Clebe: Jerry Falwell likes 'im! |
Five faculty members at the U.S. Air Force Academy and a watchdog group, the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, filed a lawsuit on Monday asking a federal judge to block a National Prayer Luncheon at the academy, saying it violates the First Amendment’s establishment clause. Four of the professors are proceeding as “John Doe plaintiffs,” the complaint says, because they fear retribution from the command structure at the academy, which has faced accusations of condoning religious proselytizing in the past. The keynote speaker at the prayer luncheon, set for February 10, is to be a retired Marine lieutenant, Clebe McClary, who is described on his Web site as a motivational speaker “in the service of the Lord’s Army.” In a statement quoted by the Associated Press and the Air Force Times, the academy said that attendance at the event would be voluntary and that it would “let the legal process take its course.”Again. Good grief.
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