Evangelicals Begin to Play Office Politics

Re “Faithful Are Carving Niche in the Workplace,” May 15: Corporate America is making a huge mistake by making concessions to evangelicals who, like all of their fundamentalist soul mates (including the Taliban in Afghanistan and the Saudi Wahhabi Muslims who perpetrated 9/11) will stop at nothing to spread their intolerant vision of how society should function. Anyone who thinks these fanatics will be content with the current workplace accommodations is mistaken. They don’t want to be part of the mainstream; they want to take over. They need to be sent back to the fringes where they can wait for the Rapture and leave the rest of us alone.

Tama Winograd

Studio City

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How well The Times understands irony. On the May 15 front page is an article on religion in the workplace next to an article on how corporate America is reneging on its pension obligations. So America’s employees are getting worried and banding together to pray for their futures without pensions, eh? All you’d need to complete the thought was a follow-up on the new bankruptcy law that prevents individuals from running away from their obligations so easily.

Jim Hayes

Fallbrook