China is well known for dictating what people think. Or at least what they say the think. A statement of a wrong belief can bring on trouble quickly.
Now Joe Biden’s administration is preparing to take a major step in the same direction, with a plan by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to dictate how transgenderism and abortion are addressed in the workplace.
Through its rule-making process, the EEOC is preparing to identify the simple “voicing of opposition to abortion or contraception as policy matters” as “workplace harassment.”
Or “failing to refer to an employee or a co-worker by their preferred pronouns.”
A report in Decision Magazine explains how Biden’s strategy is to force all workplaces to become “woke,” or adopt the leftist social ideologies that Biden’s administration chooses to endorse.
The report explains that conservative and faith-based groups are alarmed at the prospect Biden’s plans will violate their free speech rights, and offend their business management plans.
Public comments on the idea are being accepted by the EEOC through Nov. 1.
According to the Family Research Council, the report said, the plan “would undermine sex-segregated spaces and stifle free speech in the workplace on topics such as abortion and gender identity ideology by expanding the definition of what constitutes ‘workplace harassment.’ Under the guidance, members of the workforce who are pro-life or who do not hold to the tenets of gender identity ideology could be found guilty of harassment for expressing or living in accordance with their views.”
Tyler O’Neil, of the Daily Signal at the Heritage Foundation, said the result would be that Biden would “thousands of small business owners out of business because they refuse to kowtow to the administration’s new speech codes.”
The FRC said Biden’s plan also would make it “harassment” for a company to maintain “separate bathrooms, locker rooms, and showers for men and women on the basis of sex rather than ‘gender identity’”
The organization continued, “The government should not be able to force speech by requiring preferred pronoun usage.
“Creating sex-segregated bathrooms, locker rooms, and showers for those of the opposite sex is a commonsense safety and privacy measure meant to protect people, especially women and children. It is not harassment. And the ability to express one’s opinions, even on hot-button topics such as abortion or contraception, is a constitutionally protected right that extends to the workplace.”
This article was originally published by the WND News Center.
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