The Chronicle of Higher Education

Lawmakers Heatedly Debate Whether to Condemn 'Proselytizing' at Air Force Academy

By JEFFREY BRAINARD

Washington

Following a heated debate, the U.S. House of Representatives voted on Monday to strip an appropriations bill of language criticizing the "coercive and abusive religious proselytizing" of cadets at the U.S. Air Force Academy. Instead, lawmakers substituted a call for the development of "a positive...

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