Air Force Academy – A Colorado Springs group dedicated to separation of church and state has been added to an Air Force Academy religious education program that has been criticized for promoting evangelical Christianity.
Free Thinkers of Colorado Springs has joined the school’s Special Programs in Religious Education, an umbrella group for extracurricular religious programs.
The academy is to be congratulated for recognizing “the need to expand mentoring services to cadets by including the secular as well as the religious,” Jeff Lucas of Free Thinkers said in a statement.
Free Thinkers formed in 1993 in response to “the special threat we find from religious groups in Colorado Springs,” according to the group’s website.
The group bills itself as “a haven for people moving away from religious dogma.”
Free Thinkers hopes to start work at the academy with weekly discussions and bring in prominent scientists, leading authors and academics.
