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Ray Drew, Executive Director * Mark Silverstein, Legal Director

September 30, 2010

The Religious Liberty Committee of the American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado strongly
endorses the demands made by the Military Religious Freedom Foundation in its letter to the
Secretary of Defense, dated 9/28/10.

We agree that the content of the USAF Academy’s recent “Climate Survey” of religious, racial
and sexual preference attitudes by Cadets and Staff should be publicly released, as in the past.

We endorse the Foundation’s demand for an immediate and comprehensive study by the Dept.
of Defense of any direct or tacit endorsement by the USAF Academy Superintendant or other
staff, of aggressive proselytizing by fundamentalist Christian factions of USAF Academy cadets
and staff, both on and off campus.

Such endorsement, implied or otherwise, as detailed in the Foundation’s letter, is a clear

violation of the principle of separation of religion and government, as required by the First
Amendment of the Constitution. All cadets at the USAF Academy and, indeed, all members of
our Armed Forces must be granted full freedom of their religious beliefs, and it is government’s
responsibility to preserve these liberties for the brave protectors of our freedoms.

For the ACLU of Colorado and its Religious Liberty Committee:

C Ray Drew, Daniel Lynch and Peter Shultz,

Executive Director Co-chairs Religious Liberty Committee

400 Corona Street * Denver, CO 80218-3915 * 303.777.5482 * FAX 303.777.1773 * www.aclu-co.org