Why Was Biden Administration Anti-Christian?

The liberty principle for this Freedom Friday is the move by President Donald Trump to eradicate anti-Christian bias in the federal government. According to Trump, the Biden administration “engaged in an egregious pattern of targeting peaceful Christians while ignoring violent, anti-Christian offenses.”

Trump pledged that his administration would not “tolerate this abuse of government.” He then announced that he was establishing a Task Force with the job of eradicating anti-Christian bias. It is no surprise that Trump’s announcement met with condemnation from the Left.

Tyler O’Neil reported on the announcement in his article at The Daily Signal. He said that the responses from the Left “serve to underscore the reasons such a task force is necessary in the first place.” 

Trump cited numerous examples of anti-Christian bias, which these critics largely ignored. He noted that pro-life Christians received multiyear prison sentences for peacefully protesting at abortion centers, while the Biden Justice Department largely ignored hundreds of attacks on Catholic churches and pro-life pregnancy resource centers. He noted the notorious FBI Richmond, Virginia, memo that suggested traditional Catholics represented a domestic terrorism threat. He also cited the Health and Human Services Department’s move to force transgender orthodoxy in foster care. Finally, the president noted that the Biden administration declared Ester Sunday “Transgender Day of Visibility.”

These actions may seem irrelevant to secularists who balk at the idea of saying “Merry Christmas,” but they represent a federal government demonizing Christians while at the same time favoring their ideological opponents.

Critics often dismiss the idea of anti-Christian bias. After all, about 63% of Americans self-identify as Christian, according to the Pew Research Center. How could the government be biased against the majority of Americans?

Such criticisms obscure the real phenomenon. Most Americans may identify as Christian, but far fewer actually attend church, read the Bible regularly, and follow what Scripture teaches even when it is unpopular. Until quite recently, the Left’s approach to social issues has been in the driver’s seat in the culture – and in many mainline Protestant and even some Catholic churches….

Many of those who claim the Biden administration didn’t target Christians focus on Biden’s self-identification as a Roman Catholic and the fact that Biden regularly attends Mass. Yet Biden and the bureaucrats in his administration firmly supported abortion and gender ideology. Their policies alienated and even demonized conservative Christians who disagree with their positions on those issues.