DOJ Employees told to Affirm Homosexuality

8 June 2013

Workers at the United States Department of Justice were sent an email telling them that silence about LGBT issues was no longer enough, and that employees must go out of their way to make homosexuals feel comfortable.

The email, which originated from a group within the Department that calls itself ‘DOJ Pride’, has prompted widespread fears of religious intolerance and viewpoint discrimination at the highest levels of American government.

The anonymous whistle-blower from the Department told the Liberty Counsel law-firm that DOJ employees were emailed the brochure, “LGBT Inclusion at Work: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Managers.” The brochure was created by DOJ Pride and urges employees to stop using “gender-specific terms like ‘husband’ and ‘wife’”

The brochure also tells DOJ employees to attend LGBT events sponsored by DOJ Pride or by the Department itself, and encourages them to post DOJ Pride stickers in their office.

The most controversial part of the brochure states that “Silence seems like disapproval. There’s still an atmosphere of LGBT issues not being appropriate for the workplace (particularly for transgender people), or that people who bring it up are trying to rock the boat.”

Mat Staver, founder of Liberty Counsel, commented, “Christians are frightened and terrified of losing their jobs. You just can’t keep you head down and do your job. Now you have to become an advocate for the LGBT agenda – and if you don’t – the DOJ will consider that to be intolerant. Under this directive, one cannot be a Christian and a manager at the Department of Justice. How does one who believes in the teachings of Jesus Christ and the Bible display ‘gay pride’ stickers?”

Robin Phillips, spokesman for Christian Voice and author of Saints and Scoundrels, commented that the DOP Proud brochure illustrated the general trajectory of the LGBT movement’s changing goals. “Once the LGBT lobby was content to use the spurious notion of ‘tolerance’ to merely neutralize opposition,” he said. “But recently they have launched a much more ambitious goal, which is the forced affirmation of certain viewpoints and lifestyle choices.”