The Trump administration has ordered State Department employees to report on any instances of coworkers displaying “anti-Christian bias”
The directive is part of the State Department's effort to implement a sweeping new executive order on supporting employees of Christian faith working in the federal government, reported POLITICO.
The department, according to a copy of an internal cable
obtained by POLITICO, will work with an administration-wide task force to
collect information “involving anti-religious bias during the last presidential
administration” and will collect examples of anti-Christian bias through
anonymous employee report forms.
We would do well at times like these to remember Sir Winston Churchill's words to the English people during the Second World War, "You see these dictators . . . They're afraid of words and thought . . . A state of society where men may not speak their mind . . . where a businessman or small shopkeeper ruins his competitor by telling tales about his private opinion. Such a state of society cannot long endure . . ."
The cable was sent out to embassies around the world under
Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s name. The instructions also were released in a
department-wide notice.
The document says the task force, which was established by
the executive order, will meet around April 22 to discuss its initial findings.
The cable encourages State Department employees to report on
one another through a tip form that can be anonymous. “Reports should be as
detailed as possible, including names, dates, locations (e.g. post or domestic
office where the incident occurred,” the cable reads.
Some State Department officials reacted to the cable with
shock and alarm, saying that even if well-intentioned, it is based on the
flawed premise that the department harbors anti-Christian bias to begin with,
and warning it could create a culture of fear as the administration pushes
employees to report on one another.
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