I’m glad to see that they’re attempting another investigation. Troutfishing over at Kos has done a bang up job thru the past few years reporting on this, and the MRFF of course is right on top of these outrages. If you read any of Troutfishing or the MRFF stuff, you’ll see it’s much more pervasive than they let on in the article.

DENVER — A retired Air Force general who once served as commandant of cadets at the Air Force Academy will assess the religious climate at the school, where allegations and court battles over religious tolerance have periodically flared for seven years.

Patrick K. Gamble, who retired as a four-star general in 2001 and is now president of the University of Alaska, was asked to take an “independent, subjective look at the overall climate at USAFA relating to free exercise of religion,” the Air Force said in a statement Friday.

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Mikey Weinstein, founder and president of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation and a vocal critic of the academy, criticized the scope of the review as it was outlined in the Air Force statement.

The problem at the school is not with any restriction on the free exercise of religion, but with unwanted proselytizing by fundamentalist Christians, a violation of the constitutional concept of the separation of church and state, he said.

Gamble said he had not ruled out looking at the separation issue. He said his review team is still getting organized and its scope hasn’t been determined.

“We’re going to take a blinders-off look, and nothing’s off the table, but nothing’s on the table, either,” he said.

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The tolerance issue surfaced when many cadets reported in a 2004 survey that they had heard slurs or jokes about other religions. Some said they felt ostracized because they weren’t religious.