Dear The Air Force, There's Something Fucking Wrong With You

What. The. Ever. Loving. Fuck?

Seriously, Air Force chaplains? Seriously?

I know I don't need to write a piecemeal take-down of this bullshit, and I don't need to rail. But I'm gonna lose my shit anyway because this bollocks is not okay.

When you have Pagans struggling at the AF Academy to get a simple circle of rocks set aside for their religious purposes, and all the while, you've been using Christian doctrine throughout an ethics course, there's something fucking wrong with you. (And all the "we've supported the Pagans getting their circle the whole time" is a load of bullshit heavier than that created by the combined forces of the Tea Party. Have a wee discussion with TSgt Longcrier, and he'll give you the what what.)

When Jews are called whiners in mass e-mails of the official variety, yet they're being told that Jesus says it's okay to nuke other countries, there's something fucking wrong with you.

When those who disagree with the policies that allow evangelical Christians to pressure others are fired from their positions, there's something fucking wrong with you.

When that douchefuck Breivik extensively quotes folks who've spoken at the AF Academy, there's something fucking wrong with you.

When atheists want equal time at the AF Academy and are flat fucking denied, there's something fucking wrong with you.

When you have Pagans at the AF Academy dealing with open hostility*--and tell me there wouldn't have been a HUGE MOTHERFUCKING RAWR of fundie outrage on Faux News if the Christian chapel there had been decorated with a symbol of our faith--and all the while, this ethics course has existed in this incarnation, there's something fucking wrong with you.

I wish this were only a problem at the Air Force. Fortunately for the rest of the services, the AF gets to take the full shot to the balls on this one. Not that they don't deserve a cock blow (and not the good kind), but when shit like this happens in other services, it ought to be trotted out, so that the world can see the pale, hairy ass of that service.

For example, when I witnessed a Catholic Navy chaplain telling his boss he couldn't deal with me because his religion apparently prohibits him even talking to me (a motherfucking chaplain said this, people - the dude who's responsible for working toward freedom of ALL religion on his base), I knew there was something fucking wrong with the Navy, too. Later, when the head chaplain flat ignored my follow-up e-mails after I met with his temporary replacement (he, apparently, gets to take vacation! and then come back and be a rotten dickbag), I knew once again there was something fucking wrong with the Navy.

These issues are pervasive throughout the services. But for today, I declare to the Air Force that your shit is about as fucky as it gets, especially since it appears that the worst instances are at the Academy, where the future leadership is being indoctrinated.

You are fucked, Air Force. Fix it.

*And I absolutely disagree with Mikey Weinstein saying it would be like painting a swastika on a synagogue. The Xians-as-Nazi-oppressors shit is completely unfair and untrue. That analogy is based largely on the Inquisition, which did not actually oppress any Pagans or Witches, since our religion didn't exist back then, kthxstfu. And also, though we do face a fuckton of prejudice still, we're not being burned at the fucking stake, and we're not being dumped into mass graves, kthxstfubai. A more appropriate analogy would be hanging a pentacle, a Thor's hammer, a goddess figure, etc. by the front door of a church. It's hostile, it's potentially threatening, but it's not anything like a fucking swastika aimed at Jews.