Trump to Tackle ‘Anti-Christian Bias’ with White House Religious OfficeJohn Hayward 7 Feb 2025
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President Donald Trump on Thursday told a prayer breakfast in Washington that he will create a task force to “immediately halt all forms of anti-Christian targeting and discrimination within the federal government, including at the DOJ, which was absolutely terrible, the IRS, the FBI and other agencies.”
Trump promised that Attorney General Pam Bondi, who was confirmed by the Senate on Tuesday, would “fully prosecute anti-Christian violence and vandalism in our society and to move heaven and earth to defend the rights of Christians and religious believers nationwide.”
Trump went on to sign an executive order creating the Department of Justice (DOJ) Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias on Thursday.
“You’ve never had that before, but this is a very powerful document I’m signing,” he said. “You got it now — first time you’ve had it. If we don’t have religious liberty, then we don’t have a free country. We probably don’t even have a country.”
Chaired by the Attorney General, the new task force has seats for almost the entire Cabinet, plus the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, the director of the FBI, the administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), and other top officials. The executive order provides for inviting the heads of even more departments and agencies to participate at the Attorney General’s discretion.
Trump’s executive order trenchantly blamed the Biden administration for engaging in “an egregious pattern of targeting peaceful Christians, while ignoring violent, anti-Christian offenses.”
“The Biden Department of Justice sought to squelch faith in the public square by bringing Federal criminal charges and obtaining in numerous cases multi-year prison sentences against nearly two dozen peaceful pro-life Christians for praying and demonstrating outside abortion facilities,” the order noted.
Trump pardoned over 20 pro-life activists in late January to rectify Biden’s “injustice,” but the president said his work was not done. His executive order castigated the Biden DOJ for ignoring “violence, theft, and arson” perpetrated against churches and pro-life centers, the Biden FBI for treating churches like terrorist threats, and the Biden Department of Education for attempting to “repeal religious-liberty protections for faith-based organizations on college campuses.”
Furthermore, President Trump said the Biden Department of Health and Human Services “sought to drive Christians who do not conform to certain beliefs on sexual orientation and gender identity out of the foster-care system,” culminating in the deliberate insult of designating Easter Sunday 2024 as a “Transgender Day of Visibility.”
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