{"id":2598169,"date":"2026-05-03T09:02:02","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T13:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/full-breakdown-biden-admins-expansive-religious-liberty-violations-against-christians-exposed-in-doj-report\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T09:04:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T13:04:51","slug":"full-breakdown-biden-admins-expansive-religious-liberty-violations-against-christians-exposed-in-doj-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/full-breakdown-biden-admins-expansive-religious-liberty-violations-against-christians-exposed-in-doj-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Full Breakdown: Biden Admin&#8217;s Expansive Religious Liberty Violations Against Christians Exposed in DOJ Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffull-breakdown-biden-admins-expansive-religious-liberty-violations-against-christians-exposed-in-doj-report%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2598169&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The excerpt describes a DOJ report titled **\u201ceradicating Anti-Christian Bias within the Federal Government,\u201d** which the article claims documents abuses during the Biden management and the kinds of corrective steps taken under the trump administration.<\/p>\n<p>It argues that Biden-era federal actions allegedly targeted Christians through aggressive enforcement, partnerships with pro-abortion groups, unequal prosecution and sentencing for pro-life defendants, attention to traditionalist Catholics framed as violent extremists, and pressure on parents who protested LGBT-related policies at school boards. The piece also claims that the Biden administration\u2019s IRS and Department of Education enforcement favored politically aligned groups, including applying rules (like the Johnson Amendment) in ways that allegedly chilled or punished religious speech and sanctioned Christian institutions more heavily.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond enforcement, the article asserts that policy choices-such as support for the **Equality Act**, alignment with expansive interpretations of employment discrimination rules, and promotion of gender-transition-related frameworks-treated Christian religious objections as discriminatory. It further claims that the administration used executive actions and agency guidance to advance abortion access and to restructure or marginalize religious liberty functions within government.<\/p>\n<p>it states that trump\u2019s task force is continuing through 2027 to implement remedial measures (like opening faith offices and issuing religious-liberty guidance) and includes statements from religious liberty advocates praising the report while warning more safeguards are still needed.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_5)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_6)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_7)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_8)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_9)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_10)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_11)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_12)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_13)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_14)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_15)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_16)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_17)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_18)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>The presidency of Joe Biden was a dark, though relatively brief, chapter in American history, replete with widespread prosecution and persecution of American Christians.<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump repeatedly pledged on the campaign trail to establish a federal task force to investigate and eradicate the anti-Christian bias evinced and enacted by the Biden administration, and has delivered on that promise.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday morning, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) published a 209-page <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/media\/1438506\/dl?utm_medium=&#038;utm_source=govdelivery\">report<\/a> entitled, \u201cEradicating Anti-Christian Bias within the Federal Government,\u201d detailing not only the numerous abuses of the Biden administration but also the remedies put in place by the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur Nation\u2019s origin and system of government bear the imprint of a Christian worldview and ethic, even as its laws protect religious pluralism.<\/p>\n<p>Christian beliefs, in conjunction with contemporary political thought and economic realities, influenced colonial settlers in their decision to overthrow tyranny and pursue independence,\u201d the report\u2019s introduction states.<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"anyclipvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} else { \t\t\t\tdocument.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\", function() { \t\t\t\t\tfunction loadAnyclip() { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst container = document.getElementById(\"anyclipvideo\"); 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\t\t\t\t\tobserveElement(paragraphToObserve); \t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter the Revolutionary War, Christians then informed the structure and contents of the United States Constitution, its amendments, and contemporaneous state constitutions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut, when Christian beliefs about morality and human nature conflicted with the Biden Administration\u2019s views, religious rights often suffered,\u201d the report\u2019s introduction continues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Biden Administration generally tolerated religious beliefs that were privately held but zealously pursued actions to limit Christians\u2019 ability to act in accordance with their faith.<\/p>\n<p>This affected matters of deep personal importance to nearly every American: life, family, marriage, and self-identity,\u201d it continues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Biden Administration\u2019s policies regularly clashed with a Christian worldview and burdened traditional religious practices. These conflicts frequently arose over abortion, gender ideology, and sexual orientation. Ultimately, the Biden Administration penalized Christians who lived in accordance with their beliefs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The report details 14 \u201ckey findings\u201d regarding the Biden administration\u2019s abuse of power and violation of religious liberties, ranging from a two-tiered justice system and aggressive prosecution of pro-life activists to the coercive violation of conscience rights and the rabid promotion of LGBT ideology.<\/p>\n<p>The taskforce also identifies several \u201cremedies\u201d that the Trump administration has enacted to ensure that the federal government is not weaponized against American Christians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo American should live in fear that the federal government will punish them for their faith,\u201d said Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, chair of the Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias, in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/task-force-publishes-report-eradicating-anti-christian-bias-and-restoring-religious-liberty\">statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the Biden administration\u2019s actions \u201cdevastated the lives of many Christian Americans,\u201d adding, \u201cThat devastation ended with President Trump.<\/p>\n<p>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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During an appearance on \u201cWashington Watch with Tony Perkins\u201d Thursday, Deputy Assistant Attorney General Camille Varone further <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=v0Y3lN3PM9k\">emphasized<\/a> that the report was \u201ca whole of government effort,\u201d noting that \u201cthe task force has 17 cabinet level members and other agency heads.<\/p>\n<p>But there were other agencies who were hearing about the work we were doing and were excited to participate. And so the report has findings from far more than just the task force members.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Below are the report\u2019s key findings and the Trump administration\u2019s proposed actions to eradicate anti-Christian bias from the federal government.<\/p>\n<p>The DOJ previously published a report tracking how the Biden administration used the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act to aggressively target pro-life Americans, while largely ignoring the law\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >provisions protecting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/josh-hawley-accuses-google-of-targeting-pregnancy-resources-pro-life-orgs-for-disfavor\/\" title=\"Josh Hawley Accuses Google Of \u2018...ing Pregnancy Resources,\u2019 Pro-... Orgs \u2018For Disfavor\u2019\">pro-life pregnancy resource centers<\/a><\/a> and houses of worship.<\/p>\n<p>The new report characterizes the Biden administration\u2019s DOJ as \u201can enforcement arm\u201d for the abortion industry.<\/p>\n<p>Over the course of Biden\u2019s tenure in the White House, his DOJ \u201croutinely\u201d collaborated with pro-abortion non-governmental organizations (NGOs) \u2014 chiefly the National Abortion Federation, Planned Parenthood, and the Feminist Majority Foundation \u2014 to prosecute pro-life Americans.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden DOJ would regularly request information from the abortion agencies relating to pro-life protests, prayer vigils, and other pro-life activities.<\/p>\n<p>In several cases, the Biden DOJ would even launch prosecutions at the request of pro-abortion NGOs, all while \u201cmostly disregard[ing] pro-life groups.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Varone also observed that \u201cnon-governmental organizations could poke around on the internet in ways that the department couldn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>There were so many different documents that we found from the National Abortion Federation and Planned Parenthood compiling dossiers where they were monitoring pro-life Americans \u2014 collecting information about their travel, their whereabouts, their social media posts, including posting of Bible verses.<\/p>\n<p>There were even information about the cars that they drove and photos of some of their children. And they compiled all of this to give it to the Department of Justice, to the people who were charged with prosecuting under the FACE Act in case something might happen [that the DOJ] may view as a potential crime.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Biden DOJ also withheld evidence requested by defense attorneys for pro-lifers and regularly pursued harsher penalties for pro-lifers than for pro-abortion activists.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Biden DOJ pursued significantly higher sentences (near the top range of sentencing guidelines) for pro-life defendants, while pursuing more lenient sentences against the handful of pro-abortion defendants that it charged,\u201d the report notes.<\/p>\n<p>On average, the Biden DOJ requested an average sentence of 26.8 months for the 21 pro-life defendants it successfully prosecuted, while requesting an average sentence of only 12.3 months for the six pro-abortion defendants it prosecuted.<\/p>\n<p>The most stringent sentence was handed to Lauren Handy, who was sentenced to 58 months (nearly five years) in prison. The Biden DOJ originally requested that she be sentenced to 78 months (six-and-a-half years).<\/p>\n<p>Upon taking office last year, Trump pardoned the pro-life activists targeted by the Biden administration and directed his DOJ to dismiss \u201cwith prejudice\u201d three civil lawsuits against pro-life defendants.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump DOJ also issued a directive ordering that prosecutors \u201cmay only bring FACE Act civil actions and prosecutions in extraordinary circumstances or in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-judiciary-committee-advances-repeal-of-the-face-act\/\" title=\"House Judiciary Committee Advances Repeal Of The ...\">cases presenting significant aggravating factors<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2023, it was revealed that the Biden administration\u2019s Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) illegally targeted American Catholics devoted to the Extraordinary Form of the Mass, the liturgy celebrated prior to the Second Vatican Council, and even spied on traditionalist Catholic parishes.<\/p>\n<p>The FBI\u2019s Richmond, Virginia, field office drafted a memo labeling \u201cradical traditionalist Catholics\u201d as potential \u201cracially or ethnically motivated violent extremists\u201d and detailing plans to infiltrate and spy on traditionalist Catholic parishes.<\/p>\n<p>While the Trump DOJ notes that the FBI\u2019s Weaponization Working Group will release a more in-depth report \u201cdetailing the day-to-day weaponization of the Richmond Field Office against conservative, practicing Catholics on the basis of guilt-by-association because one career criminal attended a local Catholic church,\u201d the DOJ\u2019s report provides an \u201coverview\u201d of the discrimination.<\/p>\n<p>Citing the recently-indicted Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), the Richmond field office labeled traditionalist Catholics as potential \u201cracially or ethnically motivated violent extremists\u201d and began crafting its memo, which was originally intended to be circulated nationwide across the agency.<\/p>\n<p>The arrest of career criminal Xavier Louis Lopez for possession of weapons including Molotov cocktails, improvised napalm, and hollow-point bullets provided an opportunity for the Richmond FBI to target a Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) parish with which Lopez was affiliated.<\/p>\n<p>Although Our Lady of Fatima parish in Richmond \u201cplayed no role whatsoever in Lopez\u2019s acquisition or possession of the destructive devices,\u201d the FBI interviewed the pastor, Father James Hewko, who asked to speak with the parish\u2019s legal representation before speaking to the FBI about Lopez.<\/p>\n<p>The FBI subsequently monitored both Hewko and his uncle, in addition to interviewing and monitoring others associated with the parish.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s FBI Director, Kash Patel, has vowed that this \u201cweaponization and politicization of law enforcement\u201d will never be \u201callowed to happen again.\u201d The FBI\u2019s Weaponization Working Group will disclose further details.<\/p>\n<p>In 2021, as parents across the country were voicing their discontent with radical LGBT policies at local school board meetings, Biden\u2019s attorney general, Merrick Garland, issued a DOJ-wide memo alleging that parents who protest at local school board meetings should be treated as potentially violent domestic extremists.<\/p>\n<p>Garland recommended forming a DOJ task force to explore the use of domestic terrorism statutes against parents and \u201crecommended that United States Attorney\u2019s Offices and FBI Field Offices coordinate with local law enforcement and school districts, and that the FBI\u2019s National Threat Operations Center assist by directing credible threats to appropriate law enforcement partners.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Although some within the DOJ warned that the actions of parents at school board meetings were almost certainly protected under the First Amendment and, even when parents did take action that constituted crimes, those crimes were often not federal offenses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose concerns did not win the day,\u201d the Trump DOJ\u2019s report notes. Garland revised his memo, but still urged the Biden DOJ to target concerned parents, who were characterized as \u201cthreats\u201d to school boards. The Biden DOJ \u201cquickly acted to follow through.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While the Biden DOJ\u2019s criminal division was \u201cskeptical,\u201d Garland and his team forged ahead with plans to prosecute parents who protested at school board meetings via \u201cpossible application of color of law provisions that criminalize conduct that interfere with those participating in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/3-supreme-court-justices-dissent-in-major-affirmative-action-ruling\/\" title=\"3 Supreme Court Justices Disagree in Key Affirmative ...ion Decision\">programs receiving federal financial assistance<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Under Biden, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) weaponized the Johnson Amendment against Christian nonprofit organizations. The Johnson Amendment is a U.S. tax code provision prohibiting most nonprofit organizations from endorsing or explicitly opposing political candidates.<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s IRS, the Trump DOJ\u2019s report explains, used the Johnson Amendment to target \u201cChristian churches and non-profit institutions, particularly those who espoused traditional Christian views that could be construed with a political valence, scrutinizing their statements for violations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Biden IRS seemingly singled out churches and nonprofit organizations that were characterized as supportive of Republican candidates and conservative issues, while failing to apply the Johnson Amendment to churches and nonprofit organizations aligned or affiliated with Democrats, even those that explicitly supported Democratic candidates or politicians.<\/p>\n<p>The investigations were not limited to the speech of pastors, but sought wide-ranging information on the finances and operations of targeted churches and nonprofit organizations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Biden IRS\u2019s pattern of enforcement,\u201d the Trump DOJ\u2019s report says, \u201craised serious concerns about the IRS attempting to regulate what certain pastors could say from the pulpit and chilled the speech of many other clergy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration\u2019s Treasury Department has subsequently revised its standards for application of the Johnson Amendment, clarifying that houses of worship can communicate to their congregations regarding moral and political matters in accord with their respective teachings without falling afoul of the Johnson Amendment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBona fide communications internal to a house of worship, between the house of worship and its congregation, in connection with religious services,\u201d neither \u201cparticipate\u201d nor \u201cintervene\u201d in political campaigns, \u201cany more than does a family discussion concerning candidates.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration\u2019s Department of Education levied hefty fines against Christian colleges and universities, while largely failing to pursue similar penalties against secular, non-religious institutions for similar regulatory violations.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Trump DOJ\u2019s report, the \u201caverage fine against a Christian school was $815,000, compared to $228,571 against public and private institutions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The two largest fines levied against Christian universities were against Grand Canyon University ($37.7 million) and Liberty university ($14 million).<\/p>\n<p>The fines against Liberty University were for supposed violations of the Clery Act, which provides the public with information regarding a university\u2019s safety.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump DOJ\u2019s report notes that the fines against Grand Canyon University and Liberty University \u201cdwarfed the fines levied against Pennsylvania State University ($2.4 million) for 11 Clery Act violations involving the school\u2019s failure to report sex offenses relating to its assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky\u2019s serial child molestation, and against Michigan State University ($4.5 million) for its failure to disclose sex offenses committed by Larry Nassar, a team physician who sexually assaulted hundreds of athletes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Under the Trump administration, the Department of Education has not only dismissed its case against Grand Canyon University, but rescinded its fine and has \u201calso committed to no longer disproportionately targeting Christian colleges and universities and to affirming the rights of Christian colleges and universities to act in accordance with their faith-based identity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In numerous cases, the Biden administration also failed or refused to prosecute federal conscience violation cases, allowing institutions to coerce Christians into violating their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-republicans-push-bill-aimed-at-balancing-lgbt-rights-and-religious-freedom\/\" title=\"House Republicans Push Bill Aimed at Balancing LGBT ... and ...\">sincerely held religious beliefs<\/a> or penalizing them for adhering to their Christian morals.<\/p>\n<p>In one example, the Biden DOJ dropped a lawsuit against the University of Vermont Medical Center for compelling Christian employees to participate in committing abortions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis case is emblematic of the Biden Administration\u2019s approach to conscience enforcement: When the scope of federal protections was legally contested, the Administration generally chose the interpretation least protective of religious objectors and resolved active enforcement matters through administrative means, if possible, rather than litigation,\u201d the Trump DOJ\u2019s report comments. \u201cGovernment inaction of this kind is an especially damaging source of anti-Christian bias precisely because it is difficult to see and harder to remedy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration\u2019s anti-Christian bias was not relegated to enforcement actions, but also to policy choices. The administration supported the \u201cEquality Act,\u201d which would have \u201cfully eliminate[d] statutory religious protections for Christians and other religions that hold traditional social values\u201d by barring, without exemption, \u201cdiscrimination\u201d on the basis of sex, sexual orientation, or gender identity in areas such as public accommodations and facilities, education, federal funding, employment, housing, credit, and the jury system.<\/p>\n<p>Although numerous academics and religious leaders warned that the legislation would amount to a significant infringement on First Amendment rights, the Biden administration forcefully supported the legislation in Congress.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlthough the Biden Administration was ultimately unsuccessful in its push to enact the Equality Act, it sought to implement the same policy goals wherever possible through executive actions, guidance memoranda, and rulemakings,\u201d the Trump DOJ\u2019s report announced.<\/p>\n<p>The administration\u2019s \u201coverbroad\u201d application of the U.S. Supreme Court\u2019s holding in Bostock v. Clayton County targeted Christians and Christian organizations for their biblical worldview on biological sex and human sexuality, while Biden\u2019s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) worked overtime to entrench transgender ideology in the federal bureaucracy and classify gender transition procedures as necessary and life-saving medicine.<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) \u201cdismissed sincerely held religious beliefs regarding sexual orientation and gender identity as \u2018discrimination in hiring \u2026 cloaked as religious practice,\u2019\u201d while the Department of Education likewise shifted its non-discrimination policies to promote and hide gender transition procedures for children. The Departments of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Labor, and Agriculture all similarly revised their guidance on key statutes and legal precedents, such as Bostock and Titles VII, IX, and X of the Civil Rights Act, to shield progressive agenda items.<\/p>\n<p>In many cases, when Christians and other professionals or professional organizations suggested, based on empirical evidence and research, that gender transition procedures (especially for children) may not be harmless or beneficial, the Biden administration and its agencies often sidelined or outright silenced those voices, or ignored them.<\/p>\n<p>For example, when the British government published the extensive Cass Review, detailing the significant dangers posed by exposing minors to gender transition procedures and ultimately terminating the British government\u2019s support for the practice, the Biden administration \u201cmaintained that the report did not alter their support for minors\u2019 access to sex-rejecting procedures and medical intervention.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration\u2019s policy decisions also encouraged state and local governments to bar Christian couples from participating in foster programs, claiming that the couples\u2019 sincerely held religious beliefs on biological sex or human sexuality would pose a threat to children who identify as transgender or homosexual.<\/p>\n<p>Other actions targeted talk-based Christian therapy designed to assist those struggling with unwanted same-sex attraction and even attempted to bar Christians from practicing therapy in many areas.<\/p>\n<p>Numerous executive actions were also taken by the Biden administration to proliferate the practice of abortion, even after the Supreme Court\u2019s 2022 ruling overturning Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey.<\/p>\n<p>Biden administration actions attempted to skirt federal statutes barring taxpayer funding from being used for abortions and directly used federal agencies to facilitate abortions.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration regularly replaced departmental faith offices with diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) offices and repeatedly sidelined Christians and Christian organizations.<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s Department of Homeland Security (DHS), for example, hosted 59 meetings and roundtables with non-Christian faith-based organizations to discuss potential terrorist threats and safety.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden DHS hosted only two such meetings with Christian organizations. The Trump DOJ referred to Family Research Council\u2019s report on increasing hostility against Christians to note that the \u201cdisparity is notable given that Christians comprise an estimated 62 percent of the U.S. population and have faced increased hostility and violence in recent years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other Biden administration actions that targeted Christians included adverse employment actions, such as eliminating religious discrimination safeguards in the EEOC and issuing blanket denials of religious exemption requests, particularly those related to COVID-19 restrictions and mandates.<\/p>\n<p>According to a survey of federal employees, nearly one third (30.1%) were denied pay based on their religious objections to COVID-19 mandates, while others were denied travel, reassigned, lost their security clearances, or were formally reprimanded. Nearly one fifth (18.3%) reported having been removed from their posts and nearly 12% said that they were fired.<\/p>\n<p>While the Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias will continue its work through 2027, it has already begun working to eradicate anti-Christian bias from the federal government.<\/p>\n<p>Pursuant to the taskforce\u2019s recommendations, most federal agencies have opened and operate faith offices, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has issued memos reinforcing religious liberties, and the DOJ\u2019s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) has issued guidance on religious liberty protections afforded by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, in addition to other actions taken by federal agencies. The task force will publish further remedial actions taken in its 2027 report.<\/p>\n<p>Religious liberty advocates have thanked the Trump administration for its efforts to tackle the issue of anti-Christian bias and the weaponization of the federal government against Americans of faith, but have warned that there is still much work to be done.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a very good report on the pervasive anti-Christian bias under the Biden administration; capturing many of the domestic religious liberty concerns we have noticed in recent years, especially on marriage, family, sexuality, and life issues \u2014 as well as hostility against Christianity in general,\u201d said Family Research Council President Tony Perkins in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that hostility towards Christians skyrocketed under Biden\u2019s tenure, including violent attacks on pro-life pregnancy resource centers and Christian churches.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYet, as this DOJ report shows, the Biden administration did very little in response and instead weaponized its resources to target Christians including imprisoning grandmothers praying outside of abortion centers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis report does raise questions about what comes next. And what happens the next time a radical progressive like President Biden comes to power? We must ensure this targeting never happens again under any future administration,\u201d Perkins asserted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe must ensure that the bedrock of American society and culture is placed on a firm footing in which freedom is respected for everyone. What better time to do this than our nation\u2019s 250th birthday? Religious freedom is seldom handed to the passive; it is claimed by those who exercise it even when a hostile culture says they may not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow is the time to take this insight and put in safeguards at the federal, state, and local levels that will prevent future Democrat administrations from hollowing out the First Amendment, making it difficult for them to pervert America,\u201d Perkins continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUltimately, the preventative prescription to anti-Christian bias from our own government is Christians sharing the gospel and living out their faith in a God honoring way. While we should press on the government to act justly, it\u2019s up to the church to change the culture that has given rise to this anti-Christian bias.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=v0Y3lN3PM9k\">Washington Watch<\/a>\u201d Thursday, Deputy Assistant Attorney General Varone indicated that the DOJ is currently investigating whether leftist NGOs violated the law in their dealings with the Biden administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt minimum, it would violate best practices,\u201d she noted. \u201cAnd so we\u2019d start with that. There are concerns that some of the conduct here may have gone further.<\/p>\n<p>I can\u2019t get into specifics because DOJ handles all of its internal personnel and investigations privately. But as the report mentions, appropriate referrals have been made.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Travis Weber, vice president for Policy and Government Affairs at FRC, said in comments to The Washington Stand, \u201cWith this report, President Trump and his administration have issued an important corrective to the anti-Christian bias that was tolerated, advanced, and\/or enabled for too long by the Biden administration.<\/p>\n<p>Yet we must not stop here, but rather must determine next steps and consider how this hostility manifests in our culture and the local communities on which our country is knit together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cFor America to flourish in the long-term, we must move beyond the political \u2018see-saw\u2019 we are currently on and regain that \u2018common ground\u2019 of national consensus on which freedom rests.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe must remember that what the Trump administration is responding to politically is \u2014 more deeply \u2014 a cultural and spiritual issue,\u201d Weber observed. \u201cWe are often \u2018responding\u2019 to bias and hostility.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, we need to think proactively about how to shift our culture back toward a respect for freedom and faith \u2014 and the role that both play in society, for the benefit of ALL members of society.<\/p>\n<p>As the Trump administration considers what to do with the findings detailed in this report, Christians in America also need to be asking ourselves the same question: \u2018What\u2019s our next step?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"sc-4699d60d-0 sc-e5014824-0 kNkoeB hKBuKc\">\n<p><em>S.A. 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