As your constituent, I am increasingly disturbed by Secretary Michael Donley's leadership of the United States Air Forces.
Under
his watch, in the past 12 months, religious liberties and faith-based
programs have been revoked at least four times. For example, in:
•
April 2012 - The Air Force removed the word "Bible" from its list of
items it to be provided in Air Force-approved lodging facilities. This
will almost certainly result in the eventual removal of Bibles
themselves from Air Base hotels or any hotel that does business with the
Air Force.
• February 2012 - The Air Force removed the word "God" from the logo of its Rapid Capabilities Office.
•
November 2011 - The Air Force Academy dropped "Operation Christmas
Child" after a single complaint from an atheist group. The Air Force
apologized to the atheists and ordered chaplains to no longer use
official mail to promote the charity.
• August 2011 - The Air
Force removed "Bible verses" from a military course taught to nuclear
missile officers (the ones who push the launch button).
Secretary Donley is creating a hostile environment among Airmen who hold deeply felt religious values.
Rather
than holding fast and defending the deeply-held religious traditions
and history of the Air Force, Secretary Donley has caved to the whims of
a few vocal atheists, effectively "cleansing" it of any respect for
religion.
If you serve on the Congressional Oversight Committee, I
urge you to begin an investigation into the anti-religious actions of
Secretary Michael Donley. If you are not on the COC, please encourage
the committee to take action.
Our Airmen deserve a leader who
respects the importance of faith in our nation's military. Secretary
Donley has been a huge disappointment.
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The Secretary of the Air Force needs to decide if he wishes to be esteemed by MAAT or listen to the words of the first two Presidents of the United States, who just MAY have had some understanding of the First Amendment:
TO THE OFFICERS OF THE FIRST BRIGADE OF THE THIRD DIVISION OF THE MILITIA OF MASSACHUSETTS. - John Adams, The Works of John Adams, vol. 9 (Letters and State Papers 1799-1811) [1854]
“…while it is rioting in rapine and insolence, this country will be the most miserable habitation in the world; because we have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/washing.asp
George Washington’s Farewell Address (1796):
Let it simply be asked: Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice ? And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
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