Congressman Criticizes Air Force Religion Guidelines

As I reported in a previous posting, recently the Air Force issued Guidelines discouraging public prayer at most official functions. The Forward today reports that U.S. Representative Walter B. Jones, the North Carolina member of the Armed Services Committee, has strongly criticized the Guidelines as an assault on "the Judeo-Christian values of America" and argued that the Air Force was "yielding to outside political pressure". In July, Jones introduced a bill (HR 3430) that would protect voluntary non-denominational prayer at military academies.