Outrageous

Lawmaker criticizes academy chaplain’s reassignment

The Air Force’s decision to reassign a deputy chaplain at the Air Force Academy who co-wrote a report about improper religious pressures on cadets has all the signs of a cover-up, says Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass

Capt. Melinda Morton, who helped write a Yale Divinity School report that some academy officials were promoting evangelical Christianity in their official capacity as military officers is being reassigned to Japan.

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The Air Force’s explanation is that the academy’s chief of chaplains has moved up his retirement date, so it makes sense for his deputy — Morton — to also leave at the same time.

“It makes zero sense,” Frank said. “If anything, you would probably say if a new person was coming in, it would be better to have her there to help train him.”

The fact that the reassignment came just two weeks after Morton refused to defend the academy is more evidence she is being punished, Frank said.

He's right, this smells to high heaven. I applaud Capt Morton for her honesty and integrity. She deserves to be rewarded not punted off so she can't cause the powers that be any more grief. They should be ashamed but sadly I doubt they have the capacity.

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