A recent DOJ report is raising some serious questions about possibly anti-Christian bias during the Biden Administration. The report, entitled “Eradicating Anti-Christian Bias Within the Federal Government” is 200 pages long and includes some 300 pages of exhibits of the administration’s purported bias. The report stems from one of President Trump’s campaign promises to root out anti-Christian bias. The report alleges that the bias stemmed mostly from attempts to keep religious beliefs out of the public sector. “The Biden Administration generally tolerated religious beliefs that were privately held but zealously pursued actions to limit Christians’ ability to act in accordance with their faith,” it noted.

The report found disparate penalties were placed against pro-life and Christian organizations compared to their secular counterparts. This was particularly evident in the Biden administration’s use of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, which the administration used to jail pro-life advocates for allegedly blocking access to abortion clinics. Many of the advocates jailed during the administration were characterized as nonviolent, elderly,  or mothers and fathers separated from their families for what would normally have been considered minor offenses. President Trump would go on to pardon 23 such pro-life advocates early in his second term, stating, “They should not have been prosecuted. Many of them are elderly people.” The administration also contemplated limiting resources to pregnancy care centers, which typically offer pro-life alternatives to abortion. According to the report, the Biden administration, “questioned whether to provide pregnancy resource centers with the same resources as abortion clinics, questioning whether these facilities fall under the FACE Act’s scope.”

The report also alleges that federal agencies targeted religious employees seeking religious accommodations during the COVID-19 pandemic with “invasive scrutiny of their beliefs.” The acting Attorney General at the time, Merrick Garland, who is Jewish, denied allegations of bias during a House hearing in 2023. “The idea that someone with my family background would discriminate against any religion is so outrageous, so absurd,” he said. Jim Simpson, executive director of the Center on Faith and Justice at Georgetown University criticized the report, calling it, “advocacy dressed up as investigation.”

U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche, chair of the Task Force to Eradicate Christian Bias, blasted the treatment of Christians during the Biden administration. “No American should live in fear that the federal government will punish them for their faith,” he said. “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.”