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WASHINGTON (AP) The Department of Veterans Affairs is establishing a task force to investigate employee reports of alleged anti-Christian bias among their colleagues, part of a broader effort by the Trump administration to infuse its agenda with religious purpose and champion the rights of Christians.
VA Secretary Doug Collins this week sent a rare department-wide email requesting employees to report any allegations of anti-Christian discrimination among their colleagues. The email, which was reviewed by The Associated Press, asks for names, dates, and locations of any alleged incidents to be reported to an internal email address. The Guardian first reported the email.
President Donald Trump has launched a government-wide task force aimed at rooting out any bias against Christians, who are by far the largest faith group in the United States and hold significant political power. The two-year task force, chaired by Attorney General Pam Bondi and composed of Cabinet and other government representatives, is supposed to identify any unlawful anti-Christian actions under the Biden administration, change any objectionable policies and recommend steps to rectify any past failures.
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The email from Collins instructs employees to report any incidents of anti-Christian discrimination including adverse responses to requests for religious exemption under the previous vaccine mandates, reprimands for displaying Christian imagery or symbols, unofficial understandings hostile to Christian views and retaliation of threats for abstaining from procedure like abortions or hormone therapy for people who are transgender. Other federal agencies, including the Department of State, are setting up similar internal reporting hotlines.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-veterans-affairs-christian-bias-f7750d2a357f02b250516e12d3eaff0c
Get the fuck out of here Collins. No one has had to have an abortion or gender reassignment against their will. Idiot!
BOSSHOG
(44,738 posts)Seeing the poor Christians in the cotton fields slaving away, some barely clothed. The sun baking them, the hail beating their bodies as they strive to make the unattainable quotas which when unattained will result in punishment. Oh the horrors that Christians face in the cotton fields of north Kansas in April. And no doubt the incredible suffering is happening nationwide. What can we do?
Cha
(320,574 posts)Permanut
(8,570 posts)This Navy vet claims the right to call bullshit.
The Department of Veterans Affairs should champion the rights of VETERANS, no matter their religious affiliation.
mainer
(12,579 posts)unofficial understandings hostile to Christian views would include a belief in evolution, wouldnt it?
Are they going to report agnostics and atheists?
cbabe
(6,814 posts)housing to the poor and health insurance to the sick. Also adulterers and bullies. Very anti Christians infesting the t administration.
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