Climate activist Tim DeChristopher banned from work involving “social justice”
The strange story of Tim DeChristopher continues. After a 15 month stint in federal prison for disrupting an auction on oil and gas leases on public lands, he's out looking for a job. DeChristopher landed a job at a First Unitarian Church - briefly. The Federal Bureau of Prisons thought otherwise.
From the Deseret News: DeChristopher had been offered a job with the church’s social justice ministry, which would include working with cases of race discrimination, sex discrimination or other injustices that fall contrary to Unitarian beliefs.
“The Bureau of Prisons official who interviewed Tim indicated he would not be allowed to work at the Unitarian church because it involved social justice and that was what part of what his crime was,” [DeChristopher's attorney Patrick] Shea said.
Ken Sanders, proprietor of a downtown rare books store, instead offered DeChristopher a job as a clerk. That employment has been deemed “safe,” Shea confirmed.
He wasn’t looking for a job in auctioning, oil leasing or environmental activism - things actually connected to his so-called crime. So he's not allowed to do anything that might be seen as acting against injustice. Right? Acting against injustice is why he went to prison, after all.
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