After the University of Tennessee’s Office of Diversity released its “inclusive holiday celebrations in the workplace” tips that excluded Secret Santa, Tennessee Republican representative Micah Van Huss (R) put forth legislation to defund the University’s controversial campus group.
“The Tennessee Republican Party rejects in the strongest terms the efforts of the University of Tennessee Office of Diversity and Inclusion to eliminate Christianity from the observance of the holiday season,” the resolution said.
Earlier this year, the University of Tennessee’s Office of Diversity suggested that students and professors use gender-neutral pronouns. Huss says that’s when he began to look deeper into how this office was spending Tennessee tax payers’ money.
Huss said in a statement: (continue reading)