Blog from the Capital

Today's Washington Times reports on yesterday's rather anti-climactic decision in the case charging the Air Force with supporting the proselytizing efforts of evangelical Christians within the military, in violation of the religious freedom of cadets.

U.S. District Judge James A. Parker said the academy graduates who filed suit could not claim their First Amendment rights were violated because they no longer attended the academy.

Moreover, the judge in Albuquerque, N.M., said the group failed to give specific examples of which cadets were harmed or when.

"Without that personal link or connection to future misconduct, plaintiffs have simply not shown that they will suffer an injury in fact that is both concrete and particularized and actual or imminent," Judge Parker wrote.

Some background on the case, filed a year ago, is here. One of the plaintiffs, Mikey Weinstein, started the Military Religious Freedom Foundation. Its blog is here (so far no comment on this development but I'll keep watching). Weinstein also has a new book released this month, "With God on Our Side: One Man's War Against an Evangelical Coup in America's Military"