Saving Christmas at Southwestern Oklahoma State University. And it doesn't even need saving!
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When Erick offered me the opportunity to receive his Red State Action Alerts, I knew it was going to be entertaining.
Today, I received this breathless prose:
Dear RedState Reader,
Drew Edmondson is the Oklahoma Attorney General. Recently he rounded up conservative activists and threw them in jail for circulating petitions to get conservatives on the ballot.
Now, however, Oklahoma Atty Gen. Drew Edmondson has done something even nuttier. He has issued an advisory opinion from the Attorney General's Office directing universities and public employees in Oklahoma to refrain from using or writing the word "Christmas."
Mark Tapscott with the Washington Examiner has the details. Mark notes, "Edmondson issued an advisory opinion to officials at Southwestern Oklahoma State University in Weatherford advising them that the word "Christmas" should not be spoken by any employee of the state school, not written in any official holiday decorations."
Attorney General Edmondson can be reached at 405-521-3921. Please call and wish him a Merry Christmas and ask why he banned Christmas.
(I'm only sorry that I can't reproduce here the ridiculous formatting, with the faux highlighting and stuff.)
After glancing at the story he provided, I went to SWOSU's own web site to look for the effects of this encroachment on human speech. Surely, if simply speaking the word "Christmas" is prohibited, the web site will likewise have been scrubbed of that magical word.
No such luck.
The SWOSU's web site shows about the number of references to Christmas that one would expect to find at a small university's web site.
There are a couple involving prohibition, like this one about expenditures, but that is to be expected as a matter of policy at a state-funded school
But if Drew Edmondson is trying to kill Christmas at SWOSU, he isn't doing a very effective job of it.
At best, Erick has been conned, and he's spreading the lie someone told him. But there is the distinct possibility that he knows he's lying.
After all, he also lied about the "circulating petitions to get conservatives on the ballot" (they were out-of-staters illegally collecting signatures for a TABOR referendum) so I wouldn't put anything past him.