Trump Administration Allows Federal Workers to Display Bibles, Crucifixes, Other Religious Items

Calvin Freiburger : Jul 31, 2025
LifeSiteNews.com

"Federal workforce should be a welcoming place for Federal employees who practice a religious faith. Allowing religious discrimination in the Federal workplace violates the law. It also threatens to adversely impact recruitment and retention of highly-qualified employees of faith."

(Washington, DC) — [LifeSiteNews.com] Federal employees must be allowed to display their faith at work, according to a new directive issued Monday by the Trump administration's Office of Personnel Management (OPM). (Image: Pexels)

Fox News obtained a copy of the memo, which declares that the "Federal workforce should be a welcoming place for Federal employees who practice a religious faith. Allowing religious discrimination in the Federal workplace violates the law. It also threatens to adversely impact recruitment and retention of highly qualified employees of faith."

"Employees must be allowed to engage in private religious expression in work areas to the same extent that they may engage in nonreligious private expression," OPM says. "Agencies may, however, reasonably regulate the time, place and manner of all employee speech, provided such regulations do not discriminate based on content or viewpoint (including religious viewpoints). Agencies may require that employees perform official work while on duty, as opposed to engaging in personal religious observances."

Examples of protected expression include but are not limited to "Bibles, artwork, jewelry, posters displaying religious messages, and other indicia of religion (such as crosses, crucifixes and mezuzahs) on their desks, on their person, and in their assigned workspaces"; and "individual or communal religious expressions."

Federal workers must also be allowed to engage in "conversations regarding religious topics with fellow employees... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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