Many of us must be wondering about the toxic nature of the DEI prohibition imposed by our authoritarian leaders on our most highly valued community organizations, schools, libraries and many other institutions.

Beginning with religious and spiritual communities, diversity, equality and inclusion have been essential guideposts for belief and action for millennia. We can ask when our holy texts themselves will be required to submit to official editors before they can be read and taught.

Have the new reviewers never realized that the word “dei” is also a Latin reference to God? Such as Imago Dei, “image of God,” and Opus Dei, “work of God.” Are these to be deleted?

We can ask if our would-be cultural managers have decided to invade our hearts and souls with their revisions of the words we use for communication, thinking and praying. All of their rationalizations and double speak cannot prevent our perceiving the racist bigotry of their attacks.

Rev. Ralph Moore
Rockland