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erronis

(19,139 posts)
Tue Apr 22, 2025, 06:49 PM Tuesday

Veterans affairs agency orders staff to report each other for 'anti-Christian bias'

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/22/veterans-affairs-anti-christian-bias
Léonie Chao-Fong

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.

VA secretary Doug Collins, in an internal email seen by the Guardian, said the department had launched a taskforce to review the Biden administration’s “treatment of Christians”.

“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.”

The email states that the department will review “all instances of anti-Christian bias” but that it is specifically seeking instances including “any informal policies, procedures, or unofficially understandings hostile to Christian views”.

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purr-rat beauty

(699 posts)
4. As A USAF Veteran
Tue Apr 22, 2025, 07:00 PM
Tuesday

I find this abhorrent in the face of the Constitution and i highly doubt there is any anti-christian bias going on, just trying to stir a pot, persecute, and eliminate in the ranks any and all who aren't christian.

It's a witch hunt

Thought the donvict hated those

erronis

(19,139 posts)
5. I think you are right. It is just another way to "stir the pot" - get Americans to fight among themselves.
Tue Apr 22, 2025, 07:14 PM
Tuesday

0rganism

(25,005 posts)
7. Since we're going in this direction, it sure would be nice to have a concise enumeration of "Christian views"
Tue Apr 22, 2025, 07:53 PM
Tuesday

After all, these matters have been points of umm... let's say... "contention" for centuries, but I'm certain anyone who implements such a policy has it all figured out. Right? And they're prepared to explain in detail to the public this grand unifying theory of theology so no one violates said policy accidentally.

erronis

(19,139 posts)
8. Just as much as the Christian monarchs/popes/inquistors did in the past.
Tue Apr 22, 2025, 08:04 PM
Tuesday

I think the underlying theology can be expressed as "It's my way or off you go."

0rganism

(25,005 posts)
9. So all in for Paula White, then?
Tue Apr 22, 2025, 08:19 PM
Tuesday

Now I'm no historian but I'm fairly sure the "right reverend" Paula White(? -- not Cain, her latest husband's surname) would have been tortured and executed for heresy and/or witchcraft in the blessed 17th century to which we apparently seek repatriation.

msfiddlestix

(8,042 posts)
10. I know I shouldn't be shocked, I'm not. But still.... effing wow. I hope the rank and file veterans rise up and fight
Tue Apr 22, 2025, 08:27 PM
Tuesday

back. Jeezus H fucking Christ.

thucythucy

(8,858 posts)
11. So they're asking that people who hate the poor,
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 08:31 AM
Yesterday

despise people who are ill or disabled, refuse to share their material possessions, worship money, promote war, and place their own well-being above all else be reported?

Just kidding, they of course mean something quite the opposite.

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