The Department of Justice released a 200-page report exposing the Biden administration’s anti-Christian bias, detailing prosecutions, policies, and actions taken across the federal government targeting the group. The report aligns with President Trump’s February 2025 executive order to “protect the religious freedoms of Americans and end the anti-Christian weaponization of government.”
According to the report, “The Biden Administration generally tolerated religious beliefs that were privately held but zealously pursued actions to limit Christians’ ability to act in accordance with their faith.” Conflicts specifically arose over “abortion, gender ideology, and sexual orientation,” it notes.
Describing actions taken during the COVID-19 pandemic, the report said, “The Task Force found that during the COVID-19 period, federal agencies frequently subjected employees seeking religious accommodations to invasive scrutiny of their beliefs.” It explained that “multiple agencies required employees to complete detailed questionnaires probing their religious doctrinal views, personal religious practice, and religious sincerity. Repeated demands for such information delayed adjudication and imposed a coercive burden on religious exercise. These practices contravened well-established legal standards requiring employers to presume sincerity absent a particularized and articulable reason for doubt.”
The report also detailed the Biden-era FBI scrutiny of traditional Catholics, IRS investigations into churches, fines against Christian universities, and prosecutions of FACE Act violations.
The conclusions were described as “sobering.”
“The Task Force’s findings are particularly troubling against the backdrop of apparent increases in threats, vandalism, and violence against Christians in the last few years,” the report says in its conclusion. “Christian schools and churches have faced unimaginable mass shootings in Tennessee and Minnesota, while Christian conservative activist Charlie Kirk was killed in broad daylight while dialoguing over matters of faith and policy. Political protests have moved off the streets into houses of worship, where protestors disrupted Christians’ participation in worship services.”
“When confronted with this grim reality, the federal government’s response will set the tone: Even when our hearts are troubled, American freedoms must be strengthened, and our constitutional republic must steadfastly preserve them,” it declares.
“No American should live in fear that the federal government will punish them for their faith,” said Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, Chair of the Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias. “As our report lays out, the Biden Administration’s actions devastated the lives of many Christian Americans. That devastation ended with President Trump. 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.”
