ADDENDUM::Air Force Leaders Hammer Helpless Subordinates With Evangelical 'Gospel Explosion' | Michael L. (Mikey) Weinstein, Esq.

Mikey's take on the debacle known as "Gospel Explosion" at Cannon AFB:

However, what we DO have a MAJOR problem with is the fact that the Air Force command leadership has grown accustomed to brazenly violating numerous Department of Defense and Air Force directives, regulations, and instructions in an airy, willy-nilly fashion. If the Master Sergeants at Cannon AFB want to promote participation in decidedly Christian gospel events, they need to leave this task to the USAF chaplaincy rather than unconstitutionally misappropriating that role for themselves. Not only is command staff usurping a position meant for the chaplaincy, but they are also trampling on the vital religious rights of helplessly subordinate Air Force personnel by blanketing them in "invitations" to attend events that are exclusively oriented towards people of the evangelical version of the Christian faith. Indeed, it's a cluster bomb of illegality.

Our civil rights foundation has already been contacted by 7 Air Force NCO/Officer clients at Cannon AFB - 6 of whom are of the Christian faith, the seventh of whom was raised in Christian faith traditions - regarding this outrageous travesty. The fact that they reached out to MRFF, rather than to their own USAF chain of command, indicates the pathetically sorry state of the command climate on base.
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Simply put, our MRFF clients justly fear reprisal and retribution for protesting their military superiors' illegal, unconstitutional activities. That's why they come to us for help. As I stated recently in another article written about a similar Constitutional outrage, "To the USAF, regulations and Constitutional provisions appear to mean as much as would a few flies buzzing around at a family picnic; to wit, a mere trifle easily disregarded and ignored with impunity."

Air Force Leaders Hammer Helpless Subordinates With Evangelical 'Gospel Explosion' | Michael L. (Mikey) Weinstein, Esq.