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DOJ Task Force: Anti-Christian Bias Was Obvious and Widespread Under Biden

&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">The Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias was created by President Donald Trump to &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;identify&comma; terminate&comma; and rectify” unlawful discrimination against Christians in the federal government&period; It is chaired by Attorney General Pam Bondi&period; The group held its first meeting in April 2025 and published an initial assessment on September 5&comma; 2025&comma; with a final report due by February 2026&period; The report promises that &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;the federal government will never again be permitted to turn its power against people of faith&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Members conducted preliminary reviews across major departments&comma; looking for patterns in rules&comma; enforcement&comma; communications&comma; hiring&comma; discipline&comma; social media&comma; and funding&period; Their mandate was plain&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Any unlawful and improper conduct&comma; policies&comma; or practices that target Christians are identified&comma; terminated&comma; and rectified&period;” Investigators compared how agencies treated Christian requests and observances to how they treated secular or non-Christian ones&comma; then documented repeat outcomes across offices&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">The memo says the Biden administration showed a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;consistent and systemic pattern of discrimination” and &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;weaponized the full weight of the federal government against Christians&period;” It adds&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The days of anti-Christian bias in the federal government are over&period; Faith is not a liability in America&comma; it is a liberty&period;” White House spokeswoman Taylor Rogers put it this way&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Joe Biden weaponized the full weight of the federal government against Christians and trampled on their fundamental First Amendment rights&period; Unlike Joe Biden&comma; President Trump is protecting Christians&comma; not punishing them&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<hr class&equals;"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity"&sol;>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h4 class&equals;"wp-block-heading">Incidents the task force says prove the pattern<&sol;h4>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<ol class&equals;"wp-block-list">&NewLine;<li>Department of Defense&comma; EEOC&comma; and Labor religious exemptions<br>The task force says the Department of Defense&comma; the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission&comma; and the Department of Labor &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;deprioritized&comma; mishandled&comma; or denied requests for religious exemptions to the Biden administration’s COVID-19 mandate&period;” According to the report&comma; Christians who raised sincere objections faced slow processes and unclear standards&period; Results looked the same across multiple agencies&comma; which investigators treat as a coordinated posture rather than isolated missteps&period; The cumulative effect&comma; the task force argues&comma; was to corner Christian service members and employees into compliance or risk discipline&comma; while agencies failed to show the neutral&comma; individualized judgment that religious liberty requires&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<li>Record fines against Christian universities<br>The Department of Education &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;attempted to impose record-breaking fines” on two of the nation’s largest Christian universities&comma; including Liberty University at 14 million dollars and Grand Canyon University at 37&period;7 million dollars&period; The task force frames the size and publicity of these penalties as evidence of hostility to Christian higher education&period; It says the approach chilled other faith-based schools by signaling that Christian institutions would be policed more aggressively&period; In the report’s words&comma; these actions showed &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;the damage that can be done when religious liberty is not protected and preserved for all Americans&period;”<&sol;li>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<li>DHS and a detainee directive that omitted Christians<br>Investigators found that within the Department of Homeland Security&comma; Customs and Border Protection distributed a directive for detainees that &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;omitted Christian perspectives” while expressly noting accommodations for Islam&comma; Rastafarianism&comma; and sects of Judaism&period; The task force calls the omission revealing because specific non-Christian accommodations were listed side by side&period; It says the document treated Christian observances as an afterthought&comma; which contradicts the equal footing the government owes to every faith&period; In a report centered on patterns&comma; this was offered as a straightforward example of how Christianity could be singled out by silence&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<li>DOJ’s posture and the use of the FACE Act<br>The report says the Justice Department failed to &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;address and prosecute violations of the law where anti-Christian bias was demonstrated by the persecutors&period;” Instead&comma; it &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;pursued novel theories of prosecution against those speaking or demonstrating based upon their Christian faith&period;” About two dozen people were arrested or convicted under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act for praying and demonstrating outside abortion facilities&period; The task force adds&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;the same DOJ refused to apply the FACE Act to protect places of worship and crisis pregnancy centers&period;” To the task force&comma; this looks like viewpoint-based enforcement that punishes public Christian witness while overlooking attacks against Christian sites&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<li>FBI memo targeting Catholics<br>The task force cites the FBI memo that labeled &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;radical-traditionalist” Catholics as potential &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;domestic terrorism threats&period;” It argues that this cast devout practice as suspicious and damaged trust with churches&period; In a report that emphasizes tone as well as outcomes&comma; investigators say this memo was a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;high-visibility marker” that encouraged field offices to treat religious conviction as a risk factor&period; The document is offered as proof that bias can spread through internal guidance even before any arrest or prosecution occurs&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<li>Treasury and the &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;debanking” of pro-Christian groups<br>The report points to &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;pro-Christian groups” that were debanked&comma; placing the concern within Treasury’s broad influence over the financial system&period; While the task force does not purport to regulate banks&comma; it faults the government for tolerating closures that function like a viewpoint test&period; If Christian advocacy groups can lose access to accounts without a clear&comma; neutral rationale&comma; the task force says&comma; then the government’s silence becomes complicity&period; This is presented as another way in which Christians were pushed to the margins of civic life&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<li>State Department relief&comma; speech rules&comma; and workplace treatment<br>The task force says the State Department gave &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;limited humanitarian relief to Christians relative to other populations” and offered &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;muted” responses to attacks on Christians&period; It also alleges &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;preferential employment practices” for non-Christian religions and notes that Christian employees were &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;less likely to be permitted leave” for their holy days&period; The report adds that State &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;imposed radical LGBTQ gender ideology on foreign governments and State employees&comma; including the forced usage of preferred pronouns and rainbow flags&comma;” which it says violated many Christians’ sincerely held beliefs&period; The through line is that Christian consciences were pressured while other identities received accommodation&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<li>Labor’s faith engagement replaced by a DEI office<br>According to the task force&comma; the Department of Labor dismantled its office of faith-based initiatives and replaced it with a diversity&comma; equity&comma; and inclusion office&period; Investigators argue that removing a faith-facing doorway made it harder for Christian nonprofits and employers to resolve conflicts early&period; The change is presented as structural proof that faith perspectives were downgraded&period; In the task force’s broader frame&comma; institutions matter because they set the default&period; When the default no longer includes faith&comma; bias becomes easier to normalize&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<li>HUD treatment of Christian holiday posts<br>The report says the Department of Housing and Urban Development &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;discriminated against Christian perspectives” on its marketing and social channels&comma; where posts celebrating Palm Sunday&comma; Good Friday&comma; and Easter were taken down while posts marking Pride Month&comma; Ramadan&comma; and Diwali &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;remained untouched&period;” The task force calls this a clean case of viewpoint discrimination in a public communication forum&period; It argues that removing Christian content while leaving other celebrations up told believers their holy days were out of bounds for official recognition&comma; which is the opposite of equal respect&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<li>DOJ’s broader indifference to anti-Christian bias complaints<br>Beyond specific prosecutions&comma; the task force concludes that DOJ showed no &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;effort to address and prosecute violations of the law where anti-Christian bias was demonstrated by the persecutors&period;” Paired with the FACE Act choices&comma; this created what investigators describe as a one-sided enforcement climate&period; The report says such signals discourage Christians from speaking&comma; gathering&comma; or serving in public because they cannot trust the referee&period; That chilling effect is part of what the task force means by a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;systemic pattern&period;”<&sol;li>&NewLine;<&sol;ol>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">The report declares&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Under President Trump and Attorney General Bondi’s leadership&comma; in partnership with all members of this Task Force&comma; the rule of law will be enforced with vigor&comma; and every religion will be treated with equality in both policy and action&period;” Rogers said&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Unlike Joe Biden&comma; President Trump is protecting Christians&comma; not punishing them&period;” The White House Faith Office&comma; created in February 2025&comma; is designed to help faith groups &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;better serve families and communities” and to align policy with &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;American values&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Skeptics call the task force partisan and argue it overstates bias&period; They note that Biden voiced support for religious equality and that the Office of Religious Freedom continued to &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;support the right of every person in the world to &OpenCurlyQuote;believe or not believe&comma; to change their beliefs&comma; speak about their beliefs&comma; and to manifest their beliefs through teaching&comma; practice&comma; worship&comma; and observance&period;’” They also point to the DOJ’s Reproductive Rights Task Force after state-level changes to abortion law&period; A former Biden official did not immediately comment in the reporting cited&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">The report frames the lesson in simple terms&period; When government treats faith as a liability&comma; rights erode quickly&period; When it treats faith as a liberty&comma; equal justice becomes possible&period; In its own words&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The days of anti-Christian bias in the federal government are over&period; Faith is not a liability in America&comma; it is a liberty&period;” The task force says its work is &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;just beginning&comma;” and it plans a fuller account and recommendations by February 2026&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph"><strong>PB Editor&colon; <&sol;strong> The bias was unbelievable&comma; it was hard to believe that these actions were taken in America&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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