The Washington Times reports that U.S. Department of Agriculture officials are moving to push their gay-sensitivity training program -- which equates believing marriage to only be between one man and one woman with sexism or racism -- into the training of all federal employees, according to an internal newsletter.
If accepted by President Obama's Office of Personnel Management (OPM), sensitivity training with rhetoric condemning those who believe in "Heterosexism" will be the norm for all federal agency training programs including those in the Department of Defense and Pentagon.
The USDA program defines "heterosexism" as an "'ism' like sexism or racisim, where one is considered better than others."
Supporters have called the USDA training "groundbreaking" while critics feel "heterosexists" serving our country at home and abroad should not have their government compare them to sexists or racists.
“This would drive out thousands of experienced troops, starting with chaplains and people of faith who do not support LGBT ideology and activism,” Elaine Donnelly of the Center for Military Readiness told the Times.
OPM, which oversees all federal employee policies, has applauded Agriculture Secretary and former Iowa Governor Thomas J. Vilsack (D) for launching his Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) Special Emphasis Program at the USDA.
"OPM has called our LGBT work ‘groundbreaking’ and expressed an interest in using it as a model for other federal agencies," read the internal newsletter titled My USDA: A Progress Report for Employees on USDA's Cultural Transformation.
OPM Director of Diversity and Inclusion Veronica Villalobos said "USDA is one of the many agencies we are currently working closely with, and while OPM continues to encourage this type of training, the effort has not gone governmentwide."
Yet.
