As one Academy faculty member, an active duty USAF officer, wrote to MRFF upon seeing Maj. Dowty's post in the Falcon Clips: "How can we look upon our senior staff as defenders of the Constitution when they clearly endorse this pro-Christian supremacy commentary? When they don't take a hard stance against this type of behavior, what are we to think as their subordinates? This is why I am always reluctant to air my grievances -- what will they do to me because I don't support their beliefs?"
The situations might be different -- the Gamble investigation, the Academy's National Character and Leadership Symposium, the distribution by the Academy's superintendent of an inappropriate blog post -- but the reaction is always the same. Cadets, and even faculty members, who don't fit into the Academy's prescribed religious mold are afraid to speak out, always coming back to that question: "What will they do to me because I don't support their beliefs?"
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