The Americans United for Separation of Church and State (AU) asserted " systematic and pervasive religious bias and intolerance at the highest levels " of the Air Force Academy. See my post on Framing Faith in the Media for all the details of this NON story.

There is no evidence for this assertion. Otherwise, the AU would launch a lawsuit. In their statement responding to the release of the report investigating this case, all the AU have the courage to do is  "to remain involved to ensure that the basic constitutional rights of all cadets are respected."

Because there are Christians at work in the Air Force Academy in positions of leadership it is assumed by the AU and the media that there must be bias. It is the prism the media see the world through. It's wrong for the church to impose it's faith on the state; therefore, they conclude it's wrong for people of faith to be open about their faith at work because that very openness will be an imposition on others. The problem is that the evidence for imposition is just not there. The Academy investigated the assertions made by the AU in their report and did not find much substance to them. So I say if the AU is serious about rooting out that bias why do they not bring a lawsuit against the Air Force and present their evidence. The reason the AU does not do this is that there is NO evidence

I came across a quote that helps understand just what is really going on in this NON story of religious bias.

Charles Krauthammer's June 6 column  in Time takes the New Republic to task for celebrating fashionable "doubt" I think he is replying to Andrew Sullivan's article Another Conservatism Doubt verses. Fundamentalism. In his reply he helps frame the culture war that produces charges of religious bias at the Air Force Academy.

"The Op-Ed pages are filled with jeremiads about believers--principally evangelical Christians and traditional Catholics--bent on turning the U.S. into a theocracy. Now I am not much of a believer, but there is something deeply wrong--indeed, deeply un-American--about fearing people simply because they believe. It seems perfectly O.K. for secularists to impose their secular views on America, such as, say, legalized abortion or gay marriage. But when someone takes the contrary view, all of a sudden he is trying to impose his view on you. And if that contrary view happens to be rooted in Scripture or some kind of religious belief system, the very public advocacy of that view becomes a violation of the U.S. constitutional order.

What nonsense. The campaign against certainty is merely the philosophical veneer for an attempt to politically marginalize and intellectually disenfranchise believers. Instead of arguing the merits of any issue, secularists are trying to win the argument by default on the grounds that the other side displays unhealthy certainty or, even worse, unseemly religiosity."

This statement captures what I think is going on in the AU and in the media in its campaign to expose religious bias at the Air Force Academy. The real bias is AU's fanatical attempt to impose its "freedom from religion" views on society and silence sincere people of faith at work That's the real story here!