An Air Force chaplain who complained about evangelicals targeting Jews and others at the Air Force Academy says she was fired. “They said I should be angry about these outside groups who reported on the strident evangelicalism at the academy,” Capt. MeLinda Morton, a Lutheran minister, told the Washington Post last week. “”The problem is, I agreed with those reports.” Morton was told May 4 that her term at the Colorado academy was over, effective immediately. A spokesman for the academy said the dismissal was standard procedure because Morton is to take up a post in Okinawa in July. Morton countered that there was no “transition period” and that she normally would have been expected to stay at the academy until her move.
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