Eradicating Anti-Christian Bias

Executive Order 14202 of February 6, 2025

Eradicating Anti-Christian Bias

By the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and the laws of the United States of
America, it is hereby ordered:

Section 1. Purpose and Policy. It is the policy of the
United States, and the purpose of this order, to
protect the religious freedoms of Americans and end the
anti-Christian weaponization of government. The
Founders established a Nation in which people were free
to practice their faith without fear of discrimination
or retaliation by their government.

For that reason, the United States Constitution
enshrines the fundamental right to religious liberty in
the First Amendment. Federal laws like the Religious
Freedom Restoration Act of 1993, as amended (42 U.S.C.
2000bb et seq.), further prohibit government
interference with Americans' rights to exercise their
religion. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as
amended (42 U.S.C. 2000e et seq.), prohibits religious
discrimination in employment while Federal hate-crime
laws prohibit offenses committed due to religious
animus.

Yet the previous Administration engaged in an egregious
pattern of targeting peaceful Christians, while
ignoring violent, anti-Christian offenses. The Biden
Department of Justice sought to squelch faith in the
public square by bringing Federal criminal charges and
obtaining in numerous cases multi-year prison sentences
against nearly two dozen peaceful pro-life Christians
for praying and demonstrating outside abortion
facilities. Those convicted included a Catholic priest
and 75-year-old grandmother, as well as an 87-year-old
woman and a father of 11 children who were arrested 18
months after praying and singing hymns outside an
abortion facility in Tennessee as a part of a
politically motivated prosecution campaign by the Biden
Administration. I rectified this injustice on January
23, 2025, by issuing pardons in these cases.

At the same time, Catholic churches, charities, and
pro-life centers sought justice for violence, theft,
and arson perpetrated against them, which the Biden
Department of Justice largely ignored. After more than
100 attacks, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a
resolution condemning this violence and calling on the
Biden Administration to enforce the law.

Then, in 2023, a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
memorandum asserted that “radical-traditionalist”
Catholics were domestic-terrorism threats and suggested
infiltrating Catholic churches as “threat
mitigation.” This later-retracted FBI memorandum cited
as support evidence propaganda from highly partisan
sources.

The Biden Department of Education sought to repeal
religious-liberty protections for faith-based
organizations on college campuses. The Biden Equal
Employment Opportunity Commission sought to force
Christians to affirm radical transgender ideology
against their faith. And the Biden Department of Health
and Human Services sought to drive Christians who do
not conform to certain beliefs on sexual orientation
and gender identity out of the foster-care system. The
Biden Administration declared March 31, 2024--Easter
Sunday--as “Transgender Day of Visibility.”

In this atmosphere of anti-Christian government,
hostility and vandalism against Christian churches and
places of worship surged, with the number of such
identified acts in 2023 exceeding by more than eight
times the

number from 2018. Catholic churches and institutions
have been aggressively targeted with hundreds of acts
of hostility, violence, and vandalism.

My Administration will not tolerate anti-Christian
weaponization of government or unlawful conduct
targeting Christians. The law protects the freedom of
Americans and groups of Americans to practice their
faith in peace, and my Administration will enforce the
law and protect these freedoms. My Administration will
ensure that any unlawful and improper conduct,
policies, or practices that target Christians are
identified, terminated, and rectified.

Sec. 2. Establishing a Task Force to Eradicate Anti-
Christian Bias. (a) There is hereby established within
the Department of Justice the Task Force to Eradicate
Anti-Christian Bias (Task Force).

    (b) The Attorney General shall serve as Chair of
the Task Force.
    (c) In addition to the Chair, the Task Force shall
consist of the following other members:

(i) the Secretary of State;

(ii) the Secretary of the Treasury;

(iii) the Secretary of Defense;

(iv) the Secretary of Labor;

(v) the Secretary of Health and Human Services;

(vi) the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development;

(vii) the Secretary of Education;

(viii) the Secretary of Veterans Affairs;

(ix) the Secretary of Homeland Security;

(x) the Director of the Office of Management and Budget;

(xi) Representative of the United States of America to the United Nations;

(xii) the Administrator of the Small Business Administration;

(xiii) the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation;

(xiv) the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy;

(xv) the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency;

(xvi) the Chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission; and

(xvii) the heads of such other executive departments, agencies, and offices
that the Chair may, from time to time, invite to participate.

Sec. 3. Task Force Functions. (a) The Task Force shall
meet as required by the Chair and shall take
appropriate action to:

(i) review the activities of all executive departments and agencies
(agencies), including the Department of State, the Department of Justice,
including the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Department of Labor, the
Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Education, the
Department of Homeland Security, and the Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission, over the previous Administration and identify any unlawful
anti-Christian policies, practices, or conduct by an agency contrary to the
purpose and policy of this order;

(ii) recommend to the head of the relevant agency steps to revoke or
terminate any violative policies, practices, or conduct identified under
subsection (3)(a)(i) of this section and remedial actions to fulfill the
purpose and policy of this order;

(iii) share information and develop strategies to protect the religious
liberties of Americans and advance the purpose and policy of this order;

(iv) solicit information and ideas from a broad range of individuals and
groups, including Americans affected by anti-Christian conduct, faith-based
organizations, and State, local, and Tribal governments, in order to ensure
that its work is informed by a broad spectrum of ideas and experiences;

(v) identify deficiencies in existing laws and enforcement and regulatory
practices that have contributed to unlawful anti-Christian governmental or
private conduct and recommend to the relevant agency head, or recommend to
the President, through the Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and the
Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy, as applicable, appropriate
actions that agencies may take to remedy failures to fully enforce the law
against acts of anti-Christian hostility, vandalism, and violence; and

(vi) recommend to the President, through the Deputy Chief of Staff for
Policy and the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy, any
additional Presidential or legislative action necessary to rectify past
improper anti-Christian conduct, protect religious liberty, or otherwise
fulfill the purpose and policy of this order.

    (b) In order to advise the President regarding its
work and assist the President in formulating future
policy, the Task Force shall submit to the President,
through the Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and the
Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy:

(i) a report within 120 days from the date of this order regarding the Task
Force's initial work;

(ii) a report within 1 year from the date of this order that summarizes the
Task Force's work; and

(iii) a final report upon the dissolution of the Task Force.

Sec. 4. Administration. (a) The heads of agencies
shall, to the extent permitted by law, upon the request
of the Chair, provide the Task Force with any
information required by the Task Force for the purpose
of carrying out its functions.

    (b) The Department of Justice shall provide such
funding and administrative and technical support as the
Task Force may require, to the extent permitted by law
and as authorized by existing appropriations.

Sec. 5. Termination. The Task Force shall terminate 2
years from the date of this order unless extended by
the President.

Sec. 6. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order
shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:

(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or
the head thereof; or

(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget
relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.

    (b) This order shall be implemented consistent with
applicable law and subject to the availability of
appropriations.

    (c) This order is not intended to, and does not,
create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural,
enforceable at law or in equity by any party against
the United States, its departments, agencies, or
entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any
other person.

    (Presidential Sig.)

THE WHITE HOUSE,

    February 6, 2025.