Settlement Offer In Suit Against Air Force Academy

The plaintiff in a law suit filed recently against the Air Force Academy challenging prosetylization of cadets has offered to settle. (See prior posting.) The Associated Press reported yesterday that Sam Bregman, the Albuquerque attorney representing the plaintiff who is an Academy graduate and father of a current cadet, faxed a letter to Mary L. Walker, the Air Force's top lawyer in Washington, making the offer. Bregman asked the Air Force to agree to a stipulated order in federal court that no one in the Air Force, including a chaplain, will "in any way attempt to involuntarily convert, pressure, exert or persuade a fellow member of the USAF to accept their own religious beliefs while on duty.'' He also asked that the service not permit or advance one religion over another, or over no religion.