What are your thoughts on the U.S. Air Force ordering a cadet to remove a biblical quote from his whiteboard?

Religion generally doesn't belong at work, unless your work is religion. The Air Force is not about religion. It is about killing people and the support structures necessary to efficiently kill people. That is what military structures are for. There are a couple of points here. This is an order to a cadet. Cadet's are given a lot of orders, some of them contradictory. Cadets are in an academy to learn how to take orders and how to give orders. Outside of a very, very limited set of fundamental rights, cadets are to do as they are told. The fact that something this minor has gone beyond an interaction between the cadet and their commanding officer does not speak well of the cadet's ability to manage their own affairs. Religious belief and basic religious activities like carrying copies of sacred books, prayer times, meetings and limited, standardized religious clothing is pretty well accommodated in the US military branches. The military is not required to accommodate every religious expression, and 'Barred From Writing Scripture Verses on a Public Whiteboard' does not even tick my concern about religious freedom. Finally, the Air Force Academy has a terrible reputation from the activities of commanding officers and teaching staff, as well as many students in the late 90's and early 2000's surrounding accommodating religious beliefs other than a dispensationalist, pre-millenial, dominionist kind of American Western Protestant Christianity. Reining back in the 'default Christianity' of the Air Force Academy should have been done far, far earlier. Oh, and copying directly from Brian Fischer's AFA emails is a novel standard of proof.

My Feelings (since that is what you asked for)This has nothing to do with censorship. This is about separation of church and state. I don't at all feel that his rights were in any way violated. My RantHaving actually been in the military I remember how much bigotry came from the Christians. Including the war in Iraq being turned into us vs. Muslims. There was a strong influence from Christians that alienated all other religions. When I was in bootcamp, many of us simply identified ourselves as Pagan to avoid the church services that everyone was forced to attend. And we were given a very hard time by the Christian staff. That was in 2000, not sure who much has changed. The TruthThe real story was likely taken out of context and sensationalized anyways.

About the same as that Christian cadet would feel about a Muslim cadet posting the message "death to the infidels".