Episode #146
146. Feds Have More Rights Than They Think | September Secrist | Own Your Freedom
Most federal employees think they have fewer religious freedom rights at work than everyone else. It's the other way around — and almost nobody has been trained on it. September Secrist , executive director of the Interagency Christian Fellowship and a federal leader of more than twenty years, discusses what the law actually permits inside a federal agency. The First Amendment restrains government — and for two million career civil servants, government is the employer. The standard is equal access: if your agency lets people run a book club, hold a potluck, or talk about baseball, it cannot shut out employees of faith. Those rights aren't new. They were spelled out decades ago, and then nobody taught anyone what they meant. Chapters: 02:25 — Why Federal Employees Have More Protection, Not Less 05:51 — The Training Gap Nobody Has Filled 12:48 — Win People Over, Don't Hit Them With the Law 14:11 — Bureaucratic Guerrilla Warfare 15:57 — Where Our Rights Come From 18:23 — What Interagency Christian Fellowship Does 21:39 — Government Quick Wins, Slow Machine 27:00 — The October 3 Convocation The Interagency Christian Fellowship Convocation is October 3 at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC — 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., $45 including museum admission, breakfast, and lunch, with speakers from the EEOC and the Department of Justice. Register here: https://www.interagencychristianfellowship.org/events/fy27-convocation Own Your Freedom—It’s That Simple ___________________________________________________________________ Listen to Own Your Freedom on Substack & all other platforms: https://taplink.cc/fedsforfreedom Visit our Website: FedsForFreedom.org Follow us on Instagram / X / Facebook : @feds4freedomusa
