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How f—ing stupid does the Air Force Academy think people are?
On October 30, the Air Force Academy men’s soccer team had a home game against Seattle University. This being the last home game for the Air Force Academy players who are seniors, a banner was put up below the scoreboard with each of the seniors’ jersey numbers on it. The players’ numbers were 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 9,11,12,15, and 16, and you think they would have appeared on the banner in that order, right? Wrong! All of the numbers were in numerical order except for the 3. The 3 was place in between the 15 and the 16, making the banner end with 3 16, which as many people will remember from Tim Tebow’s short-lived football career means John 3:16, the sports world’s favorite Bible verse — “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting
And now, albeit not in as flashy a manner as a guy jumping around in a rainbow wig, we have the ever-Christian-supremacist U.S. Air Force Academy sneaking it in on a soccer game banner, seen not just by those attending the game but also all those viewing it online.
Immediately after the game, the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) received a number of emails pointing out this slick bit of Christian proselytizing by the Academy’s soccer team, and MRFF founder and president fired off an email to the Academy’s superintendent Lieutenant General Richard M. Clark, who was present at the game and certainly saw the banner, demanding an investigation.
"There was no significance to the order of the senior jersey numbers posted in the soccer stadium during last weekend’s men’s soccer game. The intent was to recognize the 10 seniors playing in their last home game. Recognition was conducted in a pregame ceremony with the players and their families and with two banners inside the soccer stadium highlighting their jersey numbers (1,2,3,6,8,9,11,12,15,16). The numbers were to be printed sequentially and attached to each banner. After completing the first banner, our staff recognized that the number three was missing. To correct the oversight, the number three was added to the second banner out of sequential order – it was done simply to insure the player was represented as one of the ten seniors.
"Again, the only intent behind the banners was to celebrate the senior cadets at their final home soccer game."
Advisory Board Member Marty France, a retired Air Force brigadier general and former professor and department head at the Academy, called this absurd lie out for what it is, also noting that this is just the latest in a string of Christian supremacist actions by the Academy — following on the heels of August’s “Spiritual Fitness Month” and the Academy’s scheduling the most important training day of the semester on the Jewish high holy day of Yom Kippur, another of the Academy’s so-called “oversights” for which three United States senators are now demanding answers.
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