U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi hosted the first meeting Tuesday for the Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias following President Donald Trump’s executive order to eradicate anti-Christian bias in the federal government.
Announcing the purpose of the multi-agency task force on Tuesday, Bondi said, “Together, this task force will identify any unlawful anti-Christian policies, practices, or conduct across the government, seek input from faith-based organizations and state governments to end anti-Christian bias, find and fix deficiencies in existing and regulatory practice that might contribute to the anti-Christian bias.”
“As President Trump has stated, the Biden administration engaged in an egregious pattern of targeting peaceful Christians while ignoring violent, anti-Christian offenses. The president is right,” Bondi added. “Biden’s Department of Justice abused and targeted Christians.”
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Bondi explained that the Biden administration arrested and imprisoned pro-life Christians for praying outside abortion clinics, Catholic churches were spied on by Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents, former President Joe Biden declared a national Transgender Day of Visibility on Easter Sunday, and church vandalism was eight times higher in 2023 than it was in 2018 under the Trump administration.
The attorney general emphasized on Tuesday that the Trump administration quickly “ended” the “abuses” against Christians at the Department of Justice and took immediate action at the start of the administration to “ensure that abuse would not continue and that American tax dollars were not used to support the weaponization of our legal system to target Christians.”
According to a Tuesday press release, other Trump administration officials at Tuesday’s task force meeting included Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and FBI Director Kash Patel.
The Department of Justice noted that witnesses of the Biden administration’s anti-Christian bias who spoke at Tuesday’s meeting included Liberty University Provost and Chief Academic Officer Dr. Scott Hicks, Michael Farris, a First Amendment litigator who represented Cornerstone Church Senior Pastor Gary Hamrick, and Phil Mendes, a U.S. Navy Seal who was relieved of duty for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine due to his religious beliefs.
“As shown by our victims’ stories today, Biden’s Department of Justice abused and targeted peaceful Christians while ignoring violent, anti-Christian offenses,” Bondi said. “Thanks to President Trump, we have ended those abuses, and we will continue to work closely with every member of this Task Force to protect every American’s right to speak and worship freely.”
