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As President's Day 2016 draws near, reports have gone viral alleging that the San Diego city council have been warned not to drop any F-bombs -- as in the phrase "Founding Fathers."

iRumorMill.com Determination: Real

The reports are real, according to a Feb. 10, 2016 article by Fox News.

The article said, "The traditional reference to America's patriotic patriarchs is considered gender biased, and a city manual banning the term was reinforced this week with verbal orders, according to legal watchdog group, Pacific Justice Institute."

Brad Dacus, president of the Pacific Justice Institute, was one of the first to criticize the San Diego policy, “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.”

The Pacific Justice Institute also sent a letter to Mayor Kevin Faulconer demanding "that the guidelines be rescinded, citing more than 1,500 Supreme and lower court decisions that directly invoke the phrase 'Founding Fathers.'"  

Posted 02/10/16

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