Rev. Morton, who I talked about a couple of days ago, has been fired as a chaplain at the Air Force Academy for speaking out about the coercive theocratic environment that our cadets are subjected to. See also Americans United For Separation of Church and State - Chaplain Fired

DailyKos has a new diary summarizing a lot of the stuff surrounding the Air Force Academy religious scandal.

Rev. Morton knew she’d be fired. But she spoke out because she knew it was right to do so.

I’ve said before that I myself experienced (in the military) the intense pressure to join the evangelical community. The difference between my own experience and what is happening at the Air Force Academy is the degree to which military leaders supplied the pressure. In my case, I did not see any pressure from leadership. But the AF Academy case is vastly different.

Daily Kos :: When the State become the Church
What happens when church merges with state? What happens when government agencies promote one religious view over another? What happens when one version of Christianity is promoted over another by government agents?

Look no further than the United States Air Force Academy at Colorado Springs, Colorado where conservative evangelical Christianity is aggressively promoted, conflated with the mission of the Air Force, cadets of other faiths are frequently insulted and forced to choose between mandatory academy functions and their religious holidays, and now a Lutheran chaplain has been fired for daring to criticize the culture of religious bigotry, and religious supremacism protected and enforced on campus.

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This is what happens when church and state are merged. Government officials will use their positions to promote their religious and religiously informed political views; they will punish and purge those who disagree; and they will persecute those in the weakest position who do not go along. They feel justified in doing so, because they claim that their religious views require them to do so.