Veterans affairs agency orders staff to report each other

[Lori Dee]

Veterans affairs agency orders staff to report each other for 'anti-Christian bias'
New taskforce demands names in rooting out 'policies, procedures ... or understandings hostile to Christian views'
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The Guardian - Léonie Chao-Fong
Tue 22 Apr 2025 18.12 EDT

New taskforce demands names in rooting out 'policies, procedures ... or understandings hostile to Christian views'

The veterans affairs department (VA) is ordering staff to report colleagues for instances of "anti-Christian bias" to a newly established taskforce, as part of Donald Trump's push to reshape government policy on religious expression.

"The VA Task Force now requests all VA employees to submit any instance of anti-Christian discrimination to Anti-ChristianBiasReporting.@va.gov," the email reads. "Submissions should include sufficient identifiers such as names, dates, and locations."

"If Trump really cared about religious freedom and ending religious persecution, he'd be addressing antisemitism in his inner circle, anti-Muslim bigotry, hate crimes against people of color and other religious minorities," the president and CEO of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Rachel Laser

Critics were quick to condemn Trump's announcement at the time as a thinly veiled attempt to privilege evangelical Christianity over other religious minorities.

"This taskforce is not a response to Christian persecution; it's an attempt to make America into an ultra-conservative Christian nationalist nation."

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[Lilis]

Theocracy maybe?

Sad....


~ Lilis 💗

[Mrs. Oliphant]

"This taskforce is not a response to Christian persecution; it's an attempt to make America into an ultra-conservative Christian nationalist nation."

I'm relieved it's only an attempt. I was almost certain we became an 'ultra-conservative Christian nationalist nation' on the Tuesday following the first Monday in November of last year.