April 10 (UPI) -- Employees at the Department of Agriculture filed a complaint about an Easter email sent by Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins they said was an outright religious message.
The email, which Rollins sent to about 100,000 employees of the department on Easter Sunday, called the day "the foundation of our faith" as it is marked in Christian faiths as the day that Jesus Christ was resurrected.
Ethan Roberts, a USDA employee and head of a federal employee union local, filed a complaint with the Office of Special Counsel because the "pro-Christianity sermon" violated the establishment clause of the First Amendment, CNN and Scripps News reported.
"From the foot of the Cross on Good Friday to the stone rolled away from the now empty tomb, sin has been destroyed," the news organizations reported the email as saying.
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