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Air Force Cadets See Religious Harassment
By ROBERT WELLER, Associated Press Writer

Tuesday, April 19, 2005


(04-19) 11:33 PDT AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. (AP) --


Less than two years after it was plunged into a rape scandal, the Air Force Academy is scrambling to address complaints that evangelical Christians wield so much influence at the school that anti-Semitism and other forms of religious harassment have become pervasive.


There have been 55 complaints of religious discrimination at the academy in the past four years, including cases in which a Jewish cadet was told the Holocaust was revenge for the death of Jesus and another was called a Christ killer by a fellow cadet.


The 4,300-student school recently started requiring staff members and cadets to take a 50-minute religious-tolerance class.


"There are things that have happened that have been inappropriate. And they have been addressed and resolved," said Col. Michael Whittington, the academy's chief chaplain.

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