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Task Force Publishes Report on Eradicating Anti-Christian Bias and Restoring Religious Liberty

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“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.”
Let us pray that all persecution of Christians will stop and that more people will come to Jesus.
 

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LoL, what baloney. Pointless pandering to an audience not smart enough to realize they’re being played by an administration that couldn’t care less about Christianity. But they’ll eat it all up and ask for seconds anyway.
 
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List of the Task Force members

Chair, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche
Secretary of State Marco Rubio
Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth
Acting Secretary of Labor Keith E. Sonderling
Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Scott Turner
Secretary of Education Linda McMahon
Secretary of Veterans Affairs Douglas Collins
Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin
Director of the Office of Management and Budget Russell Vought
Representative of the United States of America to the United Nations Mike Waltz
Administrator of the Small Business Administration Kelly Loeffler
Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation Kash Patel
Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy Vince Haley
Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Currently Vacant)
Chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Andrea Lucas.

All current Trump administration members.

Not a single religious organisation, individual clergyman, priest or minister present in the task force or listed as an author.

Not a single academic with expertise in religion, discrimination or the interface between religious freedoms and other freedoms.

Not a single legal or public policy expert.


This "report" is a ~25 page preamble, a list of grievances against the Biden administration, a series of reheated press-releases, excepts from interviews with a political and religious grifters and then a BUNCH of content that should have been separate appendices.

Look at who they talked to:
Christians Engaged - right wing Christian political advocacy group
Intercessors for America - right wing Christian ministry
Alliance Defending Freedom - right wing Christian legal group
First Liberty Institute - right wing Christian legal group
Grand Canyon University - conservative/literalist Christian university
Liberty University - conservative/literalist Evangelical Christian university


The content is execrable. This is a ~525 page document that reads like it was written by a group of ideologically motivated middle schoolers who think Joe Rogan is an intellectual heavyweight and live to "own the libs".

I've not edited academic papers since my masters degree more than 2 decades ago, but submitting something of this standard would have me breaking out the red markers. I suspect one wouldn't have been enough.


Overall, its a BIG "waaaaaaahhhhh" that Evangelical Christians/'Traditional' Catholics aren't receiving positive discrimination for being Evangelical Christians/'Traditional' Catholics.

Oh, and it's OBSESSED with trans people (470 occurrences of 'gender' in the document, 154 occurrences of 'gender ideology', 141 occurrences of 'tansgender', 19 of 'gender identification', 12 of 'trans'). And abortion.

Of the actual core of the document, about a third is just complaining that trans people are [EDIT: not] being discriminated against enough. And another ~25% is whinging about the implications of the Dobbs decision allowing states to make their own abortion laws again.


And they're BIGLY MAD about not being able to practice conversion therapy any more.


EDIT: Whoa, really should have run this through a spell-checker first
 
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“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.”
Let us pray that all persecution of Christians will stop and that more people will come to Jesus.
American Christians confuse inconveniences with persecution.
 
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It's certainly a very long document. Here's my favorite so far.

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For those who have forgotten, Transgender Day of Visibility is on March 31st every year (ever since it was started in 2009).

Easter obviously hops around the calendar, so this was just a coincidence that had nothing to do with any actions or changes made by Biden. Biden shared an Easter message on Easter.

Also, given the fact that the 31st was a Sunday, it should not be such a pearl-clutching surprise that the proclamation came on Friday, a weekday. For the first three years of Biden's proclamations, the date fell on a weekday.
 
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List of the Task Force members

Chair, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche
Secretary of State Marco Rubio
Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth
Acting Secretary of Labor Keith E. Sonderling
Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Scott Turner
Secretary of Education Linda McMahon
Secretary of Veterans Affairs Douglas Collins
Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin
Director of the Office of Management and Budget Russell Vought
Representative of the United States of America to the United Nations Mike Waltz
Administrator of the Small Business Administration Kelly Loeffler
Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation Kash Patel
Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy Vince Haley
Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Currently Vacant)
Chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Andrea Lucas.

All current Trump admistration members.

Not a single religious organisation, individual clergyman, priest or minister present in the task force or listed as an author.

Not a single academic with expertise in religion, discrimination or the interface between religious freedoms and other freedoms.

Not a single legal or public policy expert.

This "report" is a ~25 page preable, a list of greivances against the Biden administration, a series of reheated press-releases, excepts from interviews with a political and religious grifters and then a BUNCH of content that should have been separate appendicies.

Look at who they talked to

Christians Engaged - right wing Christian political advocay group
Intercessors for America - right wing Christian ministry
Alliance Defending Freedom - right wing Christian legal group
First Liberty Institute - right wing Christian legal group
Grand Canyon University - conservative/literalist Christian university
Liberty University - conservative/literalist Evangelical Christian university

The content is excerable. This is a ~525 page document that reads like it was written by a group of ideologically motivated middle schoolers who think Joe Rogan is an intellectual heavyweight and live to "own the libs".

I've not edited academic papers since my masters degree more than 2 decades ago, but submitting something of this standard would have me breaking out the red markers. I suspect one wouldn't have been enough.


Ovarall, its a BIG "waaaaaaahhhhh" that Evangelical Christians/'Traditional' Catholics aren't receiving positive discrimination for being Evangelical Christians/'Traditional' Catholics.

Oh, and it's OBSESSED with trans people (470 occurences of 'gender' in the document, 154 occurences of 'gender ideology', 141 occurences of 'tansgender', 19 of 'gender identification', 12 of 'trans'). And abortion.

Of the actual core of the document, about a third is just complaining that trans people are being discrimininated enough. And another ~25% is whinging about the implications of the Dobbs decision allowing states to make their own abortion laws again.

And they're BIGLY MAD about not being able to practice conversion therapy any more.
There really needs to be a Post Of The Week award. Very well done on investgating it in such detail so that the rest of us (and that'll include the op) don't have to.
 
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There really needs to be a Post Of The Week award. Very well done on investgating it in such detail so that the rest of us (and that'll include the op) don't have to.
For those who don't want to do all of that reading there are some great examples in the linked article:

When dossiers are prepared on pro-life Christians, and information is collected on their children, that is nefarious.
When a Christian nurse is forced to participate in an abortion, that is malicious.
When a Christian family is told it cannot be foster parents because they disagree with gender ideology, that is wicked.
When Catholics are restricted from going to Mass because of unproven, and unevenly applied, restrictions due to a health scare, that is indefensible. . .
 
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For those who don't want to do all of that reading...
That appears to include you.
...there are some great examples in the linked article:
I know that sticking to your own topic means that you'd have to read the report to which you linked. But that's what people do if they want to be taken seriously. Linking to what someone else has said after they have read it doesn't really count.

Shouldn't take you long. S'only a few hundred pages. Come back tomorrow and then make your points.
 
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Not this American Christian. This Christian is aware of many Christians kidnapped and killed for their faith.
In America? Because that's what this report is about. Which you should know. Because you quoted it in your OP. And hopefully read it. Right?
 
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In America? Because that's what this report is about. Which you should know. Because you quoted it in your OP. And hopefully read it. Right?
My comment was about ALL persecution of Christians. I was not the one confused. Right?
 
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My comment was about ALL persecution of Christians. I was not the one confused. Right?

You can't conflate persecution of Christians in places like India or Africa with "persecution" that happens in the US, which often is very much marginal cases where the substance is genuinely contested and trivial in impact in comparison.
 
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My comment was about ALL persecution of Christians. I was not the one confused. Right?
Do you think that Christians are persecuted in America in any significant way?
 
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My comment was about ALL persecution of Christians.
From the op (you know, the one that you posted):

'“As our report lays out, the Biden Administration’s actions devastated the lives of many Christian Americans'.

That's what the thread is about. That report is about the so-called persecution of Christians in America. Not what happens elsewhere. I'm pretty certain that if you started a thread on the problems of immigration into the US then you'd immediately start complaining if I started listing all the positives that other countries have received from immigrants. 'Excuse me, the op was specifically talking about the US!'

Let's keep inside your borders, shall we?
 
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Not this American Christian. This Christian is aware of many Christians kidnapped and killed for their faith.
A valid point, but unrelated to what the report shows about the 'plight' of Christians in the US.
 
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From the op (you know, the one that you posted):

'“As our report lays out, the Biden Administration’s actions devastated the lives of many Christian Americans'.

That's what the thread is about. That report is about the so-called persecution of Christians in America. Not what happens elsewhere. I'm pretty certain that if you started a thread on the problems of immigration into the US then you'd immediately start complaining if I started listing all the positives that other countries have received from immigrants. 'Excuse me, the op was specifically talking about the US!'

Let's keep inside your borders, shall we?

That kind of dishonest propaganda sadly is very common in American politics now days. People propagate this kind of nonsense without a twinge of conscience.
 
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For those who don't want to do all of that reading there are some great examples in the linked article:

When dossiers are prepared on pro-life Christians, and information is collected on their children, that is nefarious.

Which, according to the report, was performed by non-government organsations. And contributed to at least 23 people going to prison for violation of federal laws (and multiple other ongoing indicitements, which the Trump DoJ dropped for political/ideological reasons).

"These dossiers contained personally identifying information, such as addresses,
photographs (including of spouses and minor children), names of associates and affiliated ministries, information about their upcoming travel plans or planned protests, and even drivers’ license numbers."

(I'll note that this verbiage was lifted directly from an earlier report by the 'Weaponization Task Force'. How lazy).

When a Christian nurse is forced to participate in an abortion, that is malicious.

Which, according to the report, occured in 2018. Remind me, who was the President then?

When a Christian family is told it cannot be foster parents because they disagree with gender ideology, that is wicked.

The Biden Administration Department of Health and Human Services sought to ensure that LGBTQ+ children were placed in foster care that included "a “supportive environment,” relevant provider training, and facilitation of “access to age- or developmentally appropriate supportive resources and services.”

To do so, it applied the (Trump Administration's) Religious Freedom Restoration Act equally to all foster care and adoption assistance programs and withdraw the exemptions that the Trump Administration had granted to faith-based organisations that allowed them to bypass the normal non-discrimination rules.

Religious adoption organisations were no longer able to discriminate against same-sex and non-Christian couples and still get federal money. And, they were also held to the same rules around "safe and proper care" that non-religious organisations held to.

In other words, the positive discrimination they enjoyed was revoked and the rules were applied to all organisations - secular or religious - equally.

When Catholics are restricted from going to Mass because of unproven, and unevenly applied, restrictions due to a health scare, that is indefensible. . .

"Health scare".

COVID-19 killed more Americans than every war the US has fought combined except for the civil war. If I rolled my eyes any harded you could replace all the wind farms the Trump Administration has payed more than $2 billion not to operate.

Those restrictions were applied UNIFORMLY. Jews were barred from their synagouges, Muslims were barred from their mosques, Buddhists were barred from their temples and Evangelicals were barred from their mega-churches.
 
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When dossiers are prepared on pro-life Christians, and information is collected on their children, that is nefarious.
It’s also not happening. People are not being tracked simply for being anti-abortion or anti-reproductive health.
When a Christian nurse is forced to participate in an abortion, that is malicious.
If a nurse can’t provide basic care to a person, they need to find a new job. They’re supposed to be patient focused and attending to their needs, not using their job as a platform to browbeat their ideology into the masses.

When a Christian family is told it cannot be foster parents because they disagree with gender ideology, that is wicked.
Why would a family who disagree with gender ideology want a child who represents what they’re against? Is the plan to take a child who already is dealing with some sort of massive trauma and rail on them until they are totally broken? Have them be pulled from a home where they weren’t cared for only to be put into another one that won’t care for them?
When Catholics are restricted from going to Mass because of unproven, and unevenly applied, restrictions due to a health scare, that is indefensible. . .
A pandemic that’s killed between 7-21 million people worldwide is not a “health scare.” And the only reason restrictions were unevenly applied is because of leadership failures. People who touted horse medicine over actual proven science by actual proven techniques to minimize mortality.
 
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