Judas With Wings

Getting back to the Christophobes' anti-Crusade against the U.S. Air Force Academy, it's emerged that the "genesis" of this kerfuffle appears to be a false "chaplain" with a wounded ego.

Here’s a story that will throw you for a loop: a "chaplain" at the U.S. Air Force Academy is complaining that the school’s administration has a "systemic and pervasive" problem of promoting religious values with a Christian bent.

The chaplain, Captain Melinda Morton, a "Lutheran minister," spoke out publicly on Tuesday as an Air Force task force arrived at the academy to investigate charges that officers and staff members pushed their religious beliefs on cadets.

[S]he claimed that a tolerance program developed at the academy, called Respecting the Spiritual Values of all People (R.S.V.P.), was "watered down" after it was shown to officers.

For anybody familiar with how Christ-haters define religious "tolerance," that comment should set off alarm bells right there.

Major General Charles C. Baldwin, chief of chaplains for the Air Force, screened the 90-minute R.S.V.P. film in October, according to Captain Morton, and asked her, "Why is it that the Christians never win?" in reaction to some of the program’s depictions of cadet interactions.

Ooooh, sounds pretty "damning" doesn't it? The chief of chaplains of the entire Air Force complaining that Christians "never win"? Why, that dirty no-good theocrat! How dare, he, right?

Not quite.

General Baldwin acknowledged in an interview that he felt too many scenes in the film portrayed Christians at fault for excessive evangelical proselytizing.

In other words, Captain Morton was smearing Christians by depicting them as the wild-eyed, "Bible-thumping" caracture of atheistic propaganda rather than in any reasonable, realistic, or balanced fashion.

In short, she had an anti-evangelical axe to grind, as the general's additional comment reveals:

He also said he asked that the Air Force cut segments on non-Christian religions such as Buddhism, Judaism and Native American spirituality.

In other words, Captain Morton was not only smearing Christians, she was also proselytizing on behalf of non-Christian religions as well, most of which are almost entirely irrelevant to the cultural demographics represented in the ongoing cadet population.

Oh, but here's the real kicker:

The problem in dealing with proselytizing and church-state issues at the academy, he explained, "always is, when is a person crossing the line, or when are they being a positive person of faith, like our president."

If you dig down far enough in any of these "wave-making" causes celebe, you'll find hatred of George W. Bush in there somewhere.

Not only did Captain Morton have an agenda, but she was more than willing to violate the chain of command to advance it:

Morton, a 48-year-old "Lutheran minister," said she was removed from her post as executive officer to the chief chaplain, Col. Michael Whittington, last week. She claimed the dismissal came after he pressured her to deny details of what happened at the religious service.

But Whitaker said Whittington sent Morton an e-mail on May 4 saying he was removing her "to ensure a smooth and complete transition" for new leaders.

The bottom line is, this woman was trying to push her anti-Christian bias on Air Force Academy cadets by falsely attributing the reverse to her perceived cultural foes, and her superiors called her on it. So she broke ranks and went to the media with it in order to cause trouble for those superiors, who didn't grasp the "wisdom" of her point of view.

And....

She acknowledged that after speaking out, "I don’t think I have much future in the Air Force."

A status that is well earned by an officer that, I'm betting, won't be missed.