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Army bans "Christmas"

jigs

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Army: Don’t say Christmas
By Todd Starnes
Published December 23, 2013FoxNews.com
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.”

“Our equal opportunity representative stopped the briefing and told us that we can’t say Christmas,” the soldier told me. “Almost the entire room blew up. Everybody was frustrated. The equal opportunity rep told our commander that not everyone celebrates Christmas and we couldn’t say Christmas celebration. It had to be holiday celebration.”

The soldier said there was a brief, but heated discussion about political correctness. At one point, the equal opportunity representative tried to deflect the criticism by pointing out it was the Army’s rules – not hers.

“She said an individual can say Christmas, but as an organization in the Army you can’t say Christmas,” the soldier told me.

So what does the Army have to say about the DEOMI officer’s edict?

“There is no policy at the 158th Infantry Brigade, First Army Division East or First Army that forbids using the word ‘Christmas’,” Public Affairs Chief Amanda Glenn told me.

She confirmed that there was a discussion in the meeting about the football tournament. She said it was meant to be a team building event and it had no tie to a specific religious event or holiday celebration.

“The Equal Opportunity advisor simply stated that it would be more appropriate to call it a holiday football event,” she said.

But Attorney Berry tells me that it was made very clear to the soldiers in the room that the name change was not merely a suggestion.

“She stated that the word Christmas had to be replaced with the word holiday,” Berry said.

The soldier who contacted me said it was just another instance of the military trying to curtail public expressions of the Christian faith.

“Between the Air Force and the Army – it’s like they don’t like Christian values, they don’t like the word Christ or Christmas,” the soldier said. “They don’t like you talking about it.”

Berry said it’s a shame that the Army has implemented word police.

“Are they going to have the ‘Merry Christmas’ police going around issuing citations to an soldier who slips and says the word?” he wondered. “They’re treating Christmas like it’s pornography. As a matter of fact, the Army actually treats pornography better than it does Christmas.”

It’s not the first time Equal Opportunity officers have caused trouble at Camp Shelby. Earlier this year, I reported exclusively about a briefing at Camp Shelby that labeled the American Family Association as a domestic hate group.

After my story was published, the Secretary of the Army ordered military leaders to halt all briefings on extremist organizations that labeled Evangelical Christian ministries as domestic hate groups.
 

Martin Jr.

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I wonder, has the country gone completly mad?

I remember when I was in the army December 1963 in Ft. Gordon, GA that the post commander, General Salet, asked for some of us to go down town to Augusta to his Christmas Play. A bus took us there and the play was good. Nobody complained.

Next Christmas, on a remote missile site in western Korea, Col. Hufnagel had a large cross put up in the hill with bright lights on it. It could be seen for miles. Nobody complained, maybe the North Koreans could see it and didn't like it, I don't know.

Are we playing into the hands of Satan? It seems so.
 

Tam

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Did you guys see the ORielly piece where the military base requested the Nativity pieces to be taken out of the mess hall. I've seen Bill mad but not enough to cut the guys mic and afterwords call the guy a weasel. :(


I don't understand why people are willing to offend millions to keep two or three un-named non-believers from being offended. IF THEY DON"T LIKE CHRISTMAS, CHRIST, AND THE CROSS then go back to their own countries and if they were born in North American then find a friggin country that supports their NON BELIEVING CRAP AND MOVE THERE. :mad:
 
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