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Impermissible Expression of Beliefs

David Harsanyi makes sense on the perception of religious intolerance at the Air Force Academy:

At the AFA, some cadets pray. Others had the temerity to mention Jesus in conversation. One cadet called another an "(expletive) Jew." This, we should deduce, means that there is institutional religious intolerance?

I've been called an "(expletive) Jew" plenty of times. Perhaps I should call for an investigation of Denver? Colorado?

But more distressing than being called an (expletive) Jew was an e-mail I received from a big shot at the Colorado ACLU the last time I wrote on the AFA.

This person offered to give me a lesson on the First Amendment - which, I suspect, would have been as constructive as a tutorial on marriage from Bill Clinton.

We'll see if the ACLU, which selectively fights for freedom, has a problem with the concept of "impermissible expression of beliefs."