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Southwestern Oklahoma State University Bans the Word 'Christmas'
Christian Newswire ^ | December 20, 2007

Posted on 12/20/2007 5:29:16 PM PST by Clintonfatigued

Weatherford, OK – Southwestern Oklahoma State University (SWOSU), has issued a disturbing policy which requires all employees to refrain from using the word "Christmas" in oral or written form. 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 SWOSU following a complaint from a university affiliate.

John Misak, the Director of Human Resources, recently visited various university departments and employee groups and informed everyone that any decorations featuring the word "Christmas" in any work or public areas of the university must be immediately removed. He also instructed everyone to discontinue the use of the term "Christmas" in their speech while on the job. This censorship specifically includes exchanging greetings of "Merry Christmas" among employees or with nonemployees, whether initiated by a nonuniversity employee or not. Christmas remains a legal holiday for state employees, including those at SWOSU. The directive does not include any other legal holidays such as Thanksgiving or New Year’s.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Oklahoma
KEYWORDS: academia; antichristmas; christmas; culturewar; highereducation; islamofascism; moralabsolutes; politicalcorrectness; publikskoolz; speechcodes; waronchristmas; waronchristmas2007
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To: ohioman
On the state capital grounds there were displayed all of the flags that have flown over Oklahoma. About ten years ago the libs/Democrats/NAACP/idiots clamored to have it removed because it offended some diverse individuals. Funny they didn’t worry about the Spanish flag that enslaved Native Americans at will.
61 posted on 12/21/2007 7:11:28 AM PST by vetvetdoug
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To: vetvetdoug

Thanks for the info. You are right about the hypocrisy of flying the Spanish flag and not the Rebvel Flag.

The British explorers were mellow pikers compared to the Spanish.


62 posted on 12/21/2007 7:53:46 AM PST by ohioman
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To: CaptRon

Greenville, NC. About 110 miles north of me!

;)


63 posted on 12/21/2007 9:21:19 AM PST by Bat_Chemist (The devil has already outsmarted every "Bright".)
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To: Chuck54; All

website issues confusing statement here:
http://www.swosu.edu/news/releases/2007/2007-12-20c.asp


64 posted on 12/21/2007 9:21:29 AM PST by GOPPachyderm
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To: Clintonfatigued

Could someone post a working link to this “College’s” E-Mail adress?


65 posted on 12/21/2007 9:39:59 AM PST by BnBlFlag (Deo Vindice/Semper Fidelis "Ya gotta saddle up your boys; Ya gotta draw a hard line")
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To: kittymyrib

Good for him!


66 posted on 12/21/2007 1:28:44 PM PST by BwanaNdege (For those who have fought for it, Freedom bears a savor the protected will never know. Lima 3/26 RVN)
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To: Clintonfatigued

According to the web site for SWOSU, this story is completly false. Southwestern Oklahoma State University has not banned the use of the word Christmas.


67 posted on 12/21/2007 4:24:02 PM PST by ops33 (Retired USAF Senior Master Sergeant)
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To: ops33

It sounded like a pretty backhanded denial to me. Sounds more like they admitted it had happened, but that their intent was “misinterpreted,” and they were only talking about “official” expressions of Christmas.


68 posted on 12/21/2007 6:31:55 PM PST by kaehurowing
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To: ops33
According to the web site for SWOSU, this story is completly false. Southwestern Oklahoma State University has not banned the use of the word Christmas.

No, it is not "completely false". That is what the college first tried to claim. But then the Liberty Counsel started naming specific people involved.

The college released a second statement which did acknowledge that things were said which lead some people to believe that Christmas was in fact banned.

The university does not have a policy that bans the word ‘Christmas’ or Christmas decorations. However, some supervisors or department leaders within the university who meant well may have suggested to employees that caution should be taken with respect to Christmas decorations. One thing led to another and the result was that some mistakenly assumed that Christmas decorations were being prohibited.

69 posted on 12/21/2007 10:21:39 PM PST by knuthom
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