I saw that Rollins did this unconstitutional action the other day but it was sort of like Just Another Day of this corrupt administration spitting on America. I mean, this is AMERICA, which includes people of ALL or NO Religions and you have to wonder why Rolllins thought sending an email like this, and others, were okay.
In emulation of the White House, faith offices have been spreading across government agencies like kudzu, there are worship services & prayer meetings, & proselytizing is officially encouraged — but only for the particular stunted, twisted version of Christianity espoused by the clowns governing us
— Paul Graf (@paulginva.bsky.social) April 20, 2026 at 1:52 PM
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But TODAY I see that the federal workers are suing Rollins (who is of Glen Rose) .
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins violated the US Constitution when she sent her workforce a series of proselytizing Christian messages, a new lawsuit alleges.
— Bloomberg Law (@bloomberglaw.com) May 13, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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US Department of Agriculture employees and the union representing the agency’s workers sued Rollins Wednesday in the US District Court for the Northern District of California, accusing her of engaging in an escalating pattern of sectarian sermonizing that reached a crescendo on the Easter holiday.
“Today we celebrate the greatest story ever told, the foundation of our faith, and the abiding hope of all mankind,” Rollins said in her April 5 email addressed to all USDA employees. “From the foot of the Cross on Good Friday to the stone rolled away from the now empty tomb, sin has been destroyed. Jesus has been raised from the dead.”
The workers and the National Federation of Federal Employees alleged that Rollin’s sermonizing violates the Constitution and the Administrative Procedure Act, and are seeking an order declaring the proselytizing messages illegal and blocking further communications of that type.
PDF of the lawsuit =Here’s part READ THE WHOLE THING
. “If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high
or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of
opinion.” W. Va. State Bd. of Educ. v. Barnette, 319 U.S. 624, 642 (1943).
- Yet during her approximately fifteen months at the helm of USDA, Secretary Rollins
has done just that. She has adopted a practice of sending increasingly proselytizing communications
to the entire USDA workforce, promoting her own preferred brand of Christian beliefs and theology
to the captive audience of employees that report to her, directly or indirectly. - The Secretary’s practice reached a crescendo with her April 5, 2026 Easter email, in
which she heralded “the greatest story ever told, the foundation of our faith, and the abiding hope of
all mankind” (emphasis added). The Secretary extolled “the foot of the Cross on Good Friday,” “sin”
being “destroyed,” “Hell” having “t[aken] a body, and discovered God,” and Jesus being “raised from
the dead.” She described her USDA subordinates as being “like the very first disciples to encounter
our risen Lord . . . almost two thousand years ago.” - This the Establishment Clause does not countenance.
- Our nation’s Founders—having learned from the harmful effects of past religious
conflicts—adopted the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to safeguard against
government promoting any favored religion or imposing its preferred religious practice on its citizens
to protect religious freedom for all.
Secretary Rollins’s practice and policy of subjecting agency employees to
proselytizing messages conveys the expectation that USDA employees share in the Secretary’s
religious beliefs, even when doing so would betray an employee’s own beliefs. It is exactly the sort
of government-sponsored religious coercion, religious sermonizing, and denominational preference
that the Establishment Clause prohibits.
- Plaintiffs—a group of multifaith and nonreligious USDA employees, and the National
Federation of Federal Employees, a national labor union representing more than 19,000 USDA
employees with diverse religious beliefs—are subject to the effects of that coercion, religious
sermonizing, and denominational preference. Individual Plaintiffs and NFFE members feel that the
Secretary is pressuring them to share in her religious beliefs. They feel excluded and unwelcome, and
they fear the negative consequences of not sharing the Secretary’s religion or expressing their own
different beliefs in the workplace.
