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This really makes me mad. We have a First Amendment and the separation of Church and State as part of the Bill of Rights. The concept that we need to favor christianity or that christians are being discriminated against is really stupid and wrong.
Trump administration officials could be focused on anti-religion bias within the government, but theyre instead focused only on anti-Christian bias.
https://bsky.app/profile/paperbackwriter71.bsky.social/post/3lnj33anmbc22
This bitch is insane and I dont understand their constant obsession with religion, not a single one of them is a practicing Christian
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/bondi-launches-dubious-task-force-eradicate-anti-christian-bias-us-gov-rcna202663
Evidently, these werent just random memos. The Washington Post reported:
Attorney General Pam Bondi on Tuesday convened the first meeting of a task force President Donald Trump has charged with searching for and eradicating what hes described as anti-Christian bias within federal agencies and regulatory practices. Joined by other Cabinet officials, Bondi kicked off the session by attacking the administration of former president Joe Biden, who she said had abused and targeted Christians.
So, a few things.
First, the idea that Biden a devout and lifelong church-going Roman Catholic abused and targeted Christians is absurd and beneath the office of the attorney general. Indeed, congressional Republicans spent much of the former presidents term raising similar allegations, but an inspector generals report found no evidence to support the claims.
If Bondi has new evidence to support her partisan attacks, shes kept it to herself.
Second, its hard not to notice the faith-specific drive of this new administrative task force. The attorney general and her colleagues arent focused on anti-religion bias within the government; theyre focused only on anti-Christian bias within the government.
The Posts report noted, [E]ven before the groups inaugural meeting, critics have assailed its mission as a bald attempt by government to elevate one faith over others and to rewrite recent history under the guise of protecting religious freedoms. Given the circumstances, its not hard to conclude that these critics have a point.....
Also on hand for the inaugural meeting of this group was Small Business Administration chief Kelly Loeffler, Deputy Treasury Secretary Michael Faulkende, White House Domestic Policy Council Vince Haley, and a variety of leading officials from the Justice Department, FEMA, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and Office of Management and Budget.
Given the inconvenient fact that the task force is focused on a problem that doesnt appear to exist, that was quite a turnout.
I am a Jew and I love and respect the First Amendment. There is no discrimination against christians or christianity in the real world. This is a stunt to play to the nut jobs who make up the trump base.

LetMyPeopleVote
(161,888 posts)walkingman
(9,106 posts)Better go buy a cross and get one of those fish for my vehicle ☮
Irish_Dem
(68,459 posts)And decorate the house and car with Christian symbols.
And wear big crosses.
Irish_Dem
(68,459 posts)This is clearly a nation with an emphasis on Christianity.
I was raised Christian but I am getting really fed up with this crap.
progressoid
(51,290 posts)electric_blue68
(20,971 posts)Baitball Blogger
(49,847 posts)no_hypocrisy
(51,251 posts)The Freedom From Religion Foundation decries the latest effort by Attorney General Pam Bondi and the Trump administration to promote Christian nationalism under the misleading pretense of combating anti-Christian bias.
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FFRF rejects this framing as both disingenuous and dangerous. The creation of this task force is part of a larger effort by the Trump administration to distort the idea of religious freedom in order to justify unconstitutional religious favoritism and dismantle the wall of separation between church and state.
This task force isnt about preventing discrimination its about weaponizing the federal government to push a Christian nationalist agenda, says FFRF Co-President Annie Laurie Gaylor. There is no epidemic of anti-Christian bias in the United States. If anything, its religious minorities and the nonreligious who face institutional exclusion. This is a political project, not a civil rights one.