In a major victory for conservative Christians, President Donald Trump signed an official order focusing on the eradication of “anti-Christian” bias within the federal government, calling out the Biden administration for engaging in an “egregious pattern” of targeting Christians and ignoring violence against them.
For background, on February 6, 2025, President Trump signed an order titled “Eradicating Anti-Christian Bias,” in which he emphasized the need to protect the religious freedoms of all Americans and “end the anti-Christian weaponization” within the federal government. The president added that the Constitution provides the “fundamental right” of religious liberty, which his administration is seeking to protect through the order.
In a statement shared on the White House website, President Trump said that the Constitution “enshrines the fundamental right to religious liberty in the First Amendment,” adding that multiple federal laws “further prohibit interference with Americans’ rights to exercise their religion.” The president then wrote that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act “prohibits religious discrimination within employment.”
However, the president clarified that within the Biden administration, he saw “an egregious pattern of targeting peaceful Christians, while ignoring violent, anti-Christian offenses.” He continued, “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.”
Building on his point, President Trump wrote that among those convicted by the Biden DOJ were “a Catholic priest and 75-year-old grandmother, as well as an 87-year-old woman and a father of 11 children who were arrested 18 months after praying and singing hymns outside an abortion facility in Tennessee as a part of a politically motivated prosecution campaign by the Biden Administration.” He added, “I rectified this injustice on January 23, 2025, by issuing pardons in these cases.”
Moreover, the president noted that Catholic churches, along with charities and pro-life facilities, have “sought justice for violence, theft, and arson perpetrated against them,” adding that the Biden administration’s Department of Justice “largely ignored” these requests.” He went on, “After more than 100 attacks, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution condemning this violence and calling on the Biden Administration to enforce the law.”
Continuing, President Trump said that his administration “will not tolerate anti-Christian weaponization of government or unlawful conduct targeting Christians, adding, “The law protects the freedom of Americans and groups of Americans to practice their faith in peace, and my Administration will enforce the law and protect these freedoms. My Administration will ensure that any unlawful and improper conduct, policies, or practices that target Christians are identified, terminated, and rectified.”
Moreover, the president instructed a task force to review the activities “of all executive departments and agencies” to identify “any unlawful anti-Christian policies,” adding that the task force would “solicit information and ideas from a broad range of individuals and groups, including Americans affected by anti-Christian conduct, faith-based organizations, and State, local, and Tribal governments, in order to ensure that its work is informed by a broad spectrum of ideas and experiences.”
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