But it doesn't say anything if religion discriminants others. What happens when when a persons religion is used to discriminate others?
Ephesians 6:5, which states: “Slaves, obey your earthly masters with respect and fear, and with sincerity of heart, just as you would obey Christ."
Was used to justify slavery... what would happen if someone would use that to justify having slaves... would the courts allow slavery again? What about stoning to death for adultery?
Do you think if the court ruled discrimination against Black is religious freedom? So when we see discrimination against us and they claim "Religious Freedom" is bogus! So with fear I worry that Trump's Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias will take aim at us, the trans community and whole LGBTQ+ community.
The New Republic
By Tara Mergener
May 10, 2025
President Donald Trump is stepping up efforts to combat what he describes as a rising wave of anti-Christian discrimination in the United States. Amid a series of events in Washington last week surrounding the National Prayer Breakfast, Trump signed an executive order establishing a new task force dedicated to addressing and eliminating anti-Christian bias within the federal government.
The executive order draws attention to an increase in vandalism targeting conservative churches and pro-life pregnancy centers, particularly following the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. The move aligns with a key initiative in the Republican Party's 2024 campaign platform.
At the National Prayer Breakfast, Trump took direct aim at several key federal agencies, including the Department of Justice, the IRS, and the FBI. As part of the newly established initiative, Trump has appointed Attorney General Pam Bondi to lead the task force. The group's mandate will include identifying discriminatory policies and practices across federal agencies and recommending further executive or legislative action.
Um... Ah... It was a pro-abortion facility that was bombed! Not a pro-life center?
AP News writes that people are worried that task forces will tear down the First Amendment separation of church and state.
Critics are even more aghast that he’s questioning a core understanding of the First Amendment. “They say ‘separation between church and state,’” Trump said at the prayer day gathering, when he talked about establishing the White House Faith Office. “I said, all right, let’s forget about that for one time.”
Trump’s creation of these various bodies is “definitely not normal, and it’s very important to not look at them as individual entities,” said the Rev. Shannon Fleck, executive director of Faithful America, a progressive Christian advocacy organization.
“They are indicative of an entire system that is being constructed at the national level,” she said. “It’s a system specifically designed to guide and shape culture in the U.S.”
Fleck worries about the combined effect of Trump administration actions and a spate of decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court in recent years. The court, now with three Trump appointees, has lowered barriers between church and state in its interpretations of the First Amendment’s ban on any congressionally recognized establishment of religion.
The goal of the Trump administration and the Republican party is to create a Christian Nation. And it is not just any Christian Nation but one of evangelicals Christian, in other words... "Born Agains" Christians.
“My freedom of religion runs right up to the point when yours begins, and if I am then trying to establish something that’s going to affect your right to practice your faith, that is against the First Amendment,” Fleck said.
So when does religion become a "national religion?"
Axios writes that,
State of play: The order for federal workers to report any "anti-Christian bias" came after that meeting.
VA Secretary Doug Collins sent a department-wide email last month asking employees to "submit any instance of anti-Christian discrimination."
He said examples would include "any retaliatory actions taken in response to religious holiday observances," and "any observations of mistreatment for not participating in events or activities inconsistent with Christian views."
The VA is still figuring out what happens next.
The agency is "staffing the anti-Christian bias task force and developing a framework for handling issues flagged by VA employees," VA Press Secretary, Pete Kasperowicz said in an email to Axios.
"If there is bias, we want to find it, we want to make it right," a White House official told Axios.
Question: When does recognizing other religions become "anti-Christian bias"? Would celebrating Ramadan be considered "anti-Christian bias"? Meanwhile The New Republic sees it as a stepping stone for a Christian.
The administration plans to boost the political agenda of Christian nationalists while rolling back the civil liberties of everyone else.
By Katherine Stewart
May 7, 2025
On April 22, Attorney General Pam Bondi hosted the first meeting of the “Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias in the Federal Government.” Attendees included the secretaries of Defense, State, Homeland Security, Health & Human Services, Veterans Affairs, Education, and Labor, as well as over a dozen high-ranking officials in the administration. Those attending didn’t seem to be bothered by the fact that no evidence of such widespread bias exists. That’s because they weren’t there to solve a problem but to create one. The Task Force claimed to be standing up for “religious liberty,” but its real goal is to amplify the persecution complex of the Trump administration’s Christian nationalist allies and base—and then to use groundless claims of religious discrimination as the basis for the suppression of dissent.
But where is this so called persecution of Christians? How you seen any anti-abortion clinics being bombed? Have you seen any church firebombed like synagogues have been?
In the United States, attacks on Christians continue to occur at far lower rates than those targeted at other religious groups, including Jews, Muslims, and Sikhs. The Task Force’s exclusive focus on Christian victims exposes its rhetoric about defending “religious liberty” as transparently insincere.
Instances of alleged “anti-Christian bias” cited in the executive order that established the Task Force are even more revealing. The first and most prominent example of bias provided is the conviction of anti-abortion activists in connection with their violations of laws intended to protect the rights of individuals seeking health care services—a group that Trump pardoned in his first days in office. The second example is an internal FBI memo from 2023 that identified certain extremist Catholic groups as potential terror threats—even though an internal FBI review of the memo in 2024 concluded that there was no evidence the memo targeted or resulted in the targeting of anyone on account of their religious beliefs, Catholic or otherwise.
Religion-Based Crimes: There were 2,699 reported incidents based on religion. More than half of these (1,832) were driven by anti-Jewish bias. Incidents involving anti-Muslim (236) sentiments rose from last year, while anti-Sikh (156) incidents fell slightly compared to 2022.
As a trans person and a member of the LGBTQ+ community, I am very concerned that they will use this task force to discriminate against us in the name of religious persecution because they have to put up with us.
As the Wendy's commercial from the 1980s said...
Where's the discrimination?
If anything, they are the ones doing the religious persecution of affirming churches!
