Posted on 12/20/2007 7:49:10 AM PST by yoe
Southwestern Oklahoma State University in Weatherford has issued a disturbing directive forbidding employees to say or write the word "Christmas." This directive was given by the University upon legal advice of the (Oklahoma Attorney General, W.A. Drew Edmondson). Liberty Counsel sent a demand letter to the University following a complaint from a University affiliate.
The controversy began when the University's Director of Human Resources recently visited various departments and said that decorations featuring the word "Christmas" in any areas of the University must be immediately removed.
He also instructed the employees not so say "Christmas" while on the job. As a result the employees cannot respond "Merry Christmas" to other employees or visitors to the University. Read our News Release for more details.
(The University web site) says "Happy Holidays" although it is adorned with red and green and decorated Christmas trees.
We need your help today!
Tell the University's president to help save Christmas from the censors! He needs to hear from thousands of Americans who can point out the absurdity of banning the word "Christmas." After all, Christmas is a state and federal legal holiday!
Contact information for University President John M. Hays: Telephone (580) 774-3766, Fax (580) 774-7101, email president@swosu.edu
Please be respectful when you call or email.
Call this University President - Freep the heck out of him with MERRY CHRISTMAS!!
Madness.
I don’t attend Southwestern Oklahoma State University, therefore, it is none of my business. Let the students and faculty make the call.
No....but your tax money supports it, even if you don’t live in THAT state.
“I don’t attend Southwestern Oklahoma State University, therefore, it is none of my business. Let the students and faculty make the call.”
If it receives state fund then its important to everyone in the state. If it receives federal funds then its important to everyone in America.
Allowing the demonization of Christianity will only be the start.
I’d do it anyway, just to put a First Ammendment case on the docket.
Just send a “Merry Christams” to their website. Hope they get a million more!!
From the College CALENDAR
Monday, December 24, 2007
Start Day Campus Closed - Holiday (Multi-Day Event)
Tuesday, December 25, 2007
End Day Campus Closed - Holiday (Multi-Day Event)
Wednesday, December 26, 2007
Start Day Campus Closed (Multi-Day Event)
Thursday, December 27, 2007
All Day Campus Closed (Multi-Day Event)
Friday, December 28, 2007
End Day Campus Closed (Multi-Day Event)
Saturday, December 29, 2007
SOOOOO...WHAT Holiday are they CLOSED FOR???????
Emailed him. I was nice - even wished him a Merry Christmas!
Bet they didn’t ban Kwanza, Hannukah, Ramadan etc. You know, instead of being exclusive why not be inclusive and allow all?
I guess they forgot that the word Holiday comes from combing the words HOLY DAY into one work. Idiots. I wonder if a holiday labeled "KARL MARX CELEBRATION OF SOCIALISTIC LUNACY" would pass their political correctness?
SInce Christmas is a legal federal holiday, I don’t really see how there can be any legal liability in wishing someone a Merry Christmas, quite apart from the PC lunacy that this policy raises from a cultural perspective.
“We cannot and will not sit idly by as the world changes in ways that can negatively impact our country for generations.”
— Tim Murphy
Send Dennis Rodman back to his alma mater to set things right...
There are millions of little leftists all around the USA, working at all kinds of jobs. Each one knows his task: to implement some part of marxist philosophy whenever an opportunity arises.
This pathetic university administrator is just a useful idiot faithfully carrying out his role as a little leftist.
Send him a Christmas card.
If I was a student there, I would buy a bunch of address labels, big ones, print them all up with ‘Christmas’ on it in as big a font as I could, and quietly go around sticking them all over the place in protest.
That would be Southeastern Oklahoma State.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.