A new report from the Trump administration’s “Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias” lays out what it calls a sweeping pattern of federal “weaponization” under President Joe Biden, accusing agencies across the government of targeting Christians, traditional Catholics and faith-based institutions.
The report traces its origins to Executive Order 14202, “Eradicating Anti-Christian Bias,” which President Donald J. Trump signed early in his administration. The order created an interagency task force led by the Justice Department to “investigate those concerns; to identify where religious discrimination may have informed the Biden Administration’s policies, practices, or decisions; and to take immediate steps to rectify weaponization of government and unlawful conduct affecting Christians.”
The document frames the issue as bigger than one religion, arguing that an aggressive posture toward the country’s largest faith community is a warning sign for everyone.
“By addressing anti-Christian bias and religious discrimination directly, Americans can make religious discrimination unthinkable for all faiths,” the report states.
At its core, the report argues the Biden administration “generally tolerated religious beliefs that were privately held” but moved “to limit Christians’ ability to act in accordance with their faith.”
It says the clashes were most intense on abortion, gender ideology and sexual orientation, and that the practical impact landed on everyday life: jobs, schools, family decisions and medical care.
The task force says it reviewed enforcement actions, agency policies, employment practices and alleged limits on religious expression. It also claims it gathered data from agencies and testimonies from employees and affected groups.
One of the report’s central allegations targets Biden-era prosecutions under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act.
According to the report, the Biden DOJ pursued “aggressive prosecutions against non-violent, pro-life, Christian demonstrators” while responding “less aggressively to violent attacks against pregnancy resource centers.”
It claims pro-abortion non-governmental organizations had “routine contact” with DOJ and helped drive enforcement by alerting investigators, supplying evidence and building dossiers on activists, including photographs and personal information.
Among the most explosive assertions: “The Biden DOJ knowingly withheld evidence that defense counsel requested in order to prepare an affirmative defense for at least one pro-life defendant.”
The report also alleges misconduct during jury selection and internal communications. It says prosecutors “tried to screen out jurors based on their Christian beliefs,” and it claims some prosecutors mocked pro-life views.
It further asserts a sentencing disparity: “The Biden DOJ requested an average sentence of 26.8 months for pro-life defendants, compared to 12.3 months for pro-choice defendants.”
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The report also revisits the controversy over an FBI Richmond field office intelligence product that drew scrutiny for discussing “traditional Catholics” and possible links to violent extremism.
The task force says the FBI “investigated, monitored, tracked, and scrutinized traditional Catholics who had engaged in no criminal misconduct,” and that the office relied on “baseless allegations” from the Southern Poverty Law Center and the religious affiliation of a single target who described himself as a “radical traditional Catholic.”
According to the report, the Richmond office considered traditional Catholics as potential threats based on “their preferred popes, devotion to the Traditional Latin Mass, and views on abortion, immigration, and human sexuality.”
Another section accuses the Biden Internal Revenue Service of investigating churches for sermon content and Christian organizations for applying biblical teaching to public life.
The report claims religious groups alleged the IRS failed to apply the Johnson Amendment in a viewpoint-neutral way, appearing to investigate conservative-leaning Christian speech while ignoring liberal candidate endorsements at other churches.
One example cited in the report alleges a denial of tax-exempt status because a group’s “Bible teachings are typically affiliated with the Republican party and candidates. This disqualifies you from exemption under IRC Section 501(c)(3).”
The report argues the Biden Department of Education aimed enforcement at Christian institutions, pointing to large penalties against Grand Canyon University and Liberty University.
It highlights what it calls a stark comparison: “These fines dwarfed the ones levied against Pennsylvania State University ($2.4 million) for assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky’s serial child molestation and against Michigan State University ($4.5 million) for physician Larry Nassar’s sexual assault of hundreds of athletes.”
The report says the education department’s rhetoric was especially pointed. It cites then-Secretary Miguel Cardona as saying ED is “cracking down” on Grand Canyon University “not only to shut them down, but [also] to send a message not to prey on students.”
On abortion and conscience protections, the report accuses Biden-era HHS and DOJ of “scaled back” enforcement and resolving cases through “technical assistance” rather than penalties, including a matter involving the University of Vermont Medical Center.
The report claims a Christian nurse was “coerced into participating in an abortion despite her religious objections,” and it argues the lack of a federal remedy left the issue unresolved for future cases.
The report argues that beyond individual enforcement actions, Biden-era agencies embedded a broad reading of Bostock v. Clayton County into rules and guidance, extending the logic into education, health care, housing and employment rules.
It claims the Biden DOJ replaced an earlier memorandum that emphasized respecting religious rights with a new posture that treated some exemption requests as “harmful conduct to be regulated,” even as courts rejected parts of the approach.
It also alleges agencies used a burdensome “case-by-case” framework for religious exemptions, which the report suggests offered only “illusory protection” in practice.
Another major theme is workplace religious accommodations during COVID-19 vaccine mandates.
The report says agencies promised case-by-case reviews but left requests “summarily denied or remained pending indefinitely.” It alleges adverse consequences for employees who sought exemptions, including lost promotions, revoked security clearances, denial of training, loss of pay and being barred from workplaces.
The report also claims federal entities restricted religious expression in public spaces and programs.
It cites examples including groups asked to remove religious or pro-life attire at federally managed museums and a Catholic organization denied access to hold a Memorial Day mass in a national cemetery.
It also claims a Christian student in the Jobs Corps program was prohibited from holding a voluntary Bible study outside school hours, and that a Catholic hospital was told to extinguish a sanctuary candle or risk losing participation in federal health programs.
The report argues that federal outreach and symbolism under Biden frequently prioritized other constituencies while marginalizing Christians. It cites, among other examples, claims about limited DHS faith-based engagement with Christians and State Department decisions involving religious freedom designations abroad.
Over and over, the report frames the dispute as one about constitutional rights, not just politics, warning that once federal power is used to pressure or punish religious practice, the precedent can spread.
To underscore that point, the report quotes President George Washington’s Farewell Address:
“Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens. The mere politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them. A volume could not trace their connections with private and public felicity. Let it simply be asked where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths, which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice? And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on the minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.”
The report says the task force is continuing its work and will issue further updates, including agency-by-agency steps to “remediate its findings and fulfill the promise of religious liberty for all Americans.” It also signals potential future recommendations for executive or legislative action.
For now, the task force is pitching its document as a warning flare, a claim that Washington crossed a line, and that the country should not accept any government using federal muscle to pressure faith into the shadows.
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