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Southwestern Oklahoma State University Bans The Word “Christmas” (Stupid Lawyer Alert!)
Liberty Counsel ^ | December 20, 2007 | Staff

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.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Oklahoma
KEYWORDS: antichristmas; christmas; highereducation; leftismoncampus; speechcodes; waronchristmas
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Political Correctness is as imtimadating as it is WRONG!...and this Lawyer is WRONG! Fire the Socialist nit!

Call this University President - Freep the heck out of him with MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

1 posted on 12/20/2007 7:49:14 AM PST by yoe
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To: yoe

Madness.


2 posted on 12/20/2007 7:53:02 AM PST by MaestroLC ("Let him who wants peace prepare for war."--Vegetius, A.D. Fourth Century)
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To: yoe

I don’t attend Southwestern Oklahoma State University, therefore, it is none of my business. Let the students and faculty make the call.


3 posted on 12/20/2007 7:53:58 AM PST by T.Smith
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No....but your tax money supports it, even if you don’t live in THAT state.


4 posted on 12/20/2007 7:55:41 AM PST by goodnesswins (Being Challenged Builds Character! Being Coddled Destroys Character!)
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To: T.Smith

“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.


5 posted on 12/20/2007 7:56:05 AM PST by driftdiver
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To: yoe

I’d do it anyway, just to put a First Ammendment case on the docket.


6 posted on 12/20/2007 7:56:46 AM PST by GingisK
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To: driftdiver

Just send a “Merry Christams” to their website. Hope they get a million more!!


7 posted on 12/20/2007 7:57:34 AM PST by Sacajaweau ("The Cracker" will be renamed "The Crapper")
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To: yoe

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???????


8 posted on 12/20/2007 7:57:46 AM PST by goodnesswins (Being Challenged Builds Character! Being Coddled Destroys Character!)
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To: yoe

Emailed him. I was nice - even wished him a Merry Christmas!


9 posted on 12/20/2007 7:58:47 AM PST by jagusafr ("Bugs, Mr. Rico! Zillions of 'em!" - Robert Heinlein)
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To: yoe

Bet they didn’t ban Kwanza, Hannukah, Ramadan etc. You know, instead of being exclusive why not be inclusive and allow all?


10 posted on 12/20/2007 8:03:43 AM PST by vigilence
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To: goodnesswins
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???????

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?

11 posted on 12/20/2007 8:06:20 AM PST by cpdiii
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Oklahoma has always tried to ‘join’ the rest of the crowd. These libs can celebrate ramadan in downtown NY city. But in Podunk Oklahoma you can’t say MERRY CHRISTMAS?!?!? Someone should sue that lawyer for not letting the Christians express their freedom of religion. Now thats unconstitutional.
12 posted on 12/20/2007 8:10:55 AM PST by Scrappy81
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To: yoe

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.


13 posted on 12/20/2007 8:12:18 AM PST by Maceman
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“We cannot and will not sit idly by as the world changes in ways that can negatively impact our country for generations.”
— Tim Murphy


14 posted on 12/20/2007 8:14:13 AM PST by the_devils_advocate_666
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To: yoe

Send Dennis Rodman back to his alma mater to set things right...


15 posted on 12/20/2007 8:19:02 AM PST by BlabItGrabIt (Crude Oil Doubling Prosperous Housing Market Tanking = DIMS)
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To: yoe
Ah...the American University...where the First Amendment reigns supreme and where tolerance is built on a foundation of courage. NOT!
16 posted on 12/20/2007 8:32:05 AM PST by mort56
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To: yoe

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.


18 posted on 12/20/2007 10:36:09 AM PST by Leftism is Mentally Deranged
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To: yoe

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.


19 posted on 12/20/2007 11:00:03 AM PST by Grig
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To: BlabItGrabIt

That would be Southeastern Oklahoma State.


20 posted on 12/20/2007 11:17:08 AM PST by ontap (Just another backstabbing conservative)
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