lack of spine would be caving into pressure from the religious right
The Pentagon didn't inform the group in advance that some mysterious new law prevents them from letting the Air Force do the flyover.
It did so at the last minute; the event is now over.
look on the bright side, now you have something else to feed your paranoid persecution complex.
It's hard to feed something that I don't have. Perhaps, you're projecting again with your own paranoia, thinking that any time something remotely mentioning God and government (country) is some breach of the Constitution.