{"id":28747,"date":"2014-03-28T01:00:50","date_gmt":"2014-03-28T04:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=28747"},"modified":"2016-09-26T12:04:10","modified_gmt":"2016-09-26T15:04:10","slug":"another-billboard-goes-up-at-usafa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/28\/another-billboard-goes-up-at-usafa\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Billboard Goes up at USAFA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Restore Military Religious Freedom coalition took a page from Mikey Weinstein&#8217;s playbook and posted a billboard near the US Air Force Academy:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christianfighterpilot.com\/images\/billboardrestore.jpg\" width=\"460\" height=\"345\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On a background of Mount Rushmore, the text reads:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Air Force Cadets: Are you free to say &#8220;So help me God?&#8221; They did.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>and references the <a href=\"http:\/\/militaryfreedom.org\/\">militaryfreedom.org<\/a> website.\u00a0 The text, which <!--more-->refers to the Presidential tradition of saying &#8220;so help me God&#8221; at their inauguration, is apparently a reference to the omission of the words <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/20\/us-air-force-academy-will-restore-so-help-me-god\/\">from Contrails<\/a>, the &#8220;change&#8221; to <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/28\/usafa-says-so-help-me-god-is-optional\/\">the cadet honor oath<\/a>, and even the recent <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/12\/usafa-defends-cadets-against-mikey-weinstein-sort-of\/\">whiteboard incident<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(The whiteboard incident is still making news, with Nate Kellum, a ChristianPost contributor, accusing USAFA of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/air-force-academy-teaching-religious-censorship-116830\/\">teaching religious censorship<\/a>&#8221; when it used the Bible verse as a &#8220;teachable moment&#8221; to instruct cadets not to express their faith.)<\/p>\n<p>Rather than the one or two weeks of the MRFF billboards, the RMRF coalition piece will reportedly be up for two months.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Also at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onenewsnow.com\/legal-courts\/2014\/03\/28\/religious-freedom-coalition-erects-billboard-near-af-academy-seeks-meeting\">OneNewsNow<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbn.com\/cbnnews\/us\/2014\/March\/Billboard-Challenges-Air-Forces-God-less-Oath\/\">CBN News<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/conservative-groups-post-billboard-near-us-air-force-academy-to-support-so-help-me-god-oath-for-military-116898\/\">Christian Post<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charismanews.com\/us\/43285-billboard-asks-air-force-academy-cadets-are-you-free-to-say-so-help-me-god\">Charisma News<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizpacreview.com\/2014\/03\/28\/religious-freedom-group-puts-billboard-in-the-middle-of-militarys-so-help-me-god-controversy-109193\">BizPac Review<\/a>, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thomasmore.org\/news\/push-back-billboard-asks-air-force-cadets-are-you-free-say-so-help-me-god\">Thomas More Law Center<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-share=\"true\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-size=\"small\" data-action=\"like\" data-layout=\"standard\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>ADVERTISEMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><!-- blogpost --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"2728423835\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6450825356098669\"><\/ins><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Restore Military Religious Freedom coalition took a page from Mikey Weinstein&#8217;s playbook and posted a billboard near the US Air Force Academy: On a background of Mount Rushmore, the text reads: Air Force Cadets: Are you free to say &#8220;So help me God?&#8221; 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