The following comes from an Apr. 29 update from the Pacific Justice Institute.
A hospital that stirred nationwide outrage for ordering a military veteran not to say “God Bless America” in his e-mails has now implemented further restrictions.
Pacific Justice Institute represents SFC Boots Hawks (U.S. Army, Ret.), who served twenty years in the military and now works in the Quality Management office at Dameron Hospital in Stockton, where he has been recognized with such distinctions as Employee of the Year. In November, 2013, SFC Hawks was told by a supervisor to remove the phrase “God Bless America” as one of three quotes in his e-mail signature block. A supervisor was concerned that someone might be offended by the phrase and suggested it was equivalent to an employee saying, “Death to Christians.”
SFC Hawks complied with the directive but was placed on two days’ leave for “insubordination” when he said he wanted to seek legal counsel. As a result, SFC Hawks spent Veterans’ Day suspended from his job and worried about his future, instead of being honored for his distinguished military service.
After receiving a letter from Pacific Justice attorney Matthew McReynolds, the hospital withdrew the charge of insubordination and changed the two days’ leave to paid leave. The hospital nevertheless continued to insist that SFC Hawks not say, “God Bless America.”
After Hawks’ attorneys obtained and served the hospital with right-to-sue notices from the federal and state agencies that oversee workplace discrimination complaints, the hospital informed employees in March that it had instituted a new policy that a standardized signature block must be used by all employees, without deviation.
The president of Pacific Justice Institute, Brad Dacus, had the following comment on the new developments: “It is astounding that Dameron Hospital believes it should respond to charges of illegal discrimination and censorship with even more censorship….”
Anyone who may wish to politely express their concerns to Dameron Hospital about its silencing of “God Bless America” and unwillingness to apologize to SFC Hawks may do so via the following: info@dameronhospital.org or Dameron Hospital’s “Contact Us” Page.
Watch video of Boots Hawks talking about his ordeal.
Why is this a surprise in what is becoming Pagan Amerika? And, why aren’t the supervisors that caused this senseless expenditure of time, money, and emotional burden to a fine veteran, held to account (yes, as in being fired, or at least severly reprimanded and personally fined)? The latter result is needed because these administrators clearly were trying to push a political agenda: a True Believer would have fought back against the lawyer’s letter, rather than merely rolling over whenever directly challenged. The attitude here is much like what appears to be the case in the White House in relation to the truly awful Benghazi tragedy: everything is political: you always are willing to trade people (and their very lives) for power, and for votes (so you can stay in power). The question, asked of that awful woman Hillary Clinton, “what difference does it make” needs to be answered, and loudly.
GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!
My, my. People are so delicate in their ease to be offended. If one person is offended whole laws and policies are changed. The Constitution only protects freedom of speech from government intrusion and companies can make policies as they wish. However, the deeper issue in this is that the minority is attacking everything that our country believes in.
GOD BLESS AMERICA, God bless SFC Boots Hawks and God bless all our military who fight so that we all have the freedom to say GOD BLESS AMERICA!
Well said Peggy!
I sent the hospital an email regarding this evil situation. You know, Irving Berlin, a Jewish immigrant who loved America, contributed many wonderful popular songs to our Nation, including “White Christmas,” “Easter Parade,” and “God Bless America!” These beloved songs gave millions of people so much hope, joy, and inspiration! The demented, Godless, lawless, immature, selfish, immoral post-1960s hippies of the Death Culture have nearly destroyed this country! Their immature, demented, diabolic, and misguided leaders want to destroy all religion, faith in God, religious teachings of goodness, virtue, good character, living by a good moral conscience, and developing strength and perseverance of character, to deal with difficulties and challenges successfully, as our forefathers did. The very foundations of our Nation lie correctly in the Biblical Judaeo-Christian religious heritage! In times of great struggles, it is a wonderful gift, to hear traditional, inspirational songs such as “God Bless America!” It is so uplifting, bringing HOPE and JOY to hospital patients and their families, including wounded veterans who selflessly served their country– to receive beautiful, inspirational messages by a caring, retired veteran, such as “God Bless America!” Yes– with people like him, we truly still do have a great and blessed country, with HOPE for the future! It must bring tremendous JOY and COMFORT to our servicemen stationed in the war-torn Middle East, to hear songs and receive messages of HOPE like this!
Leftist hate the 10 Commandments! They hate the 4 page US Constitution! But notice how they sure do love the ever expanding hundreds of thousands of draconian rules, (both written and unwritten), we “modern” Americans are now forced to live by! Isn’t Utopia wonderful!!!!? :(
This is a replay of the 1960s and the Hippies! Anything to do with God they hate and, of course, they do NOT like the Commandments because of the sexual restrictions. And our foolish generations that have followed have not stood up and “fought” back to keep our nation which WAS founded on Christian principles — whether the “God hater-commie/libs” want to believe it or not.