07/28/2025
I'm speechless...as they SHOULD be!
BREAKING: Donald Trump takes a horrifying step towards Christian Nationalism by releasing a memo encouraging federal workers to convince their co-workers that their religious beliefs are "correct" and that they should "re-think" their own beliefs.
And it gets so, so much worse...
The memo states that no disciplinary or even basic corrective action can be taken against federal employees who display Bibles, religious art, jewelry or even aggressive posters with religious messages inside the office. It specifically cites "crosses, crosses, crucifixes and mezuzah.” As one example of allowed behavior, it cites a doctor praying over a patient at a Veterans Affairs hospital.
It states that employees should also be permitted to engage in individual or even communal religious expressions, which suggests that far-right Christians could soon be congregating inside federal buildings for ostentatious prayer circles.
The memo says that employees may now engage others in religious conversations "including attempting to persuade others of the correctness of their own religious views, provided that such efforts are not harassing in nature."
"During a break, an employee may engage another in polite discussion of why his faith is correct and why the non-adherent should re-think his religious beliefs. However, if the nonadherent requests such attempts to stop, the employee should honor the request,” the memo states. “An employee may invite another to worship at her church despite being belonging to a different faith.”
Federal workers will now be allowed to "encourage their coworkers to participate in religious expressions of faith, such as prayer, to the same extent that they would be permitted to encourage coworkers participate in other personal activities."
Office of Personnel Management Director Scott Kupor sent the theocratic memo to the heads of different departments and agencies with the direction to allow religious expression "to the greatest extent possible unless such expression would impose an undue hardship on business operations."
In what constitutes a direct assault on the sacrosanct separation of Church and State, the OPEM worked with the White House Faith Office to pen the memo, meaning that Trump's deranged religious advisors now have a direct hand in federal policy.
"The Federal workforce should be a welcoming place for Federal employees who practice a religious faith," the memo states. "Allowing religious discrimination in the Federal workplace violates the law. It also threatens to adversely impact recruitment and retention of highly-qualified employees of faith."
Of course, federal employment should also be a welcoming place for people who practice no religion at all. One also imagines that a Muslim who attempted to convert his co-workers would discover that this memo doesn't apply to them. This policy is designed to drive all nonbelievers out of the federal government and further entrench far-right Christian ideology.
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