The Louisiana legislature barred government employers, from the state on down, from forcing employees to lie about pronouns for people who want others to go along with their “trans” charade.
Governor Jeff Landry recently signed the bill (PDF) into law, which goes into effect on August 1, 2026. An excerpt:
An employee shall not be required, as a condition of employment, to address another employee or any other person by a name other than the person’s legal name, or a derivative thereof, or to use pronouns, salutations, titles, or honorifics inconsistent with the other employee’s or person’s sex.”
Liberty Counsel (LC) credits their client’s case against East Baton Rouge Parish Library for making such a law necessary in Louisiana.
The library fired Pastor Luke Ash, who was a library services technician, for refusing to refer to his female colleague with male pronouns. To do so would be a lie, and no government can force Christians — or any person — to speak a message they oppose.
As LC noted, the library did not offer Ash a religious accommodation to the ridiculous preferred pronoun policy.
“We commend Louisiana legislators for enacting this extra layer of protection,” said Mat Staver, LC founder and chairman. “Christian religious beliefs simply prohibit lying, even by omission. Pastor Luke Ash’s stand for biological truth helped make this new law possible. The government cannot force people to use false pronouns and violate their religious beliefs as a condition for employment.”
