A similar thing just happened in West Virginia. This is where things are going now.
WISHTV reports:
Indiana Gov. Braun signs executive order eliminating DEI in state governmentNewly sworn-in Indiana Gov. Mike Braun (R) on Wednesday issued an executive order eliminating diversity, equity, and inclusion practices from within the state’s government.The order comes from abiding by the Equal Protection Clause under the Fourteenth Amendment and by “ensuring all Hoosiers have equality of opportunity by eliminating DEI in state government.”Instead, Braun ordered the initiative be replaced with MEI, or “merit, excellence, and innovation.”Under the order, state agencies will not:
- Support diversity, equity, and inclusion positions, departments, activities, procedures or programs if they grant preferential treatment based upon one person’s particular race, color, ethnicity, or national origin, over that of another person.
- Require any person to participate in or receive any training, instruction, procedures, or programming if they endorse preferential treatment of one person’s particular race, color, ethnicity or national origin, over that of another person.
- Require any applicant for employment to provide a statement relating to diversity, equity, and inclusion or provide any applicant for employment preferential treatment for providing such a statement, over another person.
- Mandate any person to disclose their pronouns.
Agencies will also be required to review their DEI programs, positions, activities, and departments for compliance and must “eliminate or revise” them by April 30.“The Chief Equity, Inclusion, and Opportunity Office in the Governor’s Office is hereby closed,” the order reads.The order did not clarify what “merit, excellence, and innovation” programs would include or how they would be implemented.Braun said all of the orders he signed Wednesday, including the DEI order, are meant to make state government more responsive and more cost-effective.“In my campaign, I’ve had such a breadth of support from the entire spectrum of Hoosiers that embrace that idea of freedom and opportunity,” he said.
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