A department at the University of Minnesota issued guidelines to employees that said displaying “religious iconography” like Christmas trees and dreidels was inappropriate.

University leadership said they had nothing to do with it and said it came from someone within the College of Food, Agricultural, and Natural Resources Sciences without the university’s backing.

The guidelines said employees should “recognize holidays in ways that are respectful of the diversity in our community” and thus avoid Christmas trees, dreidels, bells, doves, gifts, and anything green or red.

U of M insisted this was “the actions of a single employee, whose attempt at a diversity training session was, to be blunt, ill advised… [and] does not constitute a policy on the part of the university:”

“We do not have such a policy, would never implement such a policy, and any representation otherwise is incorrect. Again, the University of Minnesota does not have a Religious and Diversity Holiday policy and has no intention of introducing such a policy.”

But that didn’t stop the school from getting nailed for continuing the War on Christmas. Montse Alvarado, the executive director of Becket, a religious liberty law firm, said, “It makes little sense to celebrate religious diversity by banning any sense of actual holiday celebration.”

“And what do they have against color schemes, are we living in communist Cuba?” he added.

Because of the ban on holiday spirit, Becket awarded the University of Minnesota its annual Ebenezer Award.

Congrats, totalitarians!

H/T Washington Times