(July 29, 2025 at 6:18 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: I have a new theory:

Republicans are pro-birth so they can molest the little girls and use the boys as cannon fodder.

(July 29, 2025 at 5:27 pm)Angrboda Wrote: I don't know.  I think allowing employees free expression of religion in the workplace is a good thing.  The bad thing is there are no guardrails in place to prevent expression from blending with harassment or discrimination.

(July 29, 2025 at 1:19 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: Trump Administration Lets Federal Employees Push Religion in Workplaces

The Trump administration issued a memo Monday allowing federal employees to proselytize in the workplace, a move welcomed by many conservatives but denounced by proponents of the separation of church and state.

The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) memo "provides clear guidance to ensure federal employees may express their religious beliefs through prayer, personal items, group gatherings, and conversations without fear of discrimination or retaliation."

"Employees may engage in conversations regarding religious topics with fellow employees, including attempting to persuade others of the correctness of their own religious views, provided that such efforts are not harassing in nature," OPM said—without elaborating on what constitutes harassment.

"Employees may also 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," the memo adds.

FFRF co-president Laurie Gaylor said that "these shocking changes essentially permit workplace evangelizing, but worse still, allow supervisors to evangelize underlings and federal workers to proselytize the public they serve."

"This is the implementation of Christian nationalism in our federal government," Gaylor added.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/opm-re...-workplace

(July 29, 2025 at 6:18 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: I have a new theory:

Republicans are pro-birth so they can molest the little girls and use the boys as cannon fodder.

(July 29, 2025 at 1:19 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: Trump Administration Lets Federal Employees Push Religion in Workplaces

The Trump administration issued a memo Monday allowing federal employees to proselytize in the workplace, a move welcomed by many conservatives but denounced by proponents of the separation of church and state.

The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) memo "provides clear guidance to ensure federal employees may express their religious beliefs through prayer, personal items, group gatherings, and conversations without fear of discrimination or retaliation."

"Employees may engage in conversations regarding religious topics with fellow employees, including attempting to persuade others of the correctness of their own religious views, provided that such efforts are not harassing in nature," OPM said—without elaborating on what constitutes harassment.

"Employees may also 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," the memo adds.

FFRF co-president Laurie Gaylor said that "these shocking changes essentially permit workplace evangelizing, but worse still, allow supervisors to evangelize underlings and federal workers to proselytize the public they serve."

"This is the implementation of Christian nationalism in our federal government," Gaylor added.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/opm-re...-workplace

(July 30, 2025 at 4:22 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:

(July 29, 2025 at 6:18 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: I have a new theory:

Republicans are pro-birth so they can molest the little girls and use the boys as cannon fodder.

MAGA - Molesting And Groping Adolescents

Boru

Quote:The Online Right’s Favorite Nativist Slogan Is Gaining Traction in the Real World

It’s not a term that the average social media user has likely encountered, let alone heard in casual conversation. But among a certain cohort of young and well-connected conservatives, “heritage American” — used to describe people who trace their roots to the founding generations of the United States — is gaining traction as a kind of slogan of the new nativist right that’s coalesced behind Donald Trump and the MAGA movement.

The term is popping up with more and more frequency among the online right: “Who are Heritage Americans?” reads the headline of a recent Substack post that made the rounds on social media; “Heritage America — Who are they? Why does it matter?” was the title of a recent live-streamed discussion on X. The borders of heritage America, however, are extending beyond the conservative internet. As the Trump administration doubles down on its immigration crackdown and seeks to close long-established pathways to U.S. citizenship, the idea embedded in the slogan — that American identity is defined by ancestry rather than by adherence to universal principles — is finding real-world expression in the politics and policies of Trump’s GOP.

While the specific worldview surrounding “heritage America” may have been incubated online, it is increasingly finding its way into the policies and rhetoric of the Trump administration. In a speech at the conservative think tank the Claremont Institute in July, Vice President JD Vance urged conservatives to reject the view that America is founded exclusively on a common creed, reviving a theme from his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention last year. “America is not just an idea — we’re a particular place with a particular people and a particular set of beliefs and way of life,” said Vance, pointing to the frontier mentality that allowed “our ancestors … to tame a wild continent.” If the subtext wasn’t clear enough, he added: “That is our heritage as Americans.”

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2...e-00481724