In a now widely reported incident, a Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute online training course was pulled last month after a reporter made an inquiry about a slide that said the Bible, the US Constitution, and the Declaration of Independence “allow sexism to continue”:

The military’s Equal Opportunity channels have had a number of high-profile missteps, with most being dismissed as “isolated” incidents of individual briefers going off-script. Given the response, it would seem Department of Defense leadership wasn’t onboard with the message of this course, either.

That’s probably a good thing, though the obvious question is how the course was produced and approved to begin with. Given the extraordinarily low number of people who took the optional online course, it’s probable that few people saw it, read it, comprehended it — or even cared.

Also at the Christian Examiner.

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