Source: The Albuquerque Journal

Wire Service: AP

http://www.abqjournal.com/news/18103140aqmikey10-18-05.htm

On October 18, 2005 the Associated Press reported, "A Jewish graduate of the Air Force Academy who contends senior officers and cadets illegally imposed Christianity on others at the school has offered to settle his lawsuit if the Air Force will agree none of its members will attempt to convert other members. Micheal 'Mikey' Weinstein said in an interview Tuesday with The Associated Press that he wants the Air Force to stop wasting 'time, effort, blood, sweat, tears and money' and agree to uphold the U.S. Constitution. Sam Bregman of Albuquerque, Weinstein's attorney, asked the Air Force Tuesday to agree to a stipulated order in federal court that no one in the Air Force, including a chaplain, will 'in any way attempt to involuntarily convert, pressure, exert or persuade a fellow member of the USAF to accept their own religious beliefs while on duty'... Weinstein's lawsuit alleges that during the past decade or more, academy leaders have fostered an environment of religious intolerance at the Colorado school in violation of the First Amendment... Weinstein said his settlement offer gives the Air Force a way to 'stop burning taxpayer dollars and get out of this embarrassing lawsuit.'"