Posted on 12/24/2013 5:41:06 AM PST by Doogle
Don’t say Christmas.
That’s the message that was conveyed to a group of soldiers at Camp Shelby by an equal opportunity officer from the Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute, according to a soldier who attended a recent briefing.
“It’s unbelievable that the Army would ban ‘Christmas’ like it’s a bad word,” said Michael Berry, an attorney with the Liberty Institute, a legal firm representing the unidentified soldier.
Two weeks ago, a routine meeting was held at the Mississippi base with various leaders of the 158th Infantry Brigade. During the meeting, they discussed an upcoming Christmas football tournament. The equal opportunity officer immediately objected to the usage of the word “Christmas.”
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I wish they would NAME THE OFFICER!
Jesus wept.
Just like the Communists - embed political officers in every military unit to monitor, control, and punish the words & actions of its members.
/johnny
Democrats are always looking for ways to cut defense spending, how about abolishing this useless set up.
Felix Navidad!
ZAMPOLIT - Political commissars who shadowed all officers in the USSR.
I’ll give Obama and the Dems credit. America has been “fundamentally changed” and I no longer recognize it.
Yes, zampolit, thanks.
Why does the army employ an eeoc officer?
...government monitoring...nothing else
what atheist douchebag is behind this
bump
Progressives want the army full of progressives, like the IRS and other agencies. What’s the worse that could happen?
It appears that bh0’s folks are firmly in control of Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute!
Camp Shelby is an Army National Guard facility in Mississippi that is a training site for Army National Guard, Regular Army, Army Reserve and other DoD organizations.
Its website: http://ms.ng.mil/aboutus/installations/shelby/Pages/default.aspx
This happened to me almost 20 years ago when I was still in the US Air Force. My commander, a female Lt Col, said I couldn’t name the squadron Christmas Party, “Christmas”, because it was discriminatory.
I consulted the Federal Register of Holidays, kept by the National Archives. Sure enough, the official name of the holiday that takes place on December 25 is indeed called Christmas! This was before the advent of the Internet, so I actually mail ordered the document.
With that in hand, I was able to allow the squadron to have a Christmas party. Even our sole Jewish airman was happy.
The Federal Register online: http://www.archives.gov/news/federal-holidays.html
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