With God on Our Side: One Man's War Against an Evangelical Coup in America's Military

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Macmillan, 2008 M02 19 - 288 pages

One of the most elite educational institutions in the world, the Air Force Academy has, from its inception, attracted the best and the brightest, producing leaders not only in the military but throughout American society.
In recent years, however, the Academy has also been producing a cadre of zealous evangelical Christians intent on creating a fundamentalist power base at the highest levels of our country.
With God on Our Side is shocking exposé of life inside the United States Air Force Academy and the systematic program of indoctrination sanctioned, coordinated, and carried out by fundamentalist Christians within the U.S. military.
It is also the story of Michael L. Weinstein, a proud Academy graduate and the father of two graduates and a current cadet, who single-handedly brought to light the evangelicals' utter disregard of the constitutional principle of separation of church and state that is so essential to the nation's military mission. Weinstein's war would pit him and his small band of fellow graduates, cadets, and concerned citizens against a program of Christian fundamentalist indoctrination that could transform our fighting men and women into "right-thinking" warriors more befitting a theocracy. In the process, he would come face to face with religious bigotry and at its most extreme and fight an unrelenting battle to save his beloved Academy, the ideals it stood for, and the very future of the country.
An important book at a critical time in our nation's history, With God on Our Side is the story of one man's courageous struggle to thwart a creeping evangelism permeating America's military and to prevent a taxpayer-funded theocracy in which only the true believers have power.

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Contents

A Family Tradition
1
The Cadet Chapel
6
A History of Honor and of Scandal
13
They Want You to Be in Heaven with Them
28
Sword of the Lord
40
The Passion of the Evangelicals
50
An External Review
64
Panic in the Air
73
We Reserve the Right to Evangelize the Unchurched
122
Awkward Uneasy Alienated
130
Struggle for a Daughters Soul
142
The Silence of the Brass
153
Weinstein Files Suit
163
Singled Out
176
In a Zone Beyond Fear
184
A Dark Secret Brought to Light
193

Circling the Wagons
81
Going National
90
A Chaplain Dismissed
99
The Brady Report
111
The Yale Practicum Report
211
Executive Summary of the Report of the
233
Index
247
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MICHAEL L. WEINSTEIN, the leader of the movement to restore the Constitutionally mandated separation of church and state in the United States military, is the founder and president of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation. He is an attorney and businessman who served on active duty in the U.S. Air Force as a judge advocate (JAG) for ten years and also worked for more than three years as legal counsel in the Reagan White House. He is the author of With God on Our Side. He lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. DAVIN SEAY, a reformed evangelical Christian, is the son of a career naval officer. The author of ten books and co-author of With God on Our Side, he lives in Woodland Hills, California.

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