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applegrove

(127,111 posts)
Mon Jul 28, 2025, 04:30 PM Monday

Trump Urges Federal Employees to Talk Religion at Work

Last edited Mon Jul 28, 2025, 07:28 PM - Edit history (3)

Trump Urges Federal Employees to Talk Religion at Work

July 28, 2025 at 3:35 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 93 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2025/07/28/trump-urges-federal-employees-to-talk-religion-at-work/


“Federal employees can display religious items at work, pray in groups while not on duty and encourage co-workers to adopt their faith, according to guidance released Monday by the Office of Personnel Management, which manages the federal civilian workforce,” the Washington Post reports.


Applegrove:

So those who resist being converted, or who have a less right wing faith, will be reported on? Later: Also will there be a 'call to prayer' throughout Washington's streets for those who practice various forms of Islam? Because that would fit in with bells ringing.

Later still: will this be an opportunity to explain to evangelicals how most of Trump's policies hurt the poor?
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Trump Urges Federal Employees to Talk Religion at Work (Original Post) applegrove Monday OP
Uh, no...you nutjob A-hole... wcmagumba Monday #1
here is the actual original article Celerity Monday #41
that is a bunch of f'n BS! IzzaNuDay Monday #2
Holy mother of Christ, he is corrupt Renew Deal Monday #3
And that would count BaronChocula Monday #52
That's right. Give me a raise Renew Deal Monday #63
You dont hand me an opportunity like that gay texan Monday #4
Eventually those who do not comply will be imprisoned Eliot Rosewater Monday #5
Gulp BoRaGard Monday #32
Like Trump would, amiright? /nt bucolic_frolic Monday #6
"Trump Urges Federal Employees to Talk Religion at Work" J_William_Ryan Monday #7
Says the sinner in search of madashelltoo Monday #8
This won't end well . . . Johonny Monday #9
Air Force jonstl08 Monday #10
Not to mention your lack of right wing religion will be noticed and recorded on the Republican database of all Americans applegrove Monday #12
atheists, agnostic, pastafarians, scientologists, satanists, you are now free to harass co workers nt msongs Monday #11
Instead of the Epstein files. GoodRaisin Monday #13
Unless you start a new religion called Epsteinism! LiberalLovinLug Monday #50
Let me guess who has never held a real job, been in the military rurallib Monday #14
Time to bring out the pentacles and prayer rugs! Vinca Monday #15
Lead the way asswipe (tRUMP). Witness to JD and Pam-o-Kristulsi about those two Corinthians! RedWhiteBlueIsRacist Monday #16
Oh just another Constitutional violation purr-rat beauty Monday #17
The law suits edhopper Monday #18
Let's lead the prayer to Allah or Muhammad and see how that goes. Norbert Monday #19
I will start speaking about the Norse Gods. milestogo Monday #20
Oh yeah Rebl2 Monday #21
Fuck trump. SamKnause Monday #22
So i could preach about usedtobedemgurl Monday #23
Thou shall not kick the proselytizer in the ass! BidenRocks Monday #24
Well, I do worship the FSM and his noodly appendages. Hope to see his image on the wall, along with the ten suggestions. wcmagumba Monday #25
Wear a colander to work, and be hugely offended if anyone laughs. Timeflyer Monday #49
So, does "Mr Two Corinthians (it's actually second Corinthians) and the one who held the bible upside down iluvtennis Monday #26
I thought people were supposed to be working. Not shooting the breeze during work hours. Irish_Dem Monday #27
LOL. According to this I can get paid for spending my entire day walking around the office trying to convert everyone Native Monday #36
Right, bring some holy water so you can baptize them too. Irish_Dem Monday #37
and always carry your rosary beads! Native Monday #40
"Dear Donald, who art in the White House or maybe Mar-a-Lago" tanyev Monday #28
Shallow be thy name 2MuchNoise Monday #43
What if my religion is head-hunting....? lastlib Monday #29
hem AllaN01Bear Monday #30
if i am a follower of satan , will that allow me to display my religious icons ,etc? AllaN01Bear Monday #31
Is there an asterisk that says, except if you're a Muslim? Native Monday #33
If I worked in such a setting, I would want to pull out prayer rugs RockCreek Monday #34
Canada if you can hear us we are waiting to be annexed. Old Terp Monday #35
Yet Trump has never prayed in his life Picaro Monday #38
The encouraging co-workers to adopt your faith... SickOfTheOnePct Monday #39
Probably a dumb question but is their a picture of "Allah" like there is of "Jesus"? walkingman Monday #42
I'm your friendly neighborhood atheist. no_hypocrisy Monday #44
So I can wear my Satanic Temple t-shirts to work? Alright! Timeflyer Monday #45
Talk religion Traildogbob Monday #46
Thought #2: You could be fired for refusing to join the office no_hypocrisy Monday #47
Voodoo Religious Practice 2na fisherman Monday #48
Get Out Your Chickens! Deep State Witch Monday #60
"!" Marcuse Monday #51
Exercising your beliefs Norrrm Monday #58
Pete Seeger/Old time religion cbabe Monday #53
I've noticed Chirstians don't like talking to me about Christianity. Gore1FL Monday #54
Talk about the two Corinthians Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Monday #55
Maybe they should watch South Park's episode from last week. BigmanPigman Monday #56
ALL FOR SHOW Jimvanhise Monday #57
How Big of a Statue Deep State Witch Monday #59
Is it permissible to 'outJesus' them? Norrrm Monday #61
Already has been a thing. Blue Full Moon Monday #62
Take a giant dildo to work. KentuckyWoman Monday #64
It was said to be the opiate of the masses -- and he is a pusher Hekate Monday #65
... Xavier Breath Monday #66

Celerity

(51,187 posts)
41. here is the actual original article
Mon Jul 28, 2025, 06:28 PM
Monday
Trump administration urges federal employees to talk religion at work

In a shift, the guidance from the Office of Personnel Management encourages religious expression among federal employees.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/07/28/federal-workers-religious-expression/

https://archive.ph/minzt



Federal employees can display religious items at work, pray in groups while not on duty and encourage co-workers to adopt their faith, according to guidance released Monday by the Office of Personnel Management, which manages the federal civilian workforce. In a memo titled “Protecting Religious Expression in the Federal Workplace,” OPM Director Scott Kupor said that the government workforce should be “a welcoming place” for employees who practice a religious faith.

“Allowing religious discrimination in the Federal workplace violates the law,” Kupor said in the memo. “It also threatens to adversely impact recruitment and retention of highly-qualified employees of faith.” Although the core of OPM’s guidance on religious expression differs little from past administrations, it “presents a substantial shift in that it encourages employees to express their religious beliefs in the workplace,” said Stefanie Camfield, associate general counsel and director of human resource services at Engage PEO.

Historically, Camfield said, employers have been advised to keep religious conversation at work to a minimum, noting that “the more religion is allowed into the workplace, the more likely it is that differences of opinion are raised.” “In the current political environment, these types of differences have a way of turning into arguments,” Camfield said. “” In some cases, it leads to outright hostility, which makes it more likely that an employee will feel singled out and discriminated against for their beliefs.”

In the memo, Kupor outlined various activities that should not warrant disciplinary action, noting that federal 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.” “Employees may also encourage their co-workers to participate in religious expressions of faith, such as prayer, to the same extent that they would be permitted to encourage co-workers participate in other personal activities,” Kupor stated in the memo.

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IzzaNuDay

(1,015 posts)
2. that is a bunch of f'n BS!
Mon Jul 28, 2025, 04:34 PM
Monday

good thing I am not working in the federal government. If some religious nut job tries to proselytize me, and I’d reply with words worthy of going to hell. But I’m an atheist, so I’m not worried!

gay texan

(3,038 posts)
4. You dont hand me an opportunity like that
Mon Jul 28, 2025, 04:38 PM
Monday

I will have a religious service for the 8-track.....

Eliot Rosewater

(33,285 posts)
5. Eventually those who do not comply will be imprisoned
Mon Jul 28, 2025, 04:40 PM
Monday

Glad to see nobody thinks I’m exaggerating anymore but you can trace these kind of comments from me back to 2016 and it turns out none of them were exaggerations.

jonstl08

(472 posts)
10. Air Force
Mon Jul 28, 2025, 04:47 PM
Monday

When I was in the Air Force in 1983 had a group of religious nut bags not like the fact I was catholic try to convert me to their version of Right Wing religion. When I politely told them I was not interested they did not take it to well. Followed me around the base and in the chow hall to preach to me that I was going to hell. One of them was a guy I worked with. Told him to have them back off and leave me alone. He told me no so I went to the squadron first sergeant who investigated. Other people in the barracks told him what was happening. First Sergeant called my coworker into the office and told him if these people did not stop harassing me he would be the one in trouble with the UCMJ. They stopped immediately and avoided me at all costs.

Moral is the military is part of the federal government. We hear all the time about christians in the military preaching to the troops illegally and feel with this new policy the religious nuts will be emboldened. It could be a career killer if you rebuff them.

applegrove

(127,111 posts)
12. Not to mention your lack of right wing religion will be noticed and recorded on the Republican database of all Americans
Mon Jul 28, 2025, 04:50 PM
Monday

And if you try to get a job with a corporation you will not get it. IMHO

msongs

(71,888 posts)
11. atheists, agnostic, pastafarians, scientologists, satanists, you are now free to harass co workers nt
Mon Jul 28, 2025, 04:48 PM
Monday

rurallib

(63,972 posts)
14. Let me guess who has never held a real job, been in the military
Mon Jul 28, 2025, 05:01 PM
Monday

and thinks religion is something to use as a control mechanism? Hint: this person is orange

Rebl2

(16,752 posts)
21. Oh yeah
Mon Jul 28, 2025, 05:34 PM
Monday

because he talks religion all the time-NOT. One of the least religious presidents we have had.

SamKnause

(14,368 posts)
22. Fuck trump.
Mon Jul 28, 2025, 05:50 PM
Monday

Fuck all the people licking his ass.

Fuck all the double cultist that are trump humpers and Christian Nationalists.

Fuck religious discussions in the work place.

BidenRocks

(1,888 posts)
24. Thou shall not kick the proselytizer in the ass!
Mon Jul 28, 2025, 05:54 PM
Monday

I would give them one warning before I got biblical on their ass!

Please turn the other cheek so I can smack that one too!

You can tell chump never was in the workplace. Or grocery store, gas station,...

wcmagumba

(4,479 posts)
25. Well, I do worship the FSM and his noodly appendages. Hope to see his image on the wall, along with the ten suggestions.
Mon Jul 28, 2025, 05:55 PM
Monday

Timeflyer

(3,298 posts)
49. Wear a colander to work, and be hugely offended if anyone laughs.
Mon Jul 28, 2025, 06:41 PM
Monday

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Or dress like a pirate. Watch the movie "I, Pastafarian," 2019, for an in-depth look at how the noodly appendages of the Flying Spaghetti Monster have touched people throughout the world.

iluvtennis

(21,318 posts)
26. So, does "Mr Two Corinthians (it's actually second Corinthians) and the one who held the bible upside down
Mon Jul 28, 2025, 05:55 PM
Monday

at a photo op in DC during his first admin talk religion at work?? I think not as he is a KNOW NOTHING about Christianity or any religion for that matter.



Native

(7,200 posts)
36. LOL. According to this I can get paid for spending my entire day walking around the office trying to convert everyone
Mon Jul 28, 2025, 06:12 PM
Monday

Irish_Dem

(72,750 posts)
37. Right, bring some holy water so you can baptize them too.
Mon Jul 28, 2025, 06:15 PM
Monday

Sing some hymns, sprinkle the holy water, say some prayers.
Trump will give you a bonus per soul saved.

tanyev

(47,296 posts)
28. "Dear Donald, who art in the White House or maybe Mar-a-Lago"
Mon Jul 28, 2025, 05:59 PM
Monday

I think that’s what he calls religion.

lastlib

(26,388 posts)
29. What if my religion is head-hunting....?
Mon Jul 28, 2025, 06:02 PM
Monday

I FIRMLY believe that head-hunting is THE ONLY path to salvation. I urge allyou non-believers to impale your neighbor's head on a sharp stick, and feel the peace of salvation come over you! Then you will be delivered to your salvation!


( .... JIC it's necessary.....)

AllaN01Bear

(26,715 posts)
30. hem
Mon Jul 28, 2025, 06:02 PM
Monday

my late mom had a priciple att work who kept trying prostlize her and others . shed remind him that she had a faith and what he was doing , voiolated the constitution and they had a memorandum of understanding. again . hem

AllaN01Bear

(26,715 posts)
31. if i am a follower of satan , will that allow me to display my religious icons ,etc?
Mon Jul 28, 2025, 06:04 PM
Monday

being devils advocate here .

RockCreek

(1,060 posts)
34. If I worked in such a setting, I would want to pull out prayer rugs
Mon Jul 28, 2025, 06:08 PM
Monday

And set calls to prayer loudly on all of my work-located electronic devices.

Picaro

(2,130 posts)
38. Yet Trump has never prayed in his life
Mon Jul 28, 2025, 06:15 PM
Monday

Pandering much?

Would love to see someone set up a Santeria shrine in their office. Or a shrine to Satan. Or a shrine for the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

I’m sure the intent is to promote Christianity, but when you promote religion in the workplace you have to be prepared for people of all religions to pray and proselytize.

SickOfTheOnePct

(8,237 posts)
39. The encouraging co-workers to adopt your faith...
Mon Jul 28, 2025, 06:17 PM
Monday

...is where it goes completely over the line. The rest of it has been permitted ever since I've worked for the federal government.

walkingman

(9,627 posts)
42. Probably a dumb question but is their a picture of "Allah" like there is of "Jesus"?
Mon Jul 28, 2025, 06:34 PM
Monday

Without freedom from religion, there is no freedom of religion...

Traildogbob

(11,582 posts)
46. Talk religion
Mon Jul 28, 2025, 06:38 PM
Monday

Ya mean like raping 13 year olds and forcing them to give birth. That kind of Moses Mike acceptance as Jeeebus behavior?

no_hypocrisy

(52,420 posts)
47. Thought #2: You could be fired for refusing to join the office
Mon Jul 28, 2025, 06:39 PM
Monday

daily prayer meeting (likely fundamentalist Protestant Christian).

2na fisherman

(43 posts)
48. Voodoo Religious Practice
Mon Jul 28, 2025, 06:40 PM
Monday

So what if someone sets up a shrine in their workspace with a Voodoo doll likeness of Trump with pins stuck in it and a noose around its neck and asks others to do the same? Just sayin'. Many Vodouisants around the world have most likely already done this.

Deep State Witch

(12,054 posts)
60. Get Out Your Chickens!
Mon Jul 28, 2025, 08:07 PM
Monday

I would already make jokes about keeping chicken bones around to wave around my computer so that it would work.

BigmanPigman

(53,408 posts)
56. Maybe they should watch South Park's episode from last week.
Mon Jul 28, 2025, 07:21 PM
Monday

They want "religion" then give it to them in spades.

Same goes with Trickle Down theory for the economy. A LOT of people still buy into this BS...meaning they are getting rich off of it and duping the zillions of moronic Americans who can't think for themselves, do research, etc. Yet, these victims are always the first to bitch and cry over their own poor choices which contribute to their own demise. Americans are dumber than dirt. Social media and Fux Ruse won.

Fucking religious hypocrites. Half of the serial killers caught and convicted were very involved with religious activities while they murdered tons of innocent people.

Sure, go to church and on the way there kill someone and on the way home from church rape someone. Such moral behavior. Especially the "we love everybody equally" pedo priests. This is why people are finally waking up and saying "screw religion, it is BS". They have become the minority. The "moral minority".

Fuck you RAYGUN!! "Moral majority" my ass! IMMORAL MAJORITY is 100% accurate.

Raygun destroyed the US for 45 years and counting....

Jimvanhise

(471 posts)
57. ALL FOR SHOW
Mon Jul 28, 2025, 07:23 PM
Monday

Trump is the least religious president in many years. The only time he has ever been seen near a church was when he stood outside one to create a stupid photo op. He claimed to have known people who died on 9/11 but was never seen at any of the funerals. This is the man Trump's cronies keep covering for.

Deep State Witch

(12,054 posts)
59. How Big of a Statue
Mon Jul 28, 2025, 08:05 PM
Monday

Of Baphomet can I have in my cubicle? Or maybe the Goddess and God? I'll keep it SFW.

Seriously. I was never out of the broom closet when I was working. I told people that I trusted, because I had been burned early on in my career, during the later Ray-gun years. But if they had pushed Christianity in my face like this, I'd have gone full Witch-Bitch on them. Of course, I'd have probably been DOGEd already.

Norrrm

(2,558 posts)
61. Is it permissible to 'outJesus' them?
Mon Jul 28, 2025, 08:12 PM
Monday

Proselytize (to?) them to convert to extreme religious views?

Make Westboro Baptist church look like slackers.
Emphasize put-to-death punishments as quoted in the Bible.
Emphasize divorce/remarriage/adultery consequences. That will hit home to many.
........... Jesus talked in detail about that.
Go into great detail on some of the seamier Bible topics.

Let them start off first.
That way, you are participating in their conversation, not harassing them.

Offer/insist that you help them in their mission to convert others.

Blue Full Moon

(2,520 posts)
62. Already has been a thing.
Mon Jul 28, 2025, 08:21 PM
Monday

I was put in for the job by the state representative. He told me once I started working there that I would come around and be a republican.
They would not hire you unless you went to church. So I went to the church du jour. As soon as I got my clearance and job. Told the church I couldn't go since my job schedule conflicted. I was put in for the job by the state representative.

KentuckyWoman

(7,167 posts)
64. Take a giant dildo to work.
Mon Jul 28, 2025, 09:12 PM
Monday

Open the morning huddle by praying to it.

When they complain just tell them you support the President's request to spread your religion at work.

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