DOJ Task Force Report Details Biden-Era Effort To Punish Christians

The task force, which convened in April 2025 under a presidential executive order to “eradicate anti-Christian bias,” involves 17 federal agencies with the mission to identify and rectify “any conduct, policies, or practices that target Christians.”

The 200-page report and more than 300 additional pages of exhibits show the Biden administration “pushed” a radical policy agenda that “infringed on Christian beliefs” and deep personal matters important to every American, such as “life, family, marriage, self-identity, education, medical decisions, and more,” reads a Department of Justice press release.

According to the release, the task force conducted a “thorough review of internal discussions, case files, prosecutorial decisions” and met with more than 100 stakeholders and victims in its review. The report highlights a “broad array” of findings at the federal, state, and even some local levels and in the private sector of how federal policies affected conscience rights, the Johnson Amendment, girls’ sports, vaccine mandates, fines for Christian universities, and exclusion of Christians from public programs, and more.

The report’s executive summary lists 14 key findings:

• Key Finding 1: The Biden DOJ pursued aggressive prosecutions against non-violent, pro-life, Christian demonstrators under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act but responded less aggressively to violent attacks against pregnancy resource centers.
• Key Finding 2: The Biden Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) investigated, monitored, tracked, and scrutinized traditional Catholics who had engaged in no criminal misconduct.
• Key Finding 3: The Biden Internal Revenue Service (IRS) investigated churches because of what their pastors preached and Christian organizations because they applied biblical teachings to daily life.
• Key Finding 4: The Biden Department of Education (ED) focused its enforcement actions against Christian universities, levying enormous fines that dwarfed the penalties for Larry Nassar’s and Jerry Sandusky’s sexual assaults.
• Key Finding 5: The Biden Health and Human Services (HHS) and DOJ scaled back ongoing enforcement efforts to vindicate conscience rights, withdrawing a notice of violation against the University of Vermont Medical Center after it coerced a Christian nurse into participating in an abortion despite her religious objections.
• Key Finding 6: The Biden Administration was one of the loudest supporters of a congressional proposal that would eliminate religious protections for Christians and other religions that hold traditional social values.
• Key Finding 7: Even though Congress rejected a similar attempt, the Biden Administration tried to mandate the adoption of its views on sexual orientation and gender ideology, with limited religious exceptions.
• Key Finding 8: Because it viewed traditional Christian values as harmful to children with gender dysphoria or same-sex attraction, the Biden HHS took multiple steps to prevent Christian families from living out their religious beliefs.
• Key Finding 9: The Biden Administration took a dismissive approach to conscience rights and religious accommodation rights on the issue of abortion.
• Key Finding 10: The Biden Administration sidelined Christians in favor of their preferred constituencies.
• Key Finding 11: The Biden Administration ignored human rights crises that affected Christians.
• Key Finding 12: The Biden Administration denied Christians and faith-based organizations equal access to government services, benefits, and programs.
• Key Finding 13: Biden agencies’ religious accommodation process often functionally penalized Christians who sought to exercise their religious rights.
• Key Finding 14: The Biden Administration regulated and suppressed religious speech that it did not like and curtailed Christians’ ability to jointly worship and study the Bible.

“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.”

The report also highlights how the Trump administration is protecting the rights of Christians. The administration is making efforts to:

• Keep school districts from unlawfully forcing gender ideology on students who have sincerely held religious beliefs on marriage and sexuality.
• End the weaponization of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act that was used to prosecute peaceful pro-life protestors, and use it to protect houses of worship from violence.
• Protect religious liberty in the workplace by affirming religious accommodation requests.

Liberty Counsel Founder and Chairman Mat Staver said, “The Biden administration displayed unprecedented hostility toward Christians. The federal government should never again be a weapon against people of faith but should always be a shield for religious liberty.”