OK. Here comes a RANT!
(Don't say I didn't warn you).
Today, I was at work, training and whatnot. My supervisor (Shari) is a very nice lady- very business for the most part, but nice. She is slowly starting to be herself wround me and not "Rule-following Anal Supervisor Shari"- by that I mean, she's relaxing, and making jokes.
So anyway- while I was doing pretend transactions on the computer, she was proof-reading the company newsletter. We were laughing at some of the mistakes in it (especially the ones where people repeated the same ones, like- "She done real well." ) Anyway- she gets to another page, rolls her eyes, and says I'm not even going to read this.
It was a FULL page diatribe about "This is a Christian country, if you don't like it get out... We speak ENGLISH- if you don't want to learn it, get out... This country was founded on Christian principles... yada yada yada"
To be honest, I think someone copied and pasted a chain e-mail that sounded like a country singer (who shall remain unnamed) wrote it. It was very "We love God and Christianity and English speaking people."
It was AWFUL. HORRIBLE. I couldn't believe someone actually submitted this for the freakin company newsletter. I was immediately up in arms- for 1: that does NOT represent MY views. 2- It was nothing short of propaganda. 3- It had ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with the bank, our community, goals, employees, business, etc. And yet- here it was in the employee newsletter.
Normally I would raise hell.
But- Shari (although she felt it was in extremely poor taste) told me to bite my tongue. I've only been there 4 days- and she said something to the effect of "they don't like rebels."

Another guy saw it before it went onto our intranet, and he

too, but again- is not willing to say anything.
I feel like this is WRONG beyond belief, but even my mom (who'd normally tell me to give'em hell) told me that since I've only been there 4 days, I should probably zip it this time.
I am just outraged. I understand that going in on Day 5 of a job and raising a stink is probably a bad idea- but I feel like I'm ignoring my principles. Not to mention, if I wrote some big long editorial about how we all should support Planned Parenthood (which I DO), it would NEVER make it in.
I am just disgusted and feel stuck and annoyed and pissed with no way to fix it.