{"id":8606,"date":"2009-12-27T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-27T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/12\/27\/air-force-academy-says-religious-climate-improving\/"},"modified":"2009-12-27T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-27T12:00:00","slug":"air-force-academy-says-religious-climate-improving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/12\/27\/air-force-academy-says-religious-climate-improving\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Force Academy Says Religious Climate Improving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2009\/12\/16\/air-force-academy-religio_n_394728.html\">www.huffingtonpost.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO, December 2009: The Air Force Academy says religious tolerance has improved dramatically since allegations five years ago that evangelical Christians harassed cadets who didn&#8217;t share their faith. Even the school&#8217;s most vocal critic agrees.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is the first time we feel positive about things there,&#8221; said Mikey Weinstein, founder of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, which battled the academy in court over claims that evangelicals at the school were imposing their views on others.<\/p>\n<p>The academy superintendent, Air Force Lt. Gen. Michael Gould, says the improvements are the result of a topdown campaign to foster respect and a commitment to accommodate all cadets, even nonbelievers and an &#8220;Earth-centered&#8221; religious group that needed a place for a stone circle so it could worship outdoors.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If we are going to have success in our primary mission of developing leaders of character, we have to do that based on respect in all things, whether we&#8217;re talking gender, race or religion,&#8221; Gould said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: www.huffingtonpost.com COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO, December 2009: The Air Force Academy says religious tolerance has improved dramatically since allegations five,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}