And before the pitchforks come out, I am an observant Christian (raised Catholic and since received into the Episcopal Church).

I have written about my useless House rep, Riley Moore, a really stupid person whose grasp of Christianity is limited to posting about Jesus on Sundays and using prisoners as photo op backgrounds.

He loves to post about how Christians are being persecuted all around the word. You would think he was in prison himself for his cringe religious posts with how aggrieved he is.

Unfortunately though, he’s not alone. The GOP collectively has a huge chip on its shoulder because the majority of Americans refuse to adopt their hateful, corrosive theology. For most of them their faith is something to display on Sundays with saccharine images of Jesus or Bible quotes imposed on a scenic landscape. And I also realize it’s all they can do because if they engage with the actual teachings of Jesus they lose every time. You can’t quote Jesus and vote to take SNAP funding from hungry children, after all.

But one place we were all free from their nonsense was when you were dealing with federal agencies and/or employees as the Establishment Clause afforded all of us some space. Well, that’s over now:

Federal workers can hold prayer circles with members of the public and tell colleagues to rethink their religious beliefs, according to new guidance the Trump administration released on Monday. 

Civil servants can seek to “persuade others of the correctness of their own religious views,” the Office of Personnel Management said in the memorandum to federal agencies, adding employees must ensure their efforts are “not harassing in nature.” OPM issued the guidance to restore constitutional freedoms and enable feds to practice their religious practices without fear of retaliation, the agency said. 

Great.

As an example of the new policy, OPM said that during a break one employee can engage another “in polite discussion of why his faith is correct and why the non-adherent should rethink his religious beliefs.” The employee should stop if the “nonadherent” colleague asks him to, according to the guidance. 

The guidance is not entirely a departure from existing federal policy. The Labor Department has for at least several years maintained guidance that suggests “employees who seek to proselytize in the workplace should cease doing so with respect to any individual who indicates that the communications are unwelcome.”

The new OPM policy creates new venues for religious expression, however. It notes that supervisors can post invitations to employees to join his church for Easter on an agency bulletin board. Rangers in the National Park Service leading a public tour can join the group in prayer, OPM said, and a Veterans Affairs Department doctor may pray over a patient. 

Of course there is zero chance this will be abused, right?

It’s especially scary because back in February President I Was Epstein’s BFF created the Task Force To Eliminate Anti-Christian Bias.

     Section 1.  Purpose and Policy.  It is the policy of the United States, and the purpose of this order, to protect the religious freedoms of Americans and end the anti-Christian weaponization of government.  The Founders established a Nation in which people were free to practice their faith without fear of discrimination or retaliation by their government. 

So if you tell your right wing Christian coworker to fuck off after they tell you you’re going to hell for not believing what they believe, or if you decide you don’t want to attend Easter service at your supervisor’s church, you might find yourself under the scrutiny of that witch hunting committee. Or what about someone who tries to tell a right wing Christian that their beliefs go against what Jesus actually taught? Awesome.

Jesus would be so proud.

I’ll leave you with this: