Air Force Academy football players allowed to pray publicly

Written by Linda Digby 08 Jan 2016
Air Force Academy football players allowed to pray publicly

Recently the United States Air Force Academy received a complaint about its football players kneeling in prayer. They would pray in the end zone before or after their games against other teams. Mikey Weinstein, founder and president of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, said it was outrageous to allow a football team to engage in massive orchestrated sectarian Christian prayers right before kickoff for the world to see on television. He called it ‘a monstrous travesty and brutal breach of federal constitutional law and Department of Defense/Air Force regulations.’ An inquiry was initiated, which found the football players' actions to be consistent with Air Force guidance on the free exercise of religion.

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