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LetMyPeopleVote

(161,888 posts)
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 06:06 PM 11 hrs ago

Bondi launches dubious 'Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias' in U.S. government

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 they’re instead focused only on “anti-Christian bias.”
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Bondi launches dubious ‘Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias’ in U.S. government www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

This bitch is insane and I don’t 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

The first hint of things to come came two weeks ago, when State Department encouraged employees to report — even anonymously — allegations of anti-Christian bias within the agency. The Department of Veterans Affairs took a nearly identical step soon after.

Evidently, these weren’t 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 he’s 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 president’s term raising similar allegations, but an inspector general’s report found no evidence to support the claims.

If Bondi has new evidence to support her partisan attacks, she’s kept it to herself.

Second, it’s hard not to notice the faith-specific drive of this new administrative task force. The attorney general and her colleagues aren’t focused on “anti-religion bias” within the government; they’re focused only on “anti-Christian bias” within the government.

The Post’s report noted, “[E]ven before the group’s 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, it’s 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 doesn’t 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.
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Bondi launches dubious 'Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias' in U.S. government (Original Post) LetMyPeopleVote 11 hrs ago OP
The Justice Department's Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias held its first meeting today, LetMyPeopleVote 11 hrs ago #1
I guess the so-called separation of church and state is long gone. walkingman 11 hrs ago #2
Yes it will be mandatory to be a Christian. Irish_Dem 10 hrs ago #4
What the H are they talking about. Irish_Dem 11 hrs ago #3
Politcal theater. progressoid 10 hrs ago #5
Bondi? Pffffffttttttttt... electric_blue68 10 hrs ago #6
Someone turn MTG in. She was very anti-Christian when she said unkind things about Pope Francis. Baitball Blogger 9 hrs ago #7
FFRF condemns dangerous "Anti-Christian Bias" Task Force as Christian nationalist power grab no_hypocrisy 9 hrs ago #8
Some days it's almost as if TSF's crew wants to establish an official religion. nt allegorical oracle 8 hrs ago #9

walkingman

(9,106 posts)
2. I guess the so-called separation of church and state is long gone.
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 06:11 PM
11 hrs ago

Better go buy a cross and get one of those fish for my vehicle ☮

Irish_Dem

(68,459 posts)
4. Yes it will be mandatory to be a Christian.
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 06:14 PM
10 hrs ago

And decorate the house and car with Christian symbols.
And wear big crosses.

Irish_Dem

(68,459 posts)
3. What the H are they talking about.
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 06:12 PM
11 hrs ago

This is clearly a nation with an emphasis on Christianity.

I was raised Christian but I am getting really fed up with this crap.

no_hypocrisy

(51,251 posts)
8. FFRF condemns dangerous "Anti-Christian Bias" Task Force as Christian nationalist power grab
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 08:05 PM
9 hrs ago
https://ffrf.org/news/releases/ffrf-condemns-dangerous-anti-christian-bias-task-force-as-christian-nationalist-power-grab/

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.”

-snip-

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 isn’t about preventing discrimination — it’s 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, it’s religious minorities and the nonreligious who face institutional exclusion. This is a political project, not a civil rights one.”
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