A Christian US Air Force Major who had an open Bible on his desk has been told he can keep it there, after secularists had prompted an investigation, it was reported in August.
The Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) had called for ‘swift, visible and aggressive punishment’ for US Air Force Major Steve Lewis over the issue. However, the Air Force has now said there was ‘no abuse of liberties’ and that having an open Bible on a desk is ‘well within the provisions’ of its regulations on religious expression.
Philippians
Pictures taken of Major Steve Lewis’s Bible appeared to show it open at the end of the book of Philippians, with some verses highlighted and underlined. He had removed the Bible voluntarily after the row erupted, because ‘he didn’t want this to cause attention or disruption to his unit’.
