San Diego backs off ban of 'gender-biased' term 'Founding Fathers'

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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/02/10/city-workers-in-san-diego-barred-from-uttering-biased-term-founding-fathers.html?intcmp=hpbt3

San Diego officials have walked back a warning to city workers ahead of President's Day not to drop any F-bombs -- as in the phrase "Founding Fathers."

    "We cannot allow this type of censorship and PC insanity to destroy our free speech.”

    - Brad Dacus, Pacific Justice Institute

The traditional reference to America's patriotic patriarchs was an example of "gender biased" language in a city manual, and the admonition not to use it was reinforced this week with verbal orders, according to legal watchdog group, Pacific Justice Institute.

“At a time set aside to honor American icons to whom we owe our constitutional freedoms, it is offensive and indefensible that the City of San Diego is directing employees not to even mention the Founding Fathers,” Brad Dacus, president of the Pacific Justice Institute, said in a statement provided to FoxNews.com.

The warning against referring to Washington, Jefferson, Adams and company as "Founding Fathers" first appeared in a section of a city-issued manual titled, “Bias-Free Language.”