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The final report from Trump’s “Anti-Christian Bias” task force reveals… nothing
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The White House’s ridiculously named “Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias” has just released its final report summarizing all the ways Christians are persecuted in America and how we can fix it.
It’s as absurd as you’d imagine.
A quick history here: Last year, Donald Trump signed an executive order establishing this group and the commission really only had one job: Putting out a report highlighting any “unlawful anti-Christian policies, practices, or conduct by an agency” and suggesting how to fix them.
The Task Force was filled with the brightest minds in the Administration. Which is to say they had one brain cell that was passed back and forth between each other.
Was it all symbolic? Perhaps. But it could be useful if experts on the subject were coming together to offer the administration a guide on how to overcome serious obstacles to religious liberty.
Unfortunately, this commission wasn’t filled with religious liberty experts. It was filled with right-wing Christian crusaders who treat religious neutrality as anti-Christian persecution. And who quote Pulp Fiction when they mean to quote the Bible.
You would think the people who make up the most popular religion in the country, and 87% of Congress, and 98% of elected Republicans are doing just fine. Complaining that Christians have it rough is like saying the problem with racism in America is that it really hurts white people. But as we’ve seen with the recent Supreme Court ruling eviscerating the Voting Rights Act, that’s very much what these people believe.
When the Task Force held its first meeting last April, it was obvious where this was going. Attendees included several notable right-wing Christians, including Pastor Paula White-Cain, homeschooling advocate Michael Farris, and the provost of Liberty University. You just knew they were going to compile a list of conservative Christian grievances—How dare anyone say “Happy Holidays” instead of “Merry Christmas”?—not an actual list of federal biases that exist against Christians, much less ways to fix anything, because no such thing exists.
Their preliminary report, issued last September, was nothing more than a collection of complaints from various Cabinet departments along with a preamble that laughably claimed there was “a consistent and systematic pattern of discrimination against Christians during the Biden Administration.”
But now their final report has been released. It’s 565 pages aimed at an audience of Christian extremists who have no idea how religious pluralism ought to work. It’s also full of lies and exaggerations about how Christians are supposedly persecuted in the country. (The substance of the report is under 200 pages.)
The executive summary sums up just how pointless this whole exercise was by repeating the lies underlying Christian Nationalism: “Our Nation’s origin and system of government bear the imprint of a Christian worldview and ethic, even as its laws protect religious pluralism.” Hilariously, they admit the Biden Administration “generally tolerated religious beliefs that were privately held” but insist that Christians got in trouble when they demanded the ability to “act in accordance with their faith.”
Well… yeah. If your religion tells you to do something discriminatory or ignore generally applicable rules (like vaccine mandates), and you work for the government, too damn bad.
But what examples do they actually give of this discrimination?
There are 14 “Key Findings” and each one is dumber than the last.
Key Finding 1: The Biden DOJ pursued aggressive prosecutions against non-violent, prolife, Christian demonstrators under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act but responded less aggressively to violent attacks against pregnancy resource centers.
They’re upset that the Department of Justice under Biden targeted Christian protesters who blocked access to abortion clinics. Not because they opposed abortion but because they blocked access to abortion clinics.
That’s not anti-Christian discrimination at all.
Key Finding 2: The Biden Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) investigated, monitored, tracked, and scrutinized traditional Catholics who had engaged in no criminal misconduct.
I’ve written before about how this story is bullshit. Basically, an internal FBI memo pointed out that a guy they were looking at as a potential terror threat hung out at a church that described itself as Catholic but wasn’t formally affiliated with the Catholic Church. He also appeared to be recruiting members for a possible attack. When a couple of FBI analysts wrote up their report on this guy, they noted the link between his extremism and his faith, though they pointed out this guy was on their radar before he ever joined that church.
Those analysts later found that there were other men on the FBI’s radar that had similar extremist ideologies and belonged to a similar church. So they noted there might be a link there worth investigating. But higher-ups in the FBI rescinded that report saying it “failed to adhere to FBI standards” because of a number of other errors in it and that the agency did not conduct investigations “based on religious affiliation.” (It should be noted that the draft report was never even made public, but it was leaked to a right-wing outlet before it could even be scrutinized.)
That’s not anti-Christian bias. It was a valid documentation of a potentially dangerous phenomenon. (It wasn’t even against the Catholic Church, but rather a potentially extremist sect calling itself Catholic!) Yet the DoJ cited it as an example of the Biden administration targeting people of faith while leaving out the details that would have justified those actions.
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.
This never happened. By this point, it’s well-documented how right-wing pastors constantly violate the Johnson Amendment—by promoting political candidates from the pulpit—but face no consequences because of it. There’s no evidence of the IRS targeting churches because of what pastors preach. (Notice also that they say “investigated” and not “punished.” There’s nothing wrong with looking into potential violations of the law.)
And the word-salad description of how Christian groups were targeted “because they applied biblical teachings to daily life” is nonsense. The report says the IRS denied a non-profit tax exemption to one (just one) political group that justified its planned campaign interventions by invoking biblical language. Even if you believe that’s the wrong decision—it’s not—it’s literally one example. Not evidence of an anti-Christian trend.
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.
Neither penalty was an example of “anti-Christian bias.”
In 2023, Biden’s DoE levied a $37.7 million fine against Grand Canyon University because there was ample evidence that the school lowballed its tuition fees to reel students in… before hitting them with larger fees once they were already taking classes (and it was therefore harder to leave).
The government laid out, with plenty of detail, how the school lied about tuition on its website, its enrollment agreement, the “Net Price Calculator” that students could use online to figure out how much they would owe, and other marketing materials. This wasn’t, in other words, some accident on one page of GCU’s website; it was clearly a purposeful move to attract students before gouging them later.
But the Trump administration rescinded that penalty because it doesn’t give a shit about students who were defrauded by the school.
What about Liberty University? They were fined $14 million for violating the Clery Act, meaning the school created a culture where students were afraid to report sexual violence and didn’t do nearly enough to let students know about threats on campus. A consultant who spoke to the Washington Post said it was “the single most blistering Clery report I have ever read. Ever.” (For the sake of comparison, the largest-ever Clery fine issued before that was $4.5 million to Michigan State for failing to address Larry Nassar’s sexual abuse.)
Punishing schools for not taking sexual assault seriously and for jacking up tuition costs after students have enrolled was never ideological. Biden wasn’t weaponizing the government to go after Christian schools. His administration did the kind of oversight it’s required to do of any school that receives taxpayer money—and both Liberty and GCU benefit from government-funded student loans.
In other words, the Biden administration didn’t target Christian schools. They went after schools that were screwing over their own students, and two of those schools happened to be Christian.
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.
In this case, in 2017, the University of Vermont Medical Center began offering elective abortions but said staff members who objected didn’t have to participate. They just needed to let the school know if they objected to “medically necessary” abortions, elective abortions, or all abortions. But if the school couldn’t arrange for someone else to take your place, then the expectation was that you would help out to make sure patients were taken care of. A Catholic nurse was later put in a situation where she had to help out with an abortion procedure against her objections.
The Biden Administration later helped the school develop a policy that protected patients and allowed staffers to refrain from those procedures. That’s good, right? Not to the Task Force, which said the Biden people weren’t as deferential to religious staffers as they could have been because they “resolved active enforcement matters through administrative means, if possible, rather than litigation.” Right… because not everything has to go through the courts. Sometimes, you can just take care of things yourself. That’s not anti-Christian bias.
Other items on the list of Key Findings point to policy positions taken by the Biden Administration that basically boil down to laws that conservatives don’t like. If taxpayer dollars went to foster care agencies, for example, Biden’s people wanted to make sure potential parents weren’t making life worse for LGBTQ children. But the Task Force calls this anti-Christian.
There’s also this:
Key Finding 10: The Biden Administration sidelined Christians in favor of their preferred constituencies.
They seriously cite the example of Biden issuing a proclamation in 2024 celebrating the Transgender Day of Visibility on March 31, just as he did in 2021 and 2022 and 2023, saying that trans people were “part of the fabric of our Nation” and that we need to “work toward eliminating violence and discrimination based on gender identity.”
In 2024, however, March 31 coincidentally overlapped with Easter. So conservatives pretended that the Transgender Day of Visibility proclamation was anti-Christian… as if Biden picked the date as a middle finger to his own religion.
Key Finding 13: Biden agencies’ religious accommodation process often functionally penalized Christians who sought to exercise their religious rights.
This one claims the Biden Administration targeted Christians who were just practicing their faith… when the reality is that, when COVID vaccines were finally available, the government wanted federal employees to get vaccinated and they didn’t offer blanket exceptions for Christians who believed anti-vax conspiracy theories. Which was the right move because vaccines work and not getting vaccinated puts everyone in harm’s way.
You get the idea.
Some of the biggest examples of “anti-Christian bias” in this report aren’t systemic attacks on religion at all, but just examples of Christians behaving badly and getting punished for it. Apparently, Christians should be allowed to get away with anything they want under the Trump Administration.
The report concludes:
The Task Force found that, in its zealous pursuit of its preferred policies and constituents, the Biden Administration engaged in anti-Christian bias, seeking to limit Christians’ ability to act in concert with their sincerely held beliefs in their homes, in the workplace, and in the public square. At times, it went still further, leading Christians to reportedly choose between their beliefs and compliance with federal law. And, most troublingly, the Biden Administration is alleged to have prosecuted and jailed peaceful Christian pro-life demonstrators, terminated or harassed Christian workers who did not comply with the vaccine mandates, targeted Christian organizations with IRS inquiries, and subjected Christian schools to excessive fines. Taken together, the findings presented by the Task Force raise serious concerns about whether certain Biden-era policies and practices were administered in a manner consistent with the Constitution and applicable federal law. These concerns implicate core American commitments—religious liberty, equal treatment, and the rule of law—that protect all Americans of faith and conscience.
It’s all bullshit. This entire idiotic charade just shows how the Biden Administration wasn’t waging war on Christianity at all, but rather treating Christians the same way they did everyone else and not allowing claims of “But Mah Religion” to override health and safety and generally applicable laws.
Unfortunately, we now live under a regime full of powerful conservative Christians who want to weaponize victimhood to shield themselves from accountability.
To call any of this persecution is an insult to the very concept of oppression.
This report is not evidence of discrimination; it is evidence of entitlement. These Republicans don’t give a damn about freedom of religion. All they want is freedom from consequence. They want right-wing Christians to be allowed to operate above the law, unchallenged and unaccountable.
To state the obvious, ”anti-Christian bias” shouldn’t be ignored. Neither should bias against any other group. If it happens in a government agency, it should be punished. The problem here is the underlying theory that Christians suffer more discrimination than other religious groups.
If these are the best examples of anti-Christian discrimination they have, they’ve got nothing. They’re just proving what many of us have been arguing for years: Cries of anti-Christian persecution in America are not about protecting faith, but about protecting power.
Americans United for Separation of Church and State called out the uselessness of this report:
“The Executive Summary alone confirms what we have been saying all along: The administration’s claims that it has uncovered extensive evidence of anti-Christian bias within the federal government are unfounded. Instead, the report just repeats the misleading examples the Trump administration has been using since Day 1. The task force is doing exactly what we expected: imposing its narrow view of Christianity on the country and attacking freedom and equality, especially for women and LGBTQ+ Americans.
The Freedom From Religion Foundation said this was a “political document masquerading as a civil rights analysis.”
“The bogus findings of the ‘Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias’ were always a foregone conclusion,” says FFRF Co-President Annie Laurie Gaylor, “since the purpose of the task force was to presume and look for bias against only one class, conservative Christians, and seek to expand protections only for them.”
The Interfaith Alliance’s Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush said the Trump Administration ought to look in a mirror:
“Trump’s radical DOJ’s new report is abominably hypocritical. To find anti-Christian bias, the Trump administration should look in the mirror at its own targeting of Christian communities and leaders who dare to oppose its extreme agenda. From attacking Pope Leo to Bishop Budde to so many others, this president has repeatedly threatened and clashed with many of the most prominent Christian denominations in our country.
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Given President Trump’s own very public disrespect for Easter – and shocking portrayal of himself as a Christ-like figure in social media posts – the idea that his administration is somehow prioritizing the traditions and values of the Christian faith is absurd. Reports and stunts like this are meant to distract from the admin’s persecution of millions of Americans – including the many Black Christians across the South whose civil rights and political freedoms are directly targeted by yesterday’s Supreme Court ruling.
They make solid points. If you want real examples of Christians getting harassed for their beliefs, you won’t find them in this report. In January, just after Trump was inaugurated, a religious leader politely asked Trump to follow Jesus and have mercy on the marginalized. Republicans responded to Bishop Mariann Budde by saying she should be “added to the deportation list” (she was born in New Jersey), implied that she was an idiot, and insisted that she was bad at her job.
More recently, Trump has threatened to deport millions of Christian immigrants.
Those are far more direct examples of anti-Christian bias than anything you’ll find in this report. If you want to protect Christianity, you’d be better off ridding the administration of all the people who make Christianity look bad… which is damn near everyone.
And if you think the Trump Administration is interested in leveling the playing field for Christians, you’ve been lied to. They want to make sure “I’m Christian” is always an acceptable excuse for certain people to get away with anything they want, whether it’s ignoring civil rights laws, putting patients in danger, or promoting bigotry with taxpayer dollars. That’s the only kind of Christianity they care about.
It’s not like they have examples of Christians wanting to help the poor only to be stymied by Democrats.
This Task Force was always a sham and this report proves it.
For what it’s worth, the Task Force says one more report will be published next year outlining policy recommendations for the future.
(Portions of this article were published earlier)
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A Satanist just won a religious exemption for bathroom access in school
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A high school student in Colorado just obtained a religious accommodation to get around what she claims are her district’s restrictive bathroom access rules. But we’re not talking about a Christian student complaining about transgender students using the facilities or anything like that.
The issue dates back to February when the Elizabeth School District introduced a system called Minga that essentially offers digital hall passes. It tracks students who leave their classes to go off-campus or go to the bathroom. Students sign out on their own and the system logs where they’re going and how long they’re gone.
As just about any teacher can tell you, there are always students who insist they need to go to the bathroom during your time together, who leave class much longer than they should be gone, who might lie about where they’re going or what they’re doing, etc. Trying to manage all that while still respecting students’ rights is always a predicament—especially when there’s no paper trail—and every school has different ways of dealing with students who abuse the privilege.
The Minga system is meant to take that pressure off teachers while still offering accountability. It also allows schools to know where students might be in case of emergencies.
In February, Michelle Thompson, a mother of an Elizabeth High School student, told the school board she was concerned about how Minga would impact kids’ “physical health, overall well-being, and dignity” because it was already denying students—including her daughter—the ability to go to the bathroom when needed: “Our child’s ability to independently meet a basic biological need has effectively been restricted.”
She added that, even though she was assured parents would have the right to opt their kids out of the Minga system, the district’s administration was denying her that option.
The district didn’t budge, so in March, Matt Kezhaya, a lawyer for The Satanic Temple, sent a letter to the district demanding Thompson’s daughter (“ST”) be allowed to opt out of the system. They specifically said she was denied the ability to leave class even though she was on her period:
By its very nature, the [Minga] system requires ST to subordinate her bodily needs to institutional permission and surveillance. On Mondays, all requests to use the bathroom are denied. The bathroom is available to only three children at a time, and then only for up to five minutes under threat of forcible removal by a security guard.
On February 2, 2026, these restrictions caused ST to have a bleed-through accident because she was unable to tend to her menses. This caused such shame and embarrassment that she now refuses to use the restrooms while at the school.
(One reason bathroom requests might be denied on Mondays is because there’s a shortened class schedule that day.)
The Satanic Temple pointed out that Thompson had repeatedly asked the district for a religious accommodation but was denied—something administrators can only do if they have a legally compelling reason to do so. The lawyer demanded to know those reasons:
As you hold the burden of justifying the refusal of a religious accommodation, please respond with a statement of all compelling interests requiring the District to refuse Ms. Thompson’s demanded religious accommodation, as well as statement of those facts that support why the refusal is narrowly tailored to achieve those interests.
The lawyer also referenced the Supreme Court’s 2025 ruling in Mahmoud v. Taylor, a case that gave religious parents the ability to remove their kids from class if the instruction conflicted with their faith.
At the heart of the argument was the claim that Thompson and her child were Satanists, so this wasn’t some made-up excuse. They even had a faith-based rule that allowed them to get around the Minga system—the same rule Satanists have tried to use to get around abortion restrictions.
Ms. Thompson is raising [her child] in the beliefs and practices of TST. As part of this religious upbringing, Thompson and ST both adhere to TST’s Seven Fundamental Tenets.
The Third Tenet provides:
One’s body is inviolable, subject to one’s own will alone.
Pursuant to the Third Tenet, TST’s adherents believe that natural bodily functions are sacred, and any institutional efforts to control those sacred functions should be resisted. See also TST’s Second Tenet (“The struggle for justice is an ongoing and necessary pursuit that should prevail over laws and institutions.”)
The bathroom monitoring system interferes with ST’s adherence to the Third Tenet and requires accommodation…
Beyond those statements, the letter read exactly like something you’d see from a conservative Christian legal group, saying that the family’s religious views gave them a special right to get around a general rule. The letter even noted that the district offered exceptions for people with medical or disability-related reasons, therefore it was illegal to deny those same exceptions to anyone who had a religious justification for opting out of the Minga system.
That argument worked.
On March 19, the district told Kezhaya that Thompson’s daughter would be granted a religious accommodation.
… the District will exempt ST from the Minga system for purposes of restroom access, allowing her to leave the classroom for the restroom at any time and for any duration without logging her departure in the system. In place of a digital hall pass, ST will be provided a laminated physical pass for her exclusive use, which she will present to her teacher upon leaving and return upon coming back to class. ST will remain subject to the Minga system for all other out-of-classroom purposes, including visits to the counselor, library, and main office as implemented at Elizabeth High School.
(As part of the agreement, ST’s parents have to sign a waiver saying the district will not be held accountable “for any consequences that may flow from ST’s unmonitored movement through the building.”)
The bottom line here? Satanists secured a religious accommodation to a public school district policy by pointing to one of their Seven Fundamental Tenets. If Christians can get away with the religious accommodation excuse when it comes to reading challenging books or learning about sexuality in a health class, there’s no reason Satanists can’t apply the same logic when it comes to something sensible.
The same legal playbook that’s been used to privilege Christianity is now being used to protect a Satanist’s right to control her own body in a public school.
Eliphaz Costus, the Campaign Director for The Satanic Temple’s “Protect Children Project,” told me in a statement that the district was right to accommodate their client:
This was a cut and dry case of our religious right to bodily autonomy being violated by an invasive digital system. I’m thrilled we could successfully advocate on this family’s behalf and I hope this will establish a precedent for other TST student members to be exempted from Minga bathroom controls.
It’s sad that the easiest way to secure dignity in a public institution is to claim it’s a religious mandate, but if those are the rules, then they need to apply to everyone across the board. The district hasn’t said anything about why it denied ST’s reasonable request before her family brought up their faith, but now that they have, it’s virtually impossible to reject if the district wants to avoid a lawsuit.
The Christian Right helped build this world. Will any of them complain now that Satanists are using the rulebook those Christian wrote to their own benefit?
Trump replaces Navy Secretary with man who claimed witches took over a California city
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On Wednesday, Navy Secretary John Phelan was booted from his job, presumably after clashes with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. It was a shocking dismissal given that the country is currently mired in a Trump-fueled battle centered around the Strait of Hormuz. But while Phelan didn’t come into the job with any relevant experience—he was a Trump donor who founded an investment firm—his replacement may be even worse.
The new Acting Navy Secretary is Hung Cao, an anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist best known for his failed attempt to unseat Senator Tim Kaine in Virginia’s 2024 Senate race. Which came after a failed attempt to unseat a Democratic congresswoman in 2022, a campaign in which he compared abortion to the Nazi regime, saying “The Nazis did this. They’ll take Jewish babies and just take the legs and just smash the babies and kill them. You think that can’t happen in this country?”
Or perhaps he’ll now be best known as the guy who insisted in 2023 that witches had taken over Monterey, California. He made the comments in an interview with fellow anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist Sean Feucht.
… We can’t let it turn like this. There’s a place in Monterey, California called “Lovers Point.” The original name was “Lovers of Christ Point,” but now it’s become–they took out the Christ—it’s “Lovers Point.” And it’s really—Monterey is a very dark place now. A lot of witchcraft and the Wiccan community has really taken over there. We can’t let that happen to Virginia.
For what it’s worth, the Monterey County Historical Society says “Lovers of Jesus Point” (not “Christ”) was named that way in the 1870s by a man who wanted to create a “Christian Seaside Resort” in Pacific Grove (not Monterey). It was secularized much later.
But Wiccans have not “taken over” Monterey. (One local media outlet quoted a resident who said, “There used to be a witches Meetup group but they haven’t met in a couple of years.”)
Also, changing the name of an area of land to something secular doesn’t mean the world is ending.
And Lovers Point looks pretty damn amazing today.
While Cao has some military experience, unlike his predecessor, there’s no reason to think he won’t use his platform to spread even more lies, much like everyone else in this administration. As a public figure, he’s never chosen the side of honesty and responsibility, so there’s no reason to think he’ll suddenly do that now.
It’s truly incredible that there are people in this administration who have claimed to teleport to a Waffle House, cut off the penis of a dead raccoon, and accidentally quoted Pulp Fiction during a work-time sermon, which means Cao’s claim of a witch takeover makes him one of the more sane members of this administration.
Hell, perhaps the Navy is the perfect place for him since he’s a fan of “crone warfare.”
But in case you think Cao is relatively harmless, keep in mind that his wife April Lakata Cao is an all-out racist, based on things she wrote on her “The Conservative Parent” blog:
… she once told former President Barack Obama to “stay in Africa.”
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… Cao intimated Muslims should be killed (“peace those Muslims,” she wrote), dipped her toes in the discussion around Obama’s nationality and race, said Black Obama administration officials were racist, and shared conspiratorial InfoWars posts about the Department of Homeland Security arming itself against citizens.
Is there anyone in the upper tiers of this administration who isn’t a nutjob or surrounded by people who are arguably worse? Good luck finding them. The only qualifications you seem to need are a commitment to Jesus, a refusal to put ethics over loyalty, and a non-stop history of batshit crazy comments that live online.
Side note: This is somehow not the only time allegations of witchcraft have affected Republicans. In 2010, Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell released an ad insisting she wasn’t a witch after clips circulated in which she claimed she dabbled in witchcraft years earlier.
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FFRF will defend Constitution against agenda of Trump’s ‘Religious Liberty Commission’
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The Freedom From Religion Foundation is castigating the recently held final hearing of President Trump’s so-called Religious Liberty Commission.
At the seventh and (thankfully) concluding hearing held at the Museum of the Bible (a privately owned facility underwritten by Hobby Lobby) earlier this week, commissioners and witnesses repeatedly denigrated the foundational constitutional principle of state/church separation. Commission Chair and Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick called it “the biggest lie that’s been told in America since our founding.” Helen Alvaré, a professor at Antonin Scalia Law School, described the principle as “unfortunate, historically and culturally inaccurate” while openly advocating for greater integration of religion into public schools, government policy and civic life.
FFRF is putting the commission on notice that it will contest any unconstitutional proposals.
“This commission has once again made its agenda unmistakably clear,” says FFRF Co-President Annie Laurie Gaylor. “It is not about protecting religious liberty. It’s about dismantling it. But we don’t intend to let that happen.”
Patrick boasted that Texas has passed legislation requiring the posting of the Ten Commandments in every public school classroom, a mandate FFRF is actively challenging in court with our allies. Dismissing the constitutional concerns, he remarked, “Of course we’re being sued, but that’s okay. That comes with the territory.” On that point, he’s right: When government officials flout the Constitution, legal challenges are not only expected, they are necessary. FFRF is proud to be holding Texas accountable for this clear violation of the First Amendment and the right of a captive audience of schoolchildren and their parents to be free from state interference and coercion over private religious beliefs.
Over nearly five hours, commission members and witnesses advanced a series of deeply troubling ideas rooted in Christian nationalism rather than constitutional principles. Among the most egregious to undermine the wall of separation:
- A proposal to engineer a legal challenge, by encouraging the IRS to deliberately penalize a church for political activity, to the Johnson Amendment, which bars electioneering with tax-exempt funds by churches and other nonprofits.
- Claims that religious liberty originates exclusively from Christianity and that not all faiths are equal under the law.
- Suggestions to expand government funding pipelines to religious organizations without sufficient safeguards.
- Advocacy to teach children a distorted, sectarian version of American history that would erase the nation’s commitment to secular governance.
The commission, established by executive order in 2025, is expected to deliver a final report to the president next month. Based on the rhetoric and recommendations previewed at the final hearing, FFRF warns that the report will serve as a roadmap for advancing Christian nationalist policies at the federal level.
FFRF notes that these proposals are not about religious freedom, but privileging Christianity via its elevation above all other beliefs. True religious liberty requires government neutrality — neither hostility nor favoritism. If the administration attempts to implement any of these unconstitutional recommendations, FFRF will fight them, and vigorously defend the right of Americans to believe, or not believe, without government encroachment or compulsion.
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is a U.S.-based nonprofit dedicated to defending the constitutional principle of separation between state and church and educating the public on matters relating to nontheism. With more than 41,000 members, FFRF is the largest association of freethinkers (atheists, agnostics and humanists) in North America. For more information, visit ffrf.org.
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Ravenswood (W.Va.) City Council members will no longer deliver religious invocations at official meetings — thanks to the Freedom From Religion Foundation’s constitutional advocacy.
A concerned community member reported that at the Jan. 20 meeting, Council Member Todd Ritchie led a prayer to begin the public meeting. Mayor Josh Miller asked all attendees to stand, then asked either for a moment of silence for a member of the public to lead a prayer. Ritchie said he would “step out of his role” to lead the prayer, remaining at his spot on the council bench. He gave a Christian prayer, directing it to the “Heavenly Father” and ending with “in Jesus’ name we pray. Amen.”
Because a 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals precedent specifically weighed in against prayer led by local legislators, FFRF wrote a letter to the mayor asking that council-led prayers not become a practice at council meetings. As a policy, FFRF opposes any governmental prayer as exclusionary and inappropriate, and no city or county governmental body is required to open meetings with religious ritual.
“City Council members are free to pray privately or to worship on their own time in their own way,” FFRF Patrick O’Reiley Legal Fellow Charlotte R. Gude stated. “They do not need to worship on taxpayers’ time.”
Citizens, including Ravenswood’s nonreligious and minority faith citizens, may be compelled to come before the City Council on important civic matters and to participate in serious decisions affecting their livelihoods, property, children and quality of life, FFRF pointed out. Exclusively Christian prayers marginalize community members belonging to the 34 percent of West Virginians who are non-Christians, including the nearly one in three adult residents of the state who are religiously unaffiliated. It is coercive, embarrassing and intimidating for nonreligious individuals and members of minority religions to be required to make a public showing of their nonbelief (by not rising or praying) or else to display deference toward a religious sentiment in which they do not believe, but which their city council members clearly do.
Thankfully, FFRF’s work paid off.
Miller responded to the state/church watchdog’s concern noting that the city has taken action to prevent further council-led prayers. “Members of the council have been apprised of the law as a result of your correspondence and will no longer offer an invocation or prayer either prior to or during any council meeting,” Miller replied in an official letter.
FFRF is always ready to rise to the occasion when government officials misuse their position for the sake of religion.
“FFRF knows that council-led religious invocations are inherently exclusionary,” FFRF Co-President Annie Laurie Gaylor notes. “No one deserves to feel like an outsider just because one council member wants to deliver a prayer.”
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is a national nonprofit organization with over 41,000 members nationwide, including more than 100 members in West Virginia. FFRF’s purposes are to protect the constitutional principle of separation between church and state, and to educate the public on matters relating to nontheism.
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