If today is an average day in America, three Seventh-day Adventist Christians will be fired from their jobs for no crime other than keeping the Sabbath—that is more than a thousand a year. Many more will be harassed, demeaned, and demoted by intolerant employers who believe their role gives them the right to denigrate the religious beliefs and practices of employees.

For years we have seen this problem grow. There is hardly an Adventist church in America that doesn’t contain someone who has experienced Sabbath problems at work—and this is particularly true of young Adventists and new converts.

The Seventh-day Adventist Church is working hard for the passage of the Workplace Religious Freedom Act, a moderate piece of bipartisan legislation that requires employers to accommodate the Sabbath keeping and other religious practices of employees if the employer can do so without incurring a significant cost or inconvenience.

This bill isn’t going to pass by itself. We need every single Seventh-day Adventist in the United States to raise their voice to Congress in support. Simply visit www.religiousliberty.info—the Web page of the North American Division affiliated North American Religious Liberty Association—and you can send a letter supporting the Workplace Religious Freedom Act to your two federal senators and your federal congressman or woman in less than two minutes.

Here is a chance to stop talking about the Ten Commandments and actually do something tangible to protect faithful men and women who actually, under the grace of God, keep them!

More information is available at www.religiousliberty.info.

James D. Standish, JD, MBA, director of legislative affairs, General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists