In April, U.S. Attorney General Pamela Bondi hosted the inaugural meeting of the Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias in the federal government.
President Trump established the task force earlier this year via executive order. The task force’s purpose is to “protect the religious freedoms of Americans and end the anti-Christian weaponization of government.”
In recent years news outlets and congressional testimony have alleged that government policies and departments have been weaponized against conservative and Christian organizations.
The U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee and the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government released reports last year that found:
- After the events of January 6, 2021, federal law enforcement officials from the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) and the FBI initiated multiple discussions with financial institutions to discuss ways financial institutions could share customer information with federal law enforcement outside of normal legal processes.
- Law enforcement and private institutions shared intelligence through a web portal run by the Domestic Security Alliance Council — a partnership led by the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security.
- The U.S. Treasury Department gave banks and other financial institutions guiding “typologies” — patterns that could be used to identify suspicious people or activities — including search terms and patterns like “TRUMP” and “MAGA”, and encouraged financial institutions to comb through transactions for terms like, “Bass Pro Shops,” “Cabela’s,” and “Dick’s Sporting Goods” when looking for “Homegrown Violent Extremism.”
- “Americans doing nothing other than shopping or exercising their Second Amendment rights were being tracked by financial institutions and federal law enforcement.”
Last year, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote a letter to the U.S. House Judiciary Committee saying the Biden administration “pressured” his teams to censor content related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
We have written before about how in 2021, Facebook disabled Family Council’s advertising account with virtually no notice or explanation, and our credit card processor abruptly terminated our account after designating us as “high risk.” In both cases, we were left to wonder if our conservative principles played a role in the cancellations.
We applaud the federal government for taking steps to prevent anti-Christian bias in the federal government. No one should face discrimination for their faith.
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