A handful of federal employees have sued the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Secretary Brooke Rollins.
According toFox News, the plaintiffs accused Rollins of “Christian proselytizing” after she sent USDA employees an Easter email message filled with Christian language and imagery.
“Happy Easter,” the email read in part. “He is Risen indeed! Today we celebrate the greatest story ever told, the foundation of our faith, and the abiding hope of all mankind.”
The employees’ complaint state that the email also included the words “Christ is Risen,” along with a drawing of an empty tomb, according to Fox.
Seven USDA employees, joined by the National Federation of Federal Employees, brought the complaint May 13, Fox reported.
According to Fox, the plaintiffs accused Rollins 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,” all of which, they claimed, amounted to “coercion, religious sermonizing and denominational preference” and made them feel “excluded and unwelcome.”
By “increasingly proselytizing communications,” the plaintiffs meant a pair of 2025 holiday messages.
“May God continue to protect the United States of America and may His favor shine over all her land,” Rollins allegedly wrote, for instance, in a Fourth of July email, Fox reported.
Then, later in the year, the complaint states, a Christmas video from Rollins referred toJesusas “our Savior,” according to Fox.
According to Fox, a USDA representative would not discuss the lawsuit, but did offer one comment.
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