Source: The Washington Post
On May 14, 2005 The Washington Post reported, "an Air Force chaplain who protested that evangelical Christians were trying to 'subvert the system' by winning converts among cadets at the Air Force Academy was removed from administrative duties last week, just as the Pentagon began an in-depth study of alleged religious intolerance among cadets and commanders at the school... But Lieutenant Colonel Laurent Fox, an academy spokesman, said: 'The choice of a new executive officer was a standard transition. The situation is, both the commanding officer [of the chaplain unit] and the executive officer are scheduled to leave this post in a couple of months. It was decided to replace the executive officer now for reasons of continuity.' Amid a rising chorus of protests about preferential treatment for evangelical Christians -- and command pressure on nonevangelicals -- among the 4,000 cadets, a Pentagon task force is visiting the Colorado Springs campus this week to study the religious atmosphere and propose possible remedial steps."