Last Thursday, the DOJ-supervised Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias published a report detailing how the Biden Administration’s prosecutions, policies, and practices demonstrated anti-Christian bias throughout the federal government, in accordance with Executive Order 14202.
The Acting Attorney General serves as Chair of the Task Force, and the Justice Department coordinated this significant interagency effort.
The report was updated yesterday.
Every Christian should be informed regarding these findings.
Every Leftist Christian should reconsider their support and their vote for those in government who are trying to punish Christians.
Be informed, not misled.
The Report begins: "No American should live in fear that the federal government will punish them for their faith,” said Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, Chair of the Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias. “As our report lays out, the Biden Administration’s actions devastated the lives of many Christian Americans. That devastation ended with President Trump. The Department of Justice will continue to expose bad actors who targeted Christians and work tirelessly to restore religious liberty for all Americans of faith.”
The Report examines how the Biden Administration pushed its radical policy agenda, even when its actions infringed on Christian beliefs, free exercise, and on matters of deep personal importance to nearly every American: life, family, marriage, self-identity, education, medical decisions, and more. To support these findings, the Report contains over 1100 footnotes and over 300 pages of exhibits.
The Justice Department met with and received information from over 100 stakeholders and victims in its review of the impacts of the Biden Administration’s anti-Christian bias.
The Report touches on a broad array of federal policies and programs, including conscience rights, the Johnson Amendment, fines against Christian universities, girls’ sports, vaccine mandates, and the exclusion of Christians from public programs, among many others. The Task Force also highlights related findings at the state and local level and in the private sector. Among the many findings, the Justice Department discovered:
- President Biden pushed policies to eliminate statutory protections for religious Americans that interfered with his policy goals. Although he failed to change federal law, under his direction, federal agencies used policy and regulatory means to accomplish the same goals.
- The Biden Justice Department aggressively opposed concerned parents through the Garland School Board Memo and diligently attempted to use its enforcement authority against parents who defended their children’s safety at local school board meetings.
- The Biden Justice Department immediately mandated the adoption of gender ideology throughout the federal government far beyond the Supreme Court’s ruling in Bostock v. Clayton County.
-The day after Biden was sworn into office, career employees at the Justice Department urged for the reversal of a Trump Justice Department memo on Bostock that directed the department to “respect its employees’ right to express traditional views" regarding marriage and gender identity.
-Career employees called the memo “an affront to the dignity of our transgender employees,” and called for the memo to be rescinded under Biden's Executive Order on gender ideology.
-The Biden Justice Department also considered requests for religious exemptions related to gender ideology as harmful conduct to be regulated and consistently pushed its incorrect Bostock interpretation in amicus briefs, even though federal courts repeatedly rejected it.
- The Biden Justice Department advised White House and senior leadership in a phone call that federal employees’ religious objections to the Covid vaccines were “insincere” or “not religious.”
- The Civil Rights Division under President Biden sidelined Christians in favor of preferred constituencies. It published materials suggesting that Christians could not be victims of religious discrimination, only other faith groups.
While this report details the egregious actions of the Biden Administration against Christians, it also demonstrates how the Trump Administration is restoring the rights of Christians—and all Americans—to practice their faith without fear of retribution.
- The Trump Justice Department is protecting parental rights by rescinding the Garland Memo and taking legal actions to protect students, including a lawsuit to stop the Loudoun County School District from unlawfully forcing gender ideology on students who have sincerely held religious beliefs on marriage and human sexuality.
- The Trump Justice Department has restored law and order by rescinding the Biden Bostock memo. As a result, all people of faith may once again freely exercise their faith.
- The Trump Justice Department is protecting religious liberty in the federal workplace by issuing an Office of Legal Counsel opinion affirming protections for federal employees, including accommodation requests.
- The Trump Justice Department is ending the weaponization of the FACE Act by protecting houses of worship from violence and threats under the FACE Act.
- The Trump Justice Department is protecting religious congregations from discrimination under RLUIPA.
- The Civil Rights Division has filed statements of interest supporting faith communities in RLUIPA cases across the country.
The Report concludes with this:
"The Department of Justice is committed to religious liberty for all and will continue to support President Trump’s mandate to eradicate anti-Christian bias throughout the federal government."
Takeaway
Fox News notes that "The investigation was a direct result of President Donald Trump’s executive order, 'Eradicating Anti-Christian Bias,' which was designed to 'immediately halt all forms of anti-Christian targeting and discrimination within the federal government, including at the DOJ."
Fox says, "It is the policy of the United States, and the purpose of this order, to protect the religious freedoms of Americans and end the anti-Christian weaponization of government," the executive order stated. "The Founders established a Nation in which people were free to practice their faith without fear of discrimination or retaliation by their government."
Persecution of Christians is seen all over the world.
Why the hatred of biblical Christians?
The secular answer goes like this:
"Christians are persecuted globally—in over 166 countries—primarily due to authoritarian regimes fearing loss of control, rising ethno-religious nationalism, religious extremism, and cultural hostility."
"Christians are often targeted because their faith demands loyalty to God over the state, or they are viewed as a minority threatening the dominant religious culture, particularly in parts of Asia, Africa, and the Middle East."
Key drivers of this persecution include:
- Authoritarianism: Regimes in countries like North Korea, China, and Eritrea view Christians as threats to state ideology and often punish them with surveillance and imprisonment.
- Religious Extremism: Militant groups (e.g., in Nigeria, Syria, and Iraq) actively target Christians through violent attacks, forced conversions, and destruction of churches.
- Ethno-Religious Nationalism: In some areas, an extreme push for a single religious identity forces Christians to face persecution and discrimination for not conforming to the majority, often seen in India and Pakistan."
Thank God for all President Trump is doing on behalf of our religious freedom.
Here's what the Bible says about the persecution of Christians:
- Because of Christ's Name: "Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake." — Matthew 24:9
- For Righteousness' Sake: "Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven." — Matthew 5:10
- Because of Following Christ (Not Belonging to the World): "If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you... If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you." — John 15:19-20
- Because of Living a Godly Life: "Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution." — 2 Timothy 3:12
- For the Sake of the Gospel: "For my sake of the gospel's..." — Mark 10:29
Be Informed. Be Discerning. Be Vigilant. Be Faithful. Be Fearless. Be Prayerful.