WASHINGTON, July 28 (Reuters) - Federal employees may discuss and promote their religious beliefs in the workplace, the Trump administration said on Monday, citing religious freedoms protected by the U.S. Constitution.
Agency employees may seek to "persuade others of the correctness of their own religious views" in the office, wrote Scott Kupor, director of the Office of Personnel Management, the U.S. government's human resources agency.
Supervisors can attempt to recruit their employees to their religion, so long as the efforts aren’t “harassing in nature,” according to Kupor's statement. Agencies can't discipline their employees for declining to talk to their coworkers about their religious views.
The statement represents the latest effort of the six-month-old Republican Trump administration to expand the role of religion in the federal workplace.
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What is truly revolting is what Trump appears to believe what Christianity is all about.
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ReplyDeleteMet. Anthony of Sourozh: “The Church cannot belong to any party, but at the same time it is neither non-partisan nor post-partisan. It should be the voice of conscience, one enlightened by the Divine light. In the ideal state, the Church should be able to say to any party or political current: this is worthy of man and God, and this is unworthy of man and God. Of course, this could be done from two positions: from a position of power and from a position of supreme powerlessness.
ReplyDeleteIt seems to me, and I am deeply convinced of this, that the Church should never speak from a position of power. It should not be one power among others operating in one state or another; it should be, if you will, just as powerless as God, Who does not use force; Who only beckons us, opening up the beauty and truth of things without imposing them; Who is like our conscience, telling us the truth while leaving us free either to listen to truth and beauty or to reject them. It seems to me that the Church should be precisely like that; if the Church should gain the position of a powerful organization, one with the ability to coerce or direct events, then there will always be the risk that it will want to wield power; but as soon as the Church begins to wield power, it will lose its deepest essence”.
Religious people always think they want religion in public spaces, until they run into the wrong brand of their or others religions, putting pressure on them in that public space. What evangelical wants Catholicism as the primary voice of Christianity in the public space? What nominal Christian wants any traditionalist, maximalist Christian controlling that public space? And we all know too well, the arguments that wouldn’t sue if a general orthodox Christian voice controlled that public space, cf. internal fights within GOARCH, between the OCA and ROCOR, the interminable ethnonationalisms.
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