The Trump administration on Monday told federal workers they can talk about religion at work, including by trying to “persuade others of the correctness of their own religious views.”
In a memo to the heads of federal agencies, the Office of Personnel Management — the government’s human resources arm — said public employees have the right to religious expression in the workplace, citing civil rights law and the First Amendment. That includes the right to discuss religion, engage in “communal religious expressions” and display items such as bibles, crucifixes and mezuzahs on their desks, the memo states.
“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,” it states. “However, if the non-adherent requests such attempts to stop, the employee should honor the request.”
But if the person sees your rejection as a sign of disloyalty to the MAGA cause you can be fired. Just saying.
This is the sort of person we must allow to “persuade” others that they need to re-think their religious beliefs. He is one of may of his ilk in the religion persuasion business:
Jason Yates was, most recently, the CEO of My Faith Votes, a non-profit group “focused on empowering people of faith to vote in every election.” That organization, while non-partisan, pushed a conservative agenda, claiming that “secular progressives have actively sought to implement a counterfeit worldview at every level of government.” It blamed those secular progressives for “devastating moral decay” and “the erosion of traditional family values.” Hell, Mike Huckabee was the group’s “Honorary National Chairman” before he became Donald Trump’s Ambassador to Israel.
Last July, Yates even wrote an essay for the conservative Washington Times about how children were “being programmed to believe sexually deviant behavior.” He based this on a recent visit to the University of Minnesota for his son’s robotics competition:
We were immediately confronted with posters encouraging children to embrace strange new sexual horizons. They were handing out literature with an agenda to teach him to doubt the link between his mind and body — his self, and his self-image. They offered Levi a rainbow button to wear, encouraging him to declare his gender preferences. Wasn’t this supposed to be a robotics competition?
So… he saw pride merch on a college campus and jumped to the conclusion that The Gays were trying to recruit his son? (These guys will never beat the “weird” charges.)
Anyway, whenever Christians pretend their religion and morality are linked together and that anyone outside the middle of that Venn diagram is inherently immoral, you know how the story turns out.
Last November, Yates was charged with a slew of vile crimes involving children.
According to MinistryWatch:
[Yates] has been charged with eight felony counts of possession of child pornography.
Each of the eight charges, filed in McLeod County, MN, carry a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison and a fine of $10,000. They note that Yates has a prior conviction and is a registered predatory offender.
That prior conviction, also related to child sexual abuse material (CSAM), had been expunged for reasons that are not apparent.
Court documents revealed a devastating story about how all this was discovered.
It should be quite something to have to listen to a bunch of Christian nationalist pedophiles in the Trump government proselytize in the workplace.
There are so, so many of these wingnut freaks that I think it’s fair to assume they all are until proven otherwise.