a hotbed of religious fundamentalists.

TxDemChem

(1,918 posts)
5. This is too depressing
Tue Feb 14, 2017, 08:32 AM
Feb 2017

It's bad enough to even have the posters, but to stick to their guns even after legitimate complaints...

mountain grammy

(26,571 posts)
6. Mikey Weinstein and the MRFF
Tue Feb 14, 2017, 12:32 PM
Feb 2017

are fighting the good fight and worthy of our support. Fundamentalism and the military are a dangerous combination. This is a First Amendment issue and I doubt the MRFF will give up.

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