Thursday, May 05, 2005

Today's sign of the apocalypse

Hugh Hewitt reports on the McCarthyite tactics of Americans United for Separation of Church and State. These radical secularists want to drive religion out of the Air Force and attempt to do so with a "report" that sounds like a Weekly World News article:

Even a cursory review of AU's "report" reveals it is built on multiple levels of undocumented hearsay. Over and over again the phrase "we have been informed" introduces an allegation of misconduct, or "we have received a host of reports" leads to a serious charge. There are zero footnotes and zero affidavits attached to the report. Not even amazing charges such as the assertion that "General Weida has established a system of code words that he shares with evangelical Christian cadets in order to provide them with opportunities to proselytize others in the Cadet Wing" raised eyebrows with the acting secretary [of the Air Force]. When [AU]'s staff charges "egregious violations of the Establishment Clause," the Pentagon should know that this is like Peter crying wolf for the ten thousandth time.

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